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Overview•Components of GIS
•Finding GIS Data
•Displaying your Data (web)
•GIS in Plone
• Data and ZCO
• Displaying w/PrimaGIS
GIS on the Web
What is Mapserver?
•An open source development environment for building spatially-enabled internet applications
•Rendering engine behind numerous web mapping applications, including PrimaGIS
•Can be run as cgi excecutable, or from one of the many ‘mapscript’ flavors
•http://ms.gis.umn.edu/
PCL? ZCO? PrimaGIS?
•Python Cartographic Library – Author: Sean Gillies•Package of modules for rendering GIS data •Currently uses Mapserver as rendering engine
•Cartographic Objects for Zope – Author: Sean Gillies•Zope product that uses atop PCL •System Admins can bring GIS data into Zope
•PrimaGIS – Author: Kai Hänninen•A collaborative web mapping application for Plone•Site Admins can create maps w/ZCO components, and spatial
extensions for available Archetypes