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GISinabox

GISinabox is a plug and play integrated hardware, software, data and GIS solution that offers instant client server GIS to organisations.

GisInABoxLogo.jpgGISinabox offers server side GIS built on best of breed open source components and standards. It includes everything required to disseminate spatial data in an intranet and internet environment.  Gisbox consists of an OGC compliant map server, Web server and Spatial Data Store and includes various web and desktop clients.  The system provides a user friendly installer that allows the user to setup and serve data quickly. 

 

 

This distribution comes packed with useful tools, scripts and documentation to kick start custom development. The desktop utilities make it easy to publish your map data via Mapserver to the world.

 

With gisbox a user can:

  • Serve geographic data over a network 
  • Serve geographic data linked to corporate databases
  • Develop custom applications using industry standards
  • Disseminate vector data to any GIS client that supports OGIS standards.

 

Components

 

The server installation comes pre-setup with:

  • Internet Map server (Mapserver)
  • Enterprise Relational Database with spatial extensions (Postgress and PostGIS Extensions )
  • Web server (Apache) 
  • PHP application serving 
  • Mapserver utilities 
  • Mapscript
  • Web Viewers 
  • Documentation 
  • Developer Examples 
  • General data for South Africa already loaded
  • Maintenance agreement for the update and support of the system. Various SLA and DLSA levels and related response times are offered
  • Call centre and issue tracking website to log issues and obtain support

 

Standard Features

 

  • Advanced cartographic output
  • Scale dependent feature drawing and application execution
  • Feature labelling including label collision mediation
  • Fully customizable, template driven output
  • TrueType fonts
  • Map element automation (scalebar, reference map, and legend)
  • Thematic mapping using logical- or regular expression-based classes
  • Support for popular scripting and development environments
  • PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, and C#
  • Cross-platform support
  • Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, and more
  • A multitude of raster and vector data formats
  • TIFF/GeoTIFF, EPPL7, and many others via GDAL
  • ESRI shapfiles, PostGIS, ESRI ArcSDE, Oracle Spatial, MySQL and many others via OGR
  • Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web specifications + WMS (client/server), non-transactional WFS (client/server), WMC, WCS, Filter Encoding, SLD, GML, SOS
  • Map projection support
  • On-the-fly map projection with 1000s of projections through the Proj.4 library

 

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