[Freegis-list] city bus GIS

[Scott Davis]

> From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni at jidanni.org>
> Date: February 20, 2007 1:06:32 PM MST
> To: freegis-list at intevation.de
> Subject: [Freegis-list] city bus GIS
>
>
> Let's say I want to make a Central Taiwan bus web GIS to compliment my
> Central Taiwan bus wiki, http://taizhongbus.jidanni.org/
>
> The bus companies and governments are willing to give me the data,
> so what Free Software would you recommend to make a lean clean web
> bus route lookup system, where even GNU/Linux browsing users would not
> be at any disadvantage, etc.?
>
> I am planning on buying
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webmapping/
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mappinghks/
> so maybe the answer lies in there anyway.
>
> I suppose the http://fwtools.maptools.org/ components will be
> involved. OK, I will learn them here on Debian sid.
>
> P.S., WikiMedia is a good match for route/bus stop lists
> http://jidanni.org/comp/wiki/article-category.html
>

At the risk of shameless promotion, you might want to check out my  
book, GIS for Web Developers. (Available now in PDF, soon in paper:  
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/sdgis/)

I walk you through setting up a web-based GIS solution step by step.  
We download free data and free desktop viewers like uDig. We discuss  
projections and CLI tools like GDAL to reproject your data. We  
install PostGIS (a spatial database). We install GeoServer and  
discuss standards-based web interfaces from the OGC (Open Geospatial  
Consortium) like WMS and WFS. We wrap up talking about cool  
JavaScript "Slippy Map" frameworks like MapBuilder and OpenLayers.  
Both allow your users to drag the maps around in a browser like  
Google Maps.

Good luck with the website. It sounds cool.

Cheers,
Scott Davis
scott at aboutGroovy.com