On Friday, June 1, 2012 4:30:41 AM UTC-7, chris mollis wrote: > > Right.. using REST calls is the way to do that. You'll basically need to > do any complex geo queries/functions in PostGIS and then return vectors of > lon/lat points which you then display with the MapKit apis. > > On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Charles Galpin wrote: > >> Hi Ahmad >> >> You won't connect to the database directly. Depending on what the data is >> you can use a variety of methods. Simple REST style calls to a web server >> which runs code to query the database and return the data could be >> sufficient, but for anything more complex I suggest using a WMS server like >> geoserver or mapserver. >> >> If you want your app to run on multiple platforms consider doing it in >> html 5. >> >> hth >> charles >> > CartoDB is also a good choice that is worth some investigation:
http://cartodb.com/ They do a great job of wrapping a web-accessible API around PostGIS tables. The source code for the entire system is also freely available on GitHub---but it does take a bit of work to unbox, configure and maintain by yourself. -Charlie
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