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Purpose of BostonGIS

BostonGIS is a testbed for GIS and Web Mapping solutions utilizing open source, freely available and/or open gis technologies. We will be using mostly Boston, Massachusetts data to provide mapping and spatial database examples.

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Desktop GIS
External Data
GIS Events and Groups
GIS SDKs and Frameworks
MapWindow GIS more ...
GeoServer more ...
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GDAL: Geospatial Data Abstraction Layer more ...
DM Solutions - Maptools more ...
Mapserver

Comes in two flavors - standard CGI that utilizes html templates to define the general layout of the map interface and a specialized map file to define the GIS layers. Second flavor is an API called Mapscript which also uses the Map file format for predefining layers, but also provides more malleable functionality that can be easily called from languages such as PHP, Python, Java, and ASP.NET (VB, C#, Mono note currently threading issues with running it in .NET).

Mapserver (formerly UMN Mapserver) is a great server because it is fairly light weight and can run pretty much anywhere under any webserver known to man and any OS known to man. It probably has one of the if not most comprehensive support for various datasources via native drivers and the OGR/GDAL drivers. Common datasources supported include ESRI Shape, PostGIS, Oracle Spatial, ArcSDE, MapInfo, text files, ODBC, prelimary support for MySQL spatial. It supports its native Mapserver protocol as well as WMS, WFS, WCS OGC standards.



External Resources
Glossary
GIS Blogs Around Boston
External GIS Blogs
External Papers Articles
GIS Quick Guides and References
OpenStreetMap and OpenLayers Tutorials
PostGIS, pgRouting, and PostgreSQL Tutorials
Part 1: Getting Started With PostGIS: An almost Idiot's Guide more ...
pgRouting: Loading OpenStreetMap with Osm2Po and route querying more ...
Part 1: Getting Started With PostGIS: An almost Idiot's Guide (PostGIS 2.0) more ...
OSCON 2009: Tips and Tricks for Writing PostGIS Spatial Queries more ...
PGCon2009: PostGIS 1.4, PostgreSQL 8.4 Spatial Analysis Queries, Building Geometries, Open Jump more ...
PLR Part 3: PL/R and Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) RGDAL more ...
PostGIS Nearest Neighbor: A Generic Solution - Much Faster than Previous Solution more ...
Solving the Nearest Neighbor Problem in PostGIS more ...
PLR Part 2: PL/R and PostGIS more ...
PLR Part 1: Up and Running with PL/R (PLR) in PostgreSQL: An almost Idiot's Guide more ...
Part 3: PostGIS Loading Data from Non-Spatial Sources more ...
Part 2: Introduction to Spatial Queries and SFSQL with PostGIS more ...
Miscellaneous Tutorials/Cheatsheets/Examples
SpatiaLite Tutorials
Boston External Map Examples
SQL Server 2008 Tutorials
UMN Mapserver Tutorials
General Commentary
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