GeoExt v0 Welcome to MapServer — MapServer 5.6.6 documentation Spatial Horizons » Blog Archive » Using MapServer (1) - 10 Minute Tutorial May 19th, 2007 UPDATE: This post was originally posted in May 2007 but since has been updated to cover the more recent release of Mapserver version 5.0.0. Most of our recent posts have focused on topics relating more to the components of a mapping application then on the maps and data. This post begins the first of several posts discussing free and open source mapping software applications. After introducing each software, we will explore various ways to create applications around them. Introduction to MapServer One of the most popular open source GIS applications is MapServer. “MapServer is an Open Source development environment for building spatially-enabled internet applications. Create Your Own Web Mapping Site in 10 Minutes We just need to setup MapServer to run on a local machine for now and the best way to do that is to use MapServer for Windows (MS4W). Congratulations! Continue to part 2
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Mapnik C++/Python GIS Toolkit | Welcome Google Maps and ASP.NET What makes the service even better is the availability of the Google Maps API (Application Programming Interface) as a free Beta service. The API allows developers to embed Google Maps in their custom applications. It also allows them to overlay information on the map and customize the map to their needs. The API by itself is pretty straightforward and easy to use; however, it requires the developer to have a good command of JavaScript because it extensively relies on client-side Java scripting. Before we get into the details of the ASP.NET control, let's look at the basics of the Google Maps API. Google represents an instance of the map as a "GMap" object. A large control for scrolling and zooming Similar to the previous one, but eliminates the zoom scale bar Includes only Zooming controls Once the map has been set up, it is possible to overlay information on the map. This is the class representation of a geographical point and exposes latitude and longitude as its two properties.
Home | AAG ZOO Project - Open WPS Platform Creating an Interactive Map in ASP.NET 2.0 Using SharpMap. Free source code and programming help Download source files - 60.5 KB Introduction Showing maps on the web is becoming more and more common. Background Although this article is not meant as a big tutorial on how the Geographic Information Systems and the map data work, a few primers are necessary if you are new to this area. Much of the map data we know are just a simple representation of the world as we know it. The biggest problem is often to get hold on the data (especially the good and the detailed ones). One thing you have to be aware of is that even if you get data from different sources they are stored in the same coordinate system, datum and projection. The most well-known coordinate system is the longitude/latitude system representing a coordinate anywhere on the earth using decimal degrees. SharpMap is an engine that helps you render the vectordata onto a bitmap that can be stored on the disk or sent to a browser. SharpMap is free and can be downloaded from its webpage. Using the Code And that's it ! History
Grants and Awards Resources Finding Funds some links to external resources of interest for geography and related fields General Directories Chronicle of Philanthropy The Foundation Center AAAS Science Magazine's GrantsNet sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/funding Financial Aid GuideOnlineSchools.org Guide to Financial Aid www.onlineschools.org/financial-aid/ Foundations Alfred P. Fellowships American Geographical Society Library Short-term Fellowships www4.uwm.edu/libraries/AGSL/fellowships.cfm American Geographical Society Council Fellowships Proposal Writing Basics Chapter 11, Preparing Competitive Research Grant Proposals, Aspiring Academics (2009 www.aag.org/cs/education/edge/books The Foundation Center’s Proposal Writing Short Course Advice for Graduate Students from About.com
ZOO Project - Open WPS Platform ZOO is a WPS (Web Processing Service) open source project released under a MIT/X-11 style license . It provides an OGC WPS compliant developer-friendly framework to create and chain WPS Web services. ZOO is made of three parts: ZOO Kernel : A powerful server-side C Kernel which makes it possible to manage and chain Web services coded in different programming languages. ZOO Services Introduction Example ZOO Services ZCFG Reference ZOO API introduction ZOO API examples ZOO API classes ZOO Kernel introduction ZOO is based on a 'WPS Service Kernel' which constitutes the ZOO's core system (aka ZOO Kernel). A ZOO service is a link composed of a metadata file (.zcfg) and the code for the corresponding implementation. The ZOO API is a simple and concise JavaScript library designed to call and chain the ZOO Services easily, and adds the capability to define logic in the chaining of your ZOO Services.
Get geographical location (geolocation) by IP address using jQuery Today I came across this post called “IP Address Geolocation Javascript API : JSON”. The author provides you with a free geolocation query URL. The API returns the geographical location of the queried IP address with some additional information such as: Update: the URL has been changed! The JSON geolocation querying API’s address is: And the great thing is, you can identify your website visitor’s IP and Geo location by simply querying the API without any parameters like this: Knowing your users’ IP and/or location, you might add a behavior to your website that is specific to some location. Anyway, here is a sample jQuery code to query the API: // Build the URL to queryvar url = " Here we are not specifying any IP address in the url variable that is why it is getting current user’s data.
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