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PHP and GIS software

Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 1:22 am
by garry27
If anyone has any experience or knowledge of commercial GIS mapping solutions for websites and how they integrate with PHP, please can you answer the questions below. I would be ever grateful and you would be helping me with my final year undergraduate project.


I've read that some providers communicate in XML, do you know of any examples on the web (access to code xml document trees etc.)?


How do GIS software providers provide the map to the client and in what format is it?


What information does the client need to send in order for the provider to process a request for a map?

What information does the provider need to send back to the client in order to enable them to plot objects on the map they have recieved?


Will the client need special software in order to plot real co-ordinates on the map (for example if they wanted to plot the location of a pub using real geographical co-ordinates)?


If I were to use the PHP's longitude and latitude co-orrdinate functions to plot the objects on the map at the client end, would I be able to do this with a street level map? If it can, then how?

feyd | many lines of bold, this thread did need not. :roll: