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April 08, 2005
A Linux MapServer bundled distro based on CorelLinux
HostGIS Linux 2.3 - a Linux/GNU distribution specifically made for handling GIS information
Caught news of HostGIS on Mapping Hacks and plan on checking this out using VMWare. It's based on CoreLinux, PostGIS-enabled Postgres database, and is benchmarked on a Pentium 2.
From Host GIS:
HostGIS Linux is a Linux/GNU distribution specifically made for handling GIS information. HostGIS Linux saves hours or days of installing MapServer and its components, and will have you serving GIS maps in minutes. It includes:
Being a Linux, HostGIS Linux is of course completely open source and may be downloaded free of charge.
- All the usual amenities of a Linux distribution: compilers, Perl, etc.
- Apache webserver, with PHP
- MapServer, and MapScript for PHP, Perl, and Python
- PDFlib, with support built in to PHP, Perl, Python, and MapServer
- PostGIS-enabled Postgres database server
- MapServer Web Client (MWC) to display great interactive maps without designing any HTML or JavaScript
- Example apps already installed demonstrating WMS layers, PostGIS layers, and PHP/MapScript
Download and documentation links:
The current manual and technical details
The current example docs and manual, downloadable
A list of what was changed in each version
version 2.3, Feb 2005
version 1.0, Aug 2004
For other assistance, FAQs, and announcements, visit the Forum.
Posted by cystdog at April 8, 2005 10:30 AM
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