Feb

29

Do you get errors in the mapscript c# tutorial?…

Filed Under GIS, MapServer, PostGIS, devs, .NET, Tutorials, MapServer Tutorial for C# mapscript (ASP .NET), Windows | 6 Comments

…well, this is the solution to your problems (at least I hope so).

I am continuing receiving emails from people in despair that cannot successfully use this tutorial. I am sorry but I cannot answer to all this emails, so I thought to write this post in order to allow people to configure it correctly.

BTW, this demo is still working since 2 years without any problems, and the code there is just the same you can download from this blog. So it must work also for you ;-)

So if you just cannot use it, this is a check list:

If you receive the "Unable to load dll (mapscript)" error, look at this article from Tamas Szekeres (the mapscript c# mantainer).

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Feb

21

A day with FeatureServer #1

Filed Under GIS, PostGIS, devs, Windows, Ubuntu, Apache, FeatureServer, QGIS, uDig, gvSIG, Python, WFS, WMS | 6 Comments

Some friends already spoke me well about FeatureServer by MetaCarta in the last weeks, so I already was waiting for having a bit of time to get started with it. Then James posted this on his blog, and my curiosity was definitely fired.

So I decided to spend a day for installing and testing it, without thinking of the lack of documentation (FeatureServer is still a young project, so no wonder here if the only way to get infos is digging in the source code and posting to the mailing list). The day I considered to spend on it then spawned to more and more hours that I could imagine, and given my actually very busy schedule at my job, I had to find free hours during the night and the weekend. I then decided to write this post to help people in getting started with FeatureServer in a quicker way that was for me.

FeatureServer is a simple and powerfull RESTful-Pythonic WFS server.
Only from this last sentence there are 3 very important things that made me like (and you should - also) FeatureServer before even getting started with it:

  • Its RESTful architecture
  • It is written in Python, and having chosen Plone as our CMS here at my office I am starting to like this language very much
  • I truly believe that WFS is the way to go for remotely editing GIS data

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