{"id":146,"date":"2006-04-22T02:24:38","date_gmt":"2006-04-22T07:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2006-04-22T02:24:38","modified_gmt":"2006-04-22T07:24:38","slug":"mapserver-postgis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/146\/mapserver-postgis\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapserver, Postgis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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: <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.openguides.org\/maps\/boston-metro.png\">Boston Metro<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.openguides.org\/maps\/boston-metro-big.png\">Boston Metro Big<\/a>, 1000&#215;800 and 2000&#215;1600 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;Sigma&#8221; project, and I&#8217;m extremely grateful to them for their efforts! They&#8217;ve saved me a ton of work, and allowed me to produce something that looks pretty damn cool.<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s not an advertisement for Open Geodata, I don&#8217;t know what is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,43,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-locality-and-space","category-openguides","category-spatial-databases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}