Hi,
Good news! I look forward to what TOPP can do to fill in the gap
left by the Census Bureau.
All this should evenutally flow into a "geo-wiki"-like community-based
editing and sharing system. There will be more discussion as things
progress - our first goal is to just get a very simple site up.
Between this and the Drupal angle, it looks like community
mapping/GIS is on the horizon. It is interesting to think about the
opensource development communities crossing over into the data building
side. Google mashups show the way it might evolve but OGC WMS/WFS is a great
deal more flexible than Google.
I'll have to look at MapBuilder. I've done all my interfaces using
svg since element level event listeners give it a high level of granularity
and it seems better suited to WFS even though it can incorporate WMS with
<image/> elements. However, MapBuilder seems to be more cross browser
capable at present.
randy
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Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 6:56 PM
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Subject: RE: [Geoserver-users] Census Tigerline data and GeoServer
TOPP is planning on putting up a bunch of datasets available via WFS and
WMS. TIGER being one of them. Our first version will have VMAP0,
TIGER 2004se, and a bunch of GNIS (geographic name information system)
datasets. You'll be able to do geocoding (USA) and search-by-feature
name for the whole world.
We're almost certainly going to be using mapbuilder as the GUI (which
you might of guessed by the fact that we've been improving
geoserver-mapbuilder integration lately).
I'm *extreamly* excited by this. A lot of the fine-tuning and
enhancements of geoserver/geotools that I've been doing over the last
several months have all been so that people can easily setup a large
Geoserver site and have it (a) rock-solid stable (2) easy to setup (3)
have decent performance.
Our long term goals are to make it trivially easy for people to put maps
on their website, store-modify-share their own datasets, and build open
spatial applications. We'll be doing a lot of this through [free]
hosted services so it should be assessible for everyone. All the code
will, of course, be available for download if anyone wants to host
their own site.
All this should evenutally flow into a "geo-wiki"-like community-based
editing and sharing system. There will be more discussion as things
progress - our first goal is to just get a very simple site up.
Unfortunately, we ordered a machine which we've sent back to the
manufacturer serveral times because it keeps corrupting the filesystem.
We're going with a different manufacturer now.
Chris mentioned my notes on loading TIGER into postgis - I wouldn't read
those until the dataset is loaded since I'll be fixing them up. They're
currently just 'notes' that I wrote for myself.
I'll keep everyone posted when we've got something to show.
dave
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