Integrating GIS & Plone

Using ZCO and PrimaGIS

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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 in three parts

•Data Collection

•Analysis

•Display

Data Collection

GIS Data

WMS / WFSDatabase

RastersShapefiles

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

More Information

•http://primagis.fi

•#zco on IRC

•josh@livniconsulting.com