Beginning MapServer: Open Source GIS Development

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Beginning MapServer: Open Source GIS Development is the first book of its kind. It offers a comprehensive introduction to MapServer, the development platform for integrating mapping technology into Internet applications. You'll learn how to build and extend dynamic applications using popular languages like PHP, Perl, and Python.

After a thorough introduction to installation and configuration, you'll uncover basic MapServer topics and examples. You'll also learn about advanced MapServer features, and how to query and incorporate dynamic data into your application. The book culminates with the creation of an actual mapping application.
About the Author
Bill Kropla has almost 20 years of experience working in information technology, and he has spent the last several years steeped in the wireless industry, developing wireless mapping solutions for tracking shipping vehicles. Bill holds a bachelor's of science degree in physics from the University of Manitoba, and a master's degree in electrical engineering and applied mathematics, also from the University of Manitoba. In addition, he holds an omnibus patent for methods, hardware, and software used in the wireless industry.

Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Problematic if you are working on a Windows platform, November 8, 2007
By Curtis Bohlen "Watershed Consultant" (Yarmouth, ME USA) - See all my reviews
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I purchased this book to help with developing a simple map-enabled web page running on a Windows computer. The book proved very difficult to use in that context. If you are planning on working on a windows computer, you should be aware of some potential shortcomings.

In the spirit of full disclosure, I have considerable GIS experience, but little experience with web development.

The book assumes that you are operating not only on a UNIX-based platform, but also that you will operate in a particular "development environment". The author does provide full instructions for building that development environment on a Unix machine, so if you are starting from scratch, everything will work as described.

However....

You can not readily build the same "development environment" on a Windows computer. I installed a version of MS4W ("Mapserver 4 Windows" on my computer. MS4W is a labor saving package that rapidly sets up a web server and installs most of the other open source software one would like to have available for using Mapsource effectively. Unfortunately, the installation differs from the "development environment" assumed by the book.

As a result, there are MANY small but significant differences that crop up in developing the example applications given in the book. Many of these are simply differences in the way files are named or in the structure of the directory tree, but they are annoying and difficult to track down. it took me several DAYS of work and repeated searches for help on on-line MAPSERVER forums to figure things out and get the first several example applications running. I still have not managed to get about half of the examples up and running.

That said, the book offers a nice introduction to many of the central concepts used in Mapserver. It has a good reference section that allows you to look up Mapserver commands, etc.

Ultimately, I was able to develop the simple web-based applications I was after. This book contributed to that, but only after considerable frustration. Several Mapserver tutorials are available on-line. Some are specifically geared to Windows-based systems. They certainly offer a less tortuous, if sometimes less complete, path to getting Mapserver working on a Windows-based system.

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O'Reilly Web Mapping Illustrated

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Developers who want to publish maps on the web often discover that commercial tools cost too much and hunting down the free tools scattered across Internet can use up too much of your time and resources. Web Mapping Illustrated shows you how to create maps, even interactive maps, with free tools, including MapServer, OpenEV, GDAL/OGR, and PostGIS. It also explains how to find, collect, understand, use, and share mapping data, both over the traditional Web and using OGC-standard services like WFS and WMS.

With the help of the Internet and accompanying tools, creating and publishing online maps has become easier and rich with options. A city guide web site can use maps to show the location of restaurants, museums, and art venues. A business can post a map for reaching its offices. The state government can present a map showing average income by area. Developers who want to publish maps on the web often discover that commercial tools cost too much and hunting down the free tools scattered across Internet can use up too much of your time and resources. Web Mapping Illustrated shows you how to create maps, even interactive maps, with free tools, including MapServer, OpenEV, GDAL/OGR, and PostGIS. It also explains how to find, collect, understand, use, and share mapping data, both over the traditional Web and using OGC-standard services like WFS and WMS. Mapping is a growing field that goes beyond collecting and analyzing GIS data. Web Mapping Illustrated shows how to combine free geographic data, GPS, and data management tools into one resource for your mapping information needs so you don't have to lose your way while searching for it. Remember the fun you had exploring the world with maps? Experience the fun again with Web Mapping Illustrated. This book will take you on a direct route to creating valuable maps.

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GEMCOM SURPAC 6.0

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Gemcom provides mining software spanning exploration through production management. The Company’s software enables its clients to interpret geological deposits, develop and optimize mine designs and plans, schedule and manage production.

Gemcom enables its clients to:
* Model and interpret geological deposits
* Develop and optimize mine plans
* Schedule production
* Introduce best practice processes into mining operations, supported by change management programs and a reliable IT infrastructure.
* Accumulate, manage and analyse key operational data on a continuous basis to ensure consistent, predictable output.
* Link planning and operational data.
* Reconcile and analyse production pro

Gemcom’s technology:
» Exploration
» Planning and scheduling
» Production management
How can we help you?
» Mine Manager
» Mining Engineer
» Mine Geologist
» Metallurgist
» Corporate Executive
» Chief Financial Officer
» CIO/IT
» Exploration Executive
» Exploration Geologist

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MapInfo Professional v9.0 Build 42 Portable

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MapInfo Professional v9.0 Build 42 Portable

 MapInfo Professional is a powerful Microsoft Windows-based mapping application that enables business analysts and GIS professionals to easily visualize the relationships between data and geography. With MapInfo Professional, you can perform sophisticated and detailed data analysis by leveraging the power of location. Including location in your decision making and daily operations can help you increase revenue, lower costs, boost efficiency and improve services.
Use MapInfo Professional to:

- Create highly detailed maps to enhance presentations and aid in decision making
- Reveal patterns and trends in your data that may otherwise be impossible to see in spreadsheets and charts
- Perform sophisticated and extensive data analysis
- Understand customer and marketplace demographics
- Manage geographically based assets, such as stores, people and property
- Plan logistics and prepare for emergency response

Run it from any device, no installation required. All in English

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ArcSDE 9.0 SQLServer

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ArcSDE is an application server that facilitates storing and
managing spatial data (raster, vector, and survey) in a DBMS and
makes the data available to many applications. ArcSDE allows
you to manage spatial data in one of four commercial databases
(IBM® DB2®, Informix®, Microsoft® SQL Server™, and Oracle®).
ArcSDE serves data to the ArcGIS Desktop products (ArcView®,
ArcEditor™, and ArcInfo®), the ArcGIS development products
(ArcGIS Engine and ArcGIS Server), and ArcIMS® and is a key
component in managing a multiuser GIS.

Database Portability
ArcSDE provides a common model for spatial data. Using ArcSDE
data import and export utilities, you can move data from one
DBMS to another without loss of information. This portability
safeguards your data investment and is especially important in a
heterogeneous database environment. This capability allows the
most advanced geodatabase designs to be moved.

Application Portability
ArcSDE defi nes a single logical model for spatial data that is
independent of the physical data representation in the DBMS.
Since how the data is stored is transparent to the end applica-
tion, applications developed with ArcObjects™ or ArcSDE C or
Java™ application programming interface (API) will run with little
or no modifi cation regardless of the underlying DBMS spatial
data schema.

ESRI’s Data Models
GIS users need common standards to build and share data.
ArcSDE supplies both a simple relational model of points, lines,
and polygons and a sophisticated object model with support for
intelligent features, rules, and relationships—the geodatabase.
The geodatabase can be combined with the ArcGIS data models
(templates for implementing GIS projects for specifi c industries

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