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Tuesday 18 October 2005: Session 3, 8:30:00 AM
Open Source Web Mapping - MapServer 101
Presentation Abstract
MapServer is an Open Source Internet Map Server that provides capabilities similar to ArcIMS, MapXtreme, or GeoMedia WebMap. It is developed and maintained by the University of Minnesota and Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources and runs on Windows, Unix/Linus, and Mac OS. The workshop will cover the basics of installing MapServer on a Windows machine and configuring maps. Attendees who want to participate in the hands-on exercises should be comfortable with editing text files, copying and pasting files and have some familiarity with HTML to work through the exercises. Non-technical people can follow along with the handouts and team up with someone doing the exercises. The map configuration part of the workshop will start with map basics such as adding layers, setting layer symbology, legends, scale bars, labels, and supported vector as raster data formats. This will be followed by more advanced capabilities such as OGC support, on-the-fly reprojection, adding dynamic map features, and various options for building viewer clients.
Speaker Biographical Information
Michael Anderson President: Spatial Information Technologies, Inc.
Mr. Anderson received a B.S. in Earth Science in 1990 from Clarion University of Pennsylvania and a M.S. in Soil Science from The Pennsylvania State University in 1996. He began working for Penn State’s Environmental Resources Research Institute (ERRI) in June of 1993. While at ERRI, he managed several data compilation projects and developed numerous ArcInfo and ArcView applications for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, the Allegheny National Forest, and various Penn State researchers. In March of 1997 he moved to the Land Analysis Laboratory (LAL) within Penn State’s College of Agriculture. While at the LAL he continued developing ArcView applications, and began developing WebGIS applications. The applications focused on the analysis of environmental conditions and providing access to GIS data for counties, watershed groups, conservation districts, and the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. In July of 1997 he started Spatial Information Technologies, Inc. (SpatialIT). In February of 2001 Mr. Anderson left the LAL to devote himself full-time to SpatialIT. The majority of his time is spent developing desktop and WebGIS applications using commercial and Open Source software, migrating ArcView 3.x applications to ArcGIS, and embedding GIS in other applications, such as Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and Access databases.
