Mr. D's Research

I am currently working on combining content management systems with mapping.

You may add maps to your site by using easy to use mapping APIs from Google and Yahoo.

Content management systems provide applications that are used to manage items like news stories, blogs, forums, etc. They also provide other things such as user management, and templates that provide a certain look.

Geocoding takes an address and turns it into a latitude and longitude. You may use a site such as GeoCoder.US to geocode addresses.

Creating Location Aware Applications

If you are interested in location aware apps, join the Geowanking mailing list.

PostGIS - An extension of the PostgreSQL database. A sophisticated database that can be used to store location information in various formats.

Worldkit - Easy web mapping

Mapserver - Open Source development environment for constructing spatially enabled Internet-web applications

Ka-Map - A project aimed at providing a javascript API for developing highly interactive web-mapping interfaces.

Google Maps API - used to create highly interactive web-mapping interfaces using Asynchronous JavaScript. Pretty easy to use.

Yahoo Maps API - used to create highly interactive web-mapping interfaces. Very sophisticated. Three interfaces to choose from.

Content Management Systems

Here are some content management systems available on the web.

Xoops - My favorite. The good: Very easy to install and easy to understand. The bad: they've been promising a new version for quite a while now and development seems to be very slow.

Mambo a.k.a. Joomla- Seems like it has more capabilities than Xoops, but is somewhat more complicated.

Drupal - Simple, and quickly growing in popularity.

CPS - a GIS enabled content management system.

Hummingbird for ESRI- CMS that uses ESRI GIS technology (pretty expensive though).

GIS Standards on the Web

Open Geospatial Consortium - Develops standards for geospatioal and location based services

W3C - develops standards for basic geography markup on the web.


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