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Geospatial Content Management System
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Geospatial Content Management System
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A Geospatial Content Management System (GeoCMS) is a
Content Management System where objects (users, images, articles,
blogs..) can have a Latitude, Longitude position to be displayed on an
online interactive map. In
addition the online maps link to informational pages (wiki pages
essentially) on the data represented.
A GeoCMS can have a map of registered users allowing to build communities
geographically, by looking at users location. The help of wiki for describing
geographical layers present a simple way to solve the problem of geographical metadata.
Since the advent of
Google Maps and the publication of its API, numerous users
have used online maps to illustrate their web pages. Google Maps is in itself
not a GeoCMS but is a powerful building block.
Similarly
Mapserver is also a powerful building block for creating GeoCMS.
TikiWiki
was the first CMS to become a GeoCMS in early 2003, it is now becoming popular
on various other CMS especially since the publication of the Mapserver API in
2002 to many scripting languages: PHP, Python, Perl, Java,...
GeoCMS List
GeoCMS comparison
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Drupal |
Midgard |
Plone |
TikiWiki |
WordPress |
| Ability to store locations |
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| Number of locations per content item |
Multiple |
In/about/at |
See specific plugin |
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| Maps on content items |
Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, MapBuilder |
Mapstraction |
See specific plugin |
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Google Maps |
| Syndication formats |
GeoRSS, KML |
GeoRSS |
See specific plugin |
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GeoRSS |
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