On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 11:53 -0600, Richard Lynch wrote: > This is actually pretty OT for the PHP list itself, really, unless you > want to try to implement GIS in PHP, which would be a particularly Bad > Idea (tm) due to the scale, scope, and calculations involved. > Err, sorry, but I must correct you there. PHP is used as one of the more common GIS (Web mapping at least) languages. I use it extensively with the UMN Mapserver (mapserver.gis.umn.edu) as PHP/Mapscript which you compile into PHP as an extension to access your map data. The OT part comes in with the actual guts of the db transaction, and the AJAX based interfaces that everyone insists on these days. PHP in this case is an extremely important aspect of web mapping, and I have even used PHP to interface to GRASS and other GIS apps (OK now _this_ is starting to be a Bad Idea(TM)). Some of the largest web mapping and scientific apps run off PHP/Mapscript (closest competitor is PythonMapscript). Just to let you know... --Paul
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