Do you have your own maps? Like do you have base layer data of streets, parks, place names, water, ect. ? If so, then yes, you can put that in GeoServer and it will serve it up. But getting good data is generally the problem.
Chris
Achraf El Kashef wrote:
what i want to display is something VERY similar to this
http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/googlemaps/examples/map7.htm
but with my OWN maps..
no, the data is not live, i have another interface to connect to the device, grab the data, and store it in a MySQL DB.....so all my work will be on the data from DB, which does not change quite often
thanks,
Achraf El Kashef
On 4/27/07, *Chris Holmes* <cholmes@anonymised.com <mailto:cholmes@anonymised.com>> wrote:
If you're short on time and just want non-google maps data, you can also
just use http://sigma.openplans.org as your base layer. See the FAQ:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOS/GeoServer+Demo+FAQ on how to set
up OpenLayers (http://openlayers.org) to use the same base layer.
If you have existing data as shapefiles or imagery, then yes, that's
what GeoServer is for. The tutorials are listed here:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOSDOC/3+Tutorials Quickstart and
User Tutorial Shapefile should get you started.
Chris
Brent Owens wrote:
> Is the data streaming (live)? Meaning, is is coming in every so often
> and you have to update the data? Or do you manually enter the data?
>
> You can definitely use geoserver to do this. How you get it into
> geoserver depends on the client side implementation of your data
input
> (is it a web interface or a program on a local machine?)
> If it is a web interface, you can build WFS insert feature requests
> and send the data to geoserver that way. This is probably the
easiest.
> You would do this with a small AJAX call every time an update
came in.
> After each insert, the data will be updated and the next time you
> refresh the map, you will see your new features.
>
> Learning WFS will take a few days at least, just to get a handle
on it
> and get some data going back and forth. But it isn't all that bad.
> There are example wfs requests in geoserver under the demo page. You
> should be able to just copy and use the example insert request (of
> course formatted to fit your existing dataset that is living in
> geoserver) and send it using AJAX to geoserver.
>
> I hope that helps.
>
> On 4/27/07, Achraf El Kashef <achraf.elkashef@anonymised.com
<mailto:achraf.elkashef@anonymised.com>> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> i am working on a web application that displays GPS route data
from GPS
>> devices on a map
>> i currently use Google Maps API to convert the data coming from
the device
>> to the XML that matches google maps and display it.
>>
>> is it possible to do the same(or similar) using my OWN digital
map and use
>> geoserver to display the date?
>> if yes, can you point me to some starting points and
tutorials/examples?
>>
>> its for a college project and am really running short on time 
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> --
>> Achraf El Kashef
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