Re: SOT: Serving GIS data on the cheap.

2009-01-21 Thread Ian Skinner
Ian Skinner wrote: Anybody out there work with serving GIS data on a website. Best candidate I have found to date to export GIS data into raster tiles or KMZ|KML data for use with Google Maps and|or Google Earth. http://www.globalmapper.com/

SOT: Serving GIS data on the cheap.

2009-01-20 Thread Ian Skinner
Anybody out there work with serving GIS data on a website. We have our own, custom GIS data and we would like to serve it on our website. I have looked an using the Google Map API and it can serve up custom data, if you can get it 'tiled'. But I am finding that it can be very challenging to

Re: SOT: Serving GIS data on the cheap.

2009-01-20 Thread Rob Parkhill
We have plans to do such a thing. We are looking at Manifold. It comes with a IMS built in, and it is very inexpensive (relative to 'other' solutions). http://www.manifold.net/ Rob On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Ian Skinner h...@ilsweb.com wrote: Anybody out there work with serving GIS

Re: SOT: Serving GIS data on the cheap.

2009-01-20 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Ian Skinner wrote: We have our own, custom GIS data and we would like to serve it on our website. I have looked an using the Google Map API and it can serve up custom data, if you can get it 'tiled'. But I am finding that it can be very challenging to get

Re: SOT: Serving GIS data on the cheap.

2009-01-20 Thread Ian Skinner
Jochem van Dieten wrote: In what format do you have your GIS data? What do you want to do with it, just make it into pictures or overlay it on somebody elses (Google, Yahoo etc.) dataset? Jochem I am not sure what format exactly our GIS is in. I know our cartographer uses some level of

Re: SOT: Serving GIS data on the cheap.

2009-01-20 Thread Ian Skinner
Rob Parkhill wrote: We have plans to do such a thing. We are looking at Manifold. It comes with a IMS built in, and it is very inexpensive (relative to 'other' solutions). http://www.manifold.net/ Rob Thanks for the link, I'm reading now and the first thing I do see is a price tag much

Re: SOT: Serving GIS data on the cheap.

2009-01-20 Thread Rob Parkhill
Ian Manifold comes with a 'web server' or at least a version of the program that will serve up maps from a specified directory. You have to put Manifold onto a computer and then set it up with your map data. As I read it, it seems relatively straight forward (although I am sure that there are

Re: SOT: Serving GIS data on the cheap.

2009-01-20 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Ian Skinner wrote: I am not sure what format exactly our GIS is in. I know our cartographer uses some level of ESRI's desktop GIS tools. I am trying to get more specifics from him. At the least we would like to have something like a Google Map (but we are

Re: SOT: Serving GIS data on the cheap.

2009-01-20 Thread Carl Von Stetten
Ian, You might look into MapGuide Open Source http://mapguide.osgeo.org Carl Anybody out there work with serving GIS data on a website. We have our own, custom GIS data and we would like to serve it on our website. I have looked an using the Google Map API and it can serve up custom

Re: SOT: Serving GIS data on the cheap.

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Hastings
Jochem van Dieten wrote: Have you checked MapServer: http://mapserver.org/ yes, mapserver would be my first choice for a free host your own web-based spatial data server. it has many options that allows you to be pretty flexible in how you build out your front-ends (simple, WMS, tiled, etc.).