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OpenSource GIS and a Bunch of Hot Air!
posted by Satri
on Monday November 21, @11:11AM
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from the follow-the-hot-balloon dept.
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Tim Sutton writes "Today we interviewed Tim Baggett who used a bunch of Open Source applications to map a balloon race! "We needed a mapping system for tracking long distance balloon flights that served two purposes. One was for the benefit of the race organizers who constantly monitor the position of the teams flying the balloons, while the second purpose was to provide real-time tracking updates to a web page so the general public can watch the event unfold. It's a bit like watching a three day horse race! After exploring several other possibilities for a solution, I settled on using the UMN MapServer, PHP MapScript, GDAL/OGR, Postgres/PostGIS and Apache2 on a RedHat Fedora3 system."
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These guys make a living out of providing serverbased GIS services. The rest of us are free to download their distro and install it for work or play:
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I should mention that I am in no way affiliated with the good guys at at HostGIS. I am just an extremely happy user."
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