[Freegis-list] Losing GIS solution...

[Silke Reimer]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 01:53:52PM -0600, Adam Gautier wrote:
> Yes, I am in the US.  I have been thinking about the Tiger database.  One
> of my problems is that the data for the tiger database is not in an
> immediatly usable format(i.e. it still needs to be parsed into a
> database).  Is there a project that has already parsed tiger into
> something like PostGIS? Are their parsers for the dataformat?

Probably somebody has already converted the Tiger data into another
format. Otherwise I would suggest to use gdal/ogr [1] which has among
others a driver for Tiger data and PostGIS/Postgresql.

> 
> > Adam Gautier wrote:
> >> My company and I have received word that we will be losing our
> >> webservices
> >> based GIS provider.  We have an application that requires mapping and
> >> routing.    I am looking for advice on cobling together open-source
> >> solutions to meet these needs, Any help would be appreciated.
> >>
> >> High-Level Requirements (I can elaborate more if needed):
> >>
> >> Requirement 1: Mapping - Being able to draw a map(a road map) while
> >> starting from a address, city, state, zip.  Dumping out via jpeg or
> >> better
> >> yet png would be best.

The UMN MapServer [2] would be the most popular choice though you could
try others like deegree [3] or the GeoServer [4].

> >>
> >> Requirement 2: Routing - Getting directions(turn-by-turn driving
> >> direction) between two points.

The one I know which has even been adapted for webpublishing is
bbbike [5]. It is based on data of Berlin but it should be possible
to replace the data by your own.

Greetings,

	Silke


[1] http://www.gdal.org/ogr
[2] http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/index.html
[3] http://deegree.sourceforge.net/
[4] http://geoserver.sourceforge.net/
[5] http://bbbike.sourceforge.net

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