[GRASS5] grass on the web?

GRASS GRASS developer
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What are the best methods for interacting with GRASS via a web interface?

David

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Hamish,

I've been looking info MapServer for navigating in a mapquest-like web application, but it's rather cumbersome. In a different stand-alone application, I've been able to use the PNG Graphics Driver for GRASS. It works great, so I was thinking I could conceivably do the same for a web server. I can call GRASS executables from a PERL script and display the result as an image file in a web browser. I would imagine this would be similar to mapquest, and it seems much simpler and more straightforward. Am I misunderstanding something that mapserver does better than I could accomplish with a GRASS/PERL scheme?

David

On Apr 22, 2004, at 9:30 PM, Hamish wrote:

What are the best methods for interacting with GRASS via a web
interface?

GRASSlinks (there are several flavours):

http://pnwpest.org/glinks/index.html
  (the Spearfish dataset may be of interest [Mount Rushmore, USA])

http://www.agcrc.csiro.au/4dgm/grasslinks/

http://www.regis.berkeley.edu/grasslinks/
http://www.regis.berkeley.edu/glinks/about_gl.html

UMN MapSever:

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/

http://grass.itc.it/start.html
  (click on "Start" demos)

I think the difference is GRASSlinks is more for dynamic GIS queries and
MapServer is more for queries of static maps (eg mapquest.com)..

There's a Java frontend out there somewhere as well, maybe that is
useful.

Hamish