Archive for the ‘WebGis’ Category
Serving your map tiles 30 times faster
Recently I’ve been experimenting with TileStache tiles caching system, which is similar to TileCache and other tile caching systems in scope. TileStache revealed itself as a powerful and flexible product and was very good to cache tiles generated with my Django-backed mapscript-powered WMS server. Caching and serving tiles with TileStache was by far faster then [...]
Category: Django , GIS , Python , Sysadmin , Tech , WebGis
2012-01-17
TileStache Vector simplify provider
This is the third part of the story that I started with part 1: Polymaps, TileStache and SVG CSS styling issues part 2: TileStache Django tiny wrapper during my experiments I wanted to reach the goal of minimize both the bandwith consuption and the number of vector coordinates that the browser needs to handle, this means that [...]
Category: GIS , Python , Tech , WebGis
2012-01-11
TileStache Django tiny wrapper
This is the second part of the story about my experiments with the wonderful TileStache that I started with TileStache and Polymaps SVG experiments. First, I would like to thank Michal for the quick patch inclusion, the Polymaps patch is still waiting for the pull and the Django admin patch is awating for somebody to [...]
Category: Django , GIS , JavaScript , Programmazione , Python , Tech , WebGis
2012-01-09
Polymaps, TileStache and SVG CSS styling issues
A few days ago I started playing with Polymaps and TileStache, two very promising WebGIS building tools. The final goal of this experiments was the integration with Django. Polymaps Polymaps is a Javascript library aimed to display svg maps in a web page, recently I’ve watched to an interesting talk about a Django-powered app built [...]
Category: Django , GIS , JavaScript , Programmazione , Python , Tech , WebGis
2012-01-05
GeoContent Joomla component ready for 1.7, 2.5 and newer
GeoContent Plus is a Joomla! 1.7.x and 2.5.x component that let you easily embed beautiful Google Maps or OpenLayers Maps into your Joomla! 1.7.x and 2.5.x website.
GeoContent gives a geographical dimension to your Joomla! website.
Category: GIS , Joomla , WebGis
2011-09-09
QGIS mapserver test drive
QGIS recently added new WMS server capabilities to its software stack. Breaking into the server world, the new server can read a QGIS project project file and serve maps to the internet. This amazing new feature, really opens QGIS users to a new horizon of possibilities.
Category: Linux , Tech , WebGis
2011-04-20
Italian GFOSS Day 2010
Next week, from wednesday 18 to friday 19, I will attend in Foligno to the upcoming GFOSS Day 2010 holding two tutorials on GIS Python development and on a GeoDjango case study. Like previous editions of this event, it will be another fundamental opportunity to meet the other members of the Italian free GIS software community. Don’t miss this event, if you can!
Category: GIS , Python , WebGis
2010-11-12
GIS and WebGIS at Linux Day 2007
Sorry, this article is not available in english.
Category: Linux , Mapserver e mapscript , WebGis
2007-10-31
P.mapper JS compression
This short note describe a technique to compress JavaScript files in p.mapper WebGIS.
Compressing JS files can speed significantly up loading times in this popular WebGIS client application.
Category: JavaScript , WebGis
2007-10-23
A restful service for mapfile configuration
Several tools exists to help maintaining and configuring mapserver mapfiles. MapStorer is a good example. All of the available tools provide a nice GUI and a storage database adapter.
What seems to be missing at the moment is a restful service. We’ve started working on a project that could fill this gap.
Category: Mapserver e mapscript , PHP , WebGis
2007-10-05
