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GIS in Plone With PrimaGIS -- Screencasts Available
Check out two new screencasts showcasing the capabilities of PrimaGIS, a collaborative web mapping application for Plone. It's an eye-opening demonstration of the power of the Plone platform, and how well it plays with other open-source frameworks.
Josh Livni of Livni Consulting has put together two screencasts showcasing PrimaGIS.
For those of you not following the open source mapping world, PrimaGIS is a collaborative web mapping application for Plone. It builds on top of the open-source MapServer application, and uses the Python Cartographic Library (PCL) and Zope Cartographic Objects (ZCO) to expose powerful interactive GIS mapping capabilities inside of a Plone-powered website.
OK, alphabet soup. Here's the deal: PrimaGIS makes it easy to build powerful web-based mapping applications inside a Plone site. That's cool.
And it's a great showcase not only for open-source web-based mapping tools, but it really shows off how Plone can be used to power amazing web-based applications that manage and display content in innovative ways. It can also suck in data from other GIS repositories -- this is Google-map mashups, only practical and useful, and standards-based.
Check out the screencasts. It'll be the best ten minutes of your week.
Also worth noting in the rapidly-maturing world of GIS in Plone: WorldKit.
