17 Using PostGIS in web applications
This chapter covers
- Shortcomings of conventional web solutions
- Pg_tileserv and pg_featureserv
- MapServer, GeoServer, QGIS Server
- OpenLayers 6, Leaflet 1
- Displaying data with PostGIS queries and web scripting
In a span of 30 years, the World Wide Web has emerged as the leading method of information delivery, largely replacing printed media. For GIS, this has been a godsend. Not only did the web introduce GIS to the popular imagination, but it also provided a delivery mechanism for GIS data that wouldn’t have been possible via traditional printed media. In the past a GIS practitioner wishing to share data would have had to print out large maps on oversized printers or send copies of data on disk media. And ...
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