Software

This course will use a wide variety of software.

OSGeo Live

One piece of software we’ll use is OSGeo Live, a complete operating system set up for GIS and web-based GIS. You can find out more on our OSGeo page.

PostGIS

We’ll use PostGIS for serving geographical objects.

PHP

We’ll use PHP to communicate with PostGIS.

SQL

We’ll make requests of the PostGIS database interface with SQL

GoogleMaps

We’ll use GoogleMaps for client-side mapping.

Leaflet

We’ll use Leaflet for more bespoke client-side mapping.

GeoServer and MapServer

We’ll also talk a little about GeoServer and MapServer.