Web GIS

Principles and Applications presents a thorough overview of the 

origins and developments of this emerging platform. 

                                                         ESRI

1.      Web GIS is any GIS that uses Web technology to communicate between components.

¨  Web-based map viewer, marking the origin of web GIS. The Web site provide

ú  Simple map zoom capabilities.

ú  Layer selection.

ú  Map projection conversion functions.

¨  Users could use the map viewer in a Web browser and click a link to a function. The Web browser would then send an HTTP request to the Web server.

¨  The web server would receive the request, perform mapping operations, generate a new map, and return it to the Web browser that requested it. The Web browser would then receive and display the map image. 

¨  The format of the response can be an HTML that is used by the Web browser client, but it can also be in other formats such as binary image, XML, or JSON.

2.     

Commercial Web mapping applications such as;
            - Google Maps
            - Google Earth
            - Microsoft Bing Maps
            - Yahoo Map
            - Open source Web mapping
            - Free web map servers

3.      These sites commonly provide detailed maps and high-resolution ground imagery of many regions.

4.      Type of Servers - Web Server (Apache Server) and Map Server -WMN Map Server

5.      Download link…..http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/

6.      Visit : http://gistrend.blogspot.com/

      YouTube : http://youtu.be/W_a0wStLOIk

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 Easy way to install web server to computer, Easy way to install map server to computer,

 1.Click the link

2. Click Zip Archive

 3. Save to your Hard disk drive

 4. Past to C:/Drive

 5. Save in C:/ Drive

 6. Open Readme_install

 7. Start CMD

 8. Go to CMD Folder

 9. If you not login as a administrator log as Administator

 10. CMD Shell

 11. Go to ms4w folder

 12. Install the server to your computer

13.  Go to localhost, type http://localhost

 14.  If you want to install two servers change the port

 15. Change the port number

 16. Down load any mapping server framework to your server

 17. Click the down load link

 18. Extract all to the folder

 19. Copy folder

 20. past the folder

 21. Restart the server

 22. Refresh the page

 23. This is the install pack

 24. p.mapper package

 25. Mapserv_demo_ms4w pack

 26. Extract all to the folder

 27. Copy and paste to C:/ drive

 28. Restart the server

 29. Refresh the page

 30. Refresh the page

 31. Rename the project

 32. Rename as you like

 33. Change HTML coordings

 34. Change cording acceding to your requirement

 35. Go to md4w and open apps folder

 36. Rename the folder to above given name

 37. Go to md4w and open httpd.d folder

 38. Rename the folder to above given name

 39. Go to md4w and open httpd.d folder

 40. Rename to httpd_srilanka

 41. Open the doc

 42. Change these parameters

 43. Copy the folder and paste in C:/ Drive

 44. Restart the server

 45. You can see the map server

 46. Change code for modification

 47. Open the file

 48. Open with notepad for easy editing

 49. Edit this doc to change the layout

 50. Cording

 51. Data folder