The GIS apps on the IEM are not generated from some blackbox. There are real scripts and programs that drive the apps and dynamic plots. Here is a listing of software that you may find useful.
| University of Minnesota MapServer | |||
| Homepage: | http://mapserver.org/ | ||
| From their website, "MapServer is an OpenSource development environment for building spatially enabled Internet applications. The software builds upon other popular OpenSource or freeware systems like Shapelib, FreeType, Proj.4, libTIFF, Perl and others. MapServer will run where most commercial systems won't or can't, on Linux/Apache platforms. MapServer is known to compile on most UNIXes and will run under Windows NT/98/95." | |||
| PostGIS | |||
| Homepage: | http://postgis.refractions.net | ||
| PostGIS is a spatial extension to the PostgreSQL database system. | |||
| PHP Mapscript | |||
| Homepage: | http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/webtools/php_mapscript/index.html | ||
| PHP MapScript module provides access to MapServer MapScript functions and classes from PHP scripts. The power of PHP scripting is thus combined with the plotting power of MapServer. | |||
| Python Shapelib | |||
| Homepage: | ftp://intevation.de/users/bh/pyshapelib-0.2.tar.gz | ||
| PyShapelib provides python bindings to shapelib. Shapelib is a library for manipulating shapefiles. Thus you can edit shapefiles from Python. | |||