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GIS Web Mapping?

Posted by Cliff on from the does-this-exist? dept.

muengineer asks: "We're looking for a solution that will allow us to put a zoomable, panning campus map online, with clickable hyperlinks, but not fall into the trap of raster images with image maps. Preferably, I'd like to use something vector based, that can import our GIS data. Although there are solutions out there from companies like Autodesk and Intergraph, unfortunately they appear to be intimately tied to Windows NT as the server. Is there anything out there that will let me use Linux?"

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  1. links to resources by maphew · · Score: 2

    Try the Map Server section at dmoz.org for a list o' links.

    If you are a developer look at these OGDI specs, and this library for reading shape files which might work well with some of the toolkits listed at freegis.org.

    You should also cross post this question to the GRASS (grasslist@baylor.edu) and Remotesensing.org (osrs@remotesensing.org) mailing lists.

    cheers,

    -matt

  2. VML by maphew · · Score: 2

    Interestingly, on another thread today I found a site for the Vector Markup Language which looks promising.

    The same conversation also lead to the university of Leicester's Virtual Field Course