Mapserver, Postgis
After hours of fighting with Postgis, Schuyler finally got bia into a state where she would do the right thing when told to install it, so I was able to load the data from the Open Guide to Boston into postgis, and from there, to talk to it with mapserver. The result is a couple of pretty cool looking maps: Boston Metro, and Boston Metro Big, 1000×800 and 2000×1600 respectively.
The maps underneath are provided by Public Domain datasets, wrapped up in a tidy little easy to use package by the folks at OpenPlans through their “Sigma” project, and I’m extremely grateful to them for their efforts! They’ve saved me a ton of work, and allowed me to produce something that looks pretty damn cool.
If that’s not an advertisement for Open Geodata, I don’t know what is.