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Show Us Map! 45 Minutes to Build Your Own 3D City Map Server with SUAS MapServer 3

The tranditional 2D Web GIS can not satisfy the people, who are toughing new technique everyday. The 2D map has many better features such as rapid speed, non-client and easy to be implemented, but with the fast renovation of hardware and internet, those features have lost their adventage to 3D map. MSN, Google Map have supported 3D online map and many GIS companies have also released many powerful desktop softwares to help the users to update their 2D data or build 3D model based on forehaved 2D data.

Such as ArcView 3D Analyst:

Show Us Map! 30 Minutes to Build Your Own Map Server with SUAS MapServer 3

Have you used Google Map? Are you potty about its amazing and powerful functions? Would you like to have one such map server, even you are not a Giser or just know a little bit of GIS technique.

If you are working in GIS field, and you want to build your map server to deliver your map data, but UMN Map Server is too difficult to install and config, and too complex to use and make you headache. Of course, the UMN Map Server is a nice and strong tools, but you don't wanna wasting time to learn a lot of tutorials before the installation.

Google Maps is not available on Amazon tablet devices

Google Maps is not available on Amazon tablet devices, if you need map, Amazon Maps API is required to be migrated.

Ref:
https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/maps/migrating.html

cloudmade, a company to offer geocode, map tile cache, routing service

http://cloudmade.com/

A company to offer geocode, map tile cache, routing service.
Can be used with OSM android SDK.

Ref:
http://code.google.com/p/osmdroid/wiki/HowToUseJar

Build JBoss AS 7.1.2.Final

In one project Jboss EAP 6.0.0 was required, but it is commercial product from Red Hat, before i get the lisence from Red Hat, i need go on working. Jboss EAP 6.0.0 was built on base of JBoss AS 7.1.2.Final , only a little bit different in Branch.

But there is no built version for JBoss AS 7.1.2.Final in Jboss website:
http://www.jboss.org/jbossas/downloads/
https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public/org/jboss/as/jboss-as-dist/

What i can find is the source code in GIT:
https://github.com/jbossas/jboss-as/tree/7.1.2.Final

Sailfish OS

The Sailfish OS is a mobile-optimized operating system, baseed on Linux core, support Qt™ platform, and you can develop Android, QT, and HTML5 app for it.

This new mobile OS will release its first phone in China.

https://sailfishos.org/

Tiled (Qt)

Tiled (Qt)
Maybe the source code can be used for GIS? Just mark here

http://www.mapeditor.org/
http://files.mapeditor.org/doxygen/files.html

Use different Symbol style in one layer (Geoserver)

I have one layer in Geoserver, the data query is one table with geometry, there is one column named 'TYPE', which has 3 different type: 'rest', 'park', 'hotel'.
I need set 3 different color for this layer depends on 'TYPE', so custom SLD style should be defined in Geoserver like this:

  1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>

How to install Postgre database into Xampp

How to install pgsql into Xampp:

1. install pgsql under user/xampp/pgsql/9.1/
You can choose other version

and download phpPgAdmin as you will, copy it under user\xampp\phpPgAdmin

2. edit user\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-xampp.conf

....

Alias /phppgadmin "user/xampp/phpPgAdmin/"

AllowOverride AuthConfig
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

3. edit user\xampp\phpPgAdmin\conf\config.inc.php

$conf['servers'][0]['host'] = 'localhost';

$conf['extra_login_security'] = false;

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