I am pleased to announce CouchMaps which is a simple wrapper around
MapServer (http://mapserver.org/) to enable
* Existing MapServer map files to be converted to JSON format
* MapServer map files to be edited in JSON and stored in CouchDB
* MapServer to be managed and run in an Erlang OTP supervision process
* GDAL CouchDB OGR driver to serve GeoJSON directly from CouchDB as
a WFS or rendered through WMS
MapServer is an Open Source platform for publishing spatial data and
interactive mapping applications to the web.
The code is available here
https://github.com/normanb/couchmaps
Mainly this leverages the great work by the GDAL and MapServer communities.
I have included sample data and a walk through of making WFS and WMS
queries (http://www.opengeospatial.org).
My employer, ITT VIS, http://www.ittvis.com enabled the release of
this code and donated my time to this development.
Many thanks,
Norman
p.s. I would like to make this work with CouchDB trunk, but GeoCouch
is using an API that is pending approval to CouchDB trunk so currently
it uses CouchOne.
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