The goal of this page is to demonstrate how to configure a few different open source GIS packages on your own server. By following the Basic steps, you will end up with a system with puts your source data (Shapefiles and GeoTIFFS) into a nice mapping interface that is available from the web.

Basic Configuration

Requirements: The base GIS software installed on Ubuntu (Instructions here for setting up such a system for yourself). Alternatively you should be able to follow along if you have MS4W on Windows.

1) Make your data available by WMS

2) Make your WMS available in a user friendly mapping interface

Additional Examples

1) PostGIS Example?

  • Accomplish robust GIS analyses in PostGIS, and map your results on the fly

2) FeatureServer Example?

  • A RESTful interface to your vector data. Post/Get your data to multiple DataSources? (shapefiles, postgis, whatever), and in multiple formats (geojson, kml, georss, etc)

3) TileCache Example?

  • Cache a copy of your (or any) WMS to ensure speedy tile delivery to your users