Re: [Xastir] Open source mapserver

2006-10-31 Thread Gerry Creager
Using OGR, it handles considerably more than shapefiles. Using GDAL, it handles a significant number of rasters and georeferences them. Next question? Note that the radar WMS data are served via a Mapserver instance. I use PostGIS for some of the geo-data, instead of shapes, shapes for oth

Re: [Xastir] Open source mapserver

2006-10-31 Thread Gerry Creager
It serves both... and WCS, as well as SOS. Curt Mills wrote: On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Stephen Brown Jr wrote: I found out about this today: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ And I have seen it in action many times over and not even realized it! My company uses this for an application we run. Here's

Re: [Xastir] Open source mapserver

2006-10-30 Thread Dick C. Reichenbach
From what I've read (although it's been a while) the UMN mapserver uses basic shapefile data from ERSI. It's no different from using the built in shapefile support. Dick R. - KC8OBZ Curt Mills wrote: On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Stephen Brown Jr wrote: I found out about this today: http://map

Re: [Xastir] Open source mapserver

2006-10-30 Thread Curt Mills
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Stephen Brown Jr wrote: > I found out about this today: > > http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ > > And I have seen it in action many times over and not even realized it! My > company uses this for an application we run. > > Here's my question, I am a complete newbie when it come

Re: [Xastir] Open source mapserver

2006-10-30 Thread Gerry Creager
Actually, there's several ways. Easiest: take the Xastir output and drive a database with position and timestamp info, and then plot it on Mapserver. Not always what you'd want but it's certainly effective. Alternative B) is to download AE5PL's JavAPRSsrvr code... the stuff that drives the A

[Xastir] Open source mapserver

2006-10-30 Thread Stephen Brown Jr
I found out about this today: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ And I have seen it in action many times over and not even realized it! My company uses this for an application we run. Here's my question, I am a complete newbie when it comes to mapping software etc. How could something like this be u