Sunday, October 5, 2008

PostGIS, Geoserver and OpenLayers for a complete GIS solution

Open source GIS solutions have come a long way in the last couple of years. It is no secret that Google Earth put GIS into the hands of millions and created a huge market for GIS users. Now that people are familiar with GIS systems and are willing to use a GIS, what do you really need to make a GIS system.

What you need is a GIS database with all your geotagged information in it. The data is then served through a GIS server to a GIS client. If you wish to target web clients, you can create your own complete GIS solution using PostGIS as the GIS database, Geoserver as the GIS server and OpenLayers as an interactive web-based client.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Can u kindly mail me a simple architecture of webgis using Postgis,postgresql,geoserver,
openlayers,Apache web server and also the functionality of each of the software.My email-id is anuragiist@gmail.com