[Geoserver-devel] help new developer

please i sent mail to the geoserver mailing list yasterday and no answer come to me.
i’ll reapeat it … so plese anybody who can help me send me mail.

my graduation project is to build GIS system about cairo city to help user to navigate thier distenations. the project will be developed in mobile using j2me.

my quesions is very simple :
1-how geoserver can help me to perform it?
2-can the geoserver ditinguish the type of building like resturant ,hospitals , ets…?
3- what is the drawing map program i need to paint my map whith this buildings and will be understood by geoserver?


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amr qura ha scritto:

please i sent mail to the geoserver mailing list yasterday and no answer come to me.
i'll reapeat it ...... so plese anybody who can help me send me mail.

We received the mail, but more or less none of the geoserver hackers
are active during the weekend. Most of us use/develop Geoserver within
our daily job.

my graduation project is to build GIS system about cairo city to help user to navigate thier distenations. the project will be developed in mobile using j2me.
my quesions is very simple :
1-how geoserver can help me to perform it?

Hum... well, you'll need a mapping component, a routing component, and some kind of search engine. I never developed such an app, but
I guess you can:
* user geoserver and postgis on the server side
* solve the routing part with pgRouting (http://www.postlbs.org/postlbs-cms/en/node/7), there you can find
a geocoder too. Or you can use the gt2-graph package in geotools, if
you have custom needs or prefer to code in java.
* generate maps using the wms protocol and geoserver

2-can the geoserver ditinguish the type of building like resturant ,hospitals , ets..?

Sure, geoserver will use whatever column you provide in your tables
and can use it both for searches and in map styling.

3- what is the drawing map program i need to paint my map whith this buildings and will be understood by geoserver?

Geoserver is your painting program. You'll have to specify how
painting is to be performed using SLD (styled layer descriptor).

Please, have a look at geoserver's docs for details:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOSdoc/user

Hope this helps.
Cheers
Andrea