Bringing MapServer to the newsroom
By William M. Hartnett on Apr 7, 2007 in CAR, geekery, newspapers
>Open source GIS with MapServer, part one (car-chase.net)
Chase Davis of the Houston Chronicle delivers the first of several posts explaining how he tackled MapServer, the open source alternative to ArcIMS. As he points out, “Whenever MapServer is mentioned on NICAR-L, the discussion quickly turns to how hard it is to install.” Indeed. It’s like he cracked the Enigma code. Check out the demo map he knocked together.
