[Cartoweb-users] Prototype Cartoweb based Complaint System

[Paul Shapley]

Hi All Users,

I have been given an opportunity to use Cartoweb as the main mapping
component within a complaint system in Planning Development Control
here in a UK Authority. i want to create a functional prototype using
'postgreSQL' and 'Postgis'. I think it would be a marvelous
opportunity to promote Cartoweb (and Open Source Mapping Tools).

The Authority currently use Oracle/ArcIMS technologies to deliver
mapping through IE, which provide a very poor user experience.


The requirements are basically,

1.   The complainant would need to Search an address and zoom to it on a map.
2.   The complainant then creates a polygon which retrieves
constraints and generates a form to  be completed and returned it to
the server.
3.   The map which includes the polygon is returned 'attached' to the
form as a pdf.
4.   A receipt is automatically returned to the complainant.

My questions are:-

1.   What Cartoweb components are required on the Server (i assume
Wamp5, and the    Cartoweb 3 folder) but is there any other?.

2.  Instead of Cartoweb generating a 'label' when a polygon is drawn
how can it be modified to point to the url of the form which would be
attached to the map?.

3.   Can the creation of a Polygon return any underlying spatial objects?

Has anyone undertaken a similar project?


Paul J. Shapley