Arhanghelul Posted May 17, 2014 Report Share Posted May 17, 2014 (edited) Let's say that a business corporation that offers consultancy for renting and selling houses would like to implement a web-application that can help their customers to find houses based on geo-location requests. Let's say that me, as a customer I would like to rent an apartment. As a student and part-time worker, I would like to find a place that satisfy my necesities, based on some eliminatory points. And let's say that, other advantages than a minimum renting price, I would like to find a house that is in : 1) proximity to transportation (bus or subway) > finding a house as much as possible to a bus station or subway station, to have an easy acces to my university and job place; 2) proximity to markets and shops > finding a house near to markets and shops; 3) proximity to parks, green spaces and party places (clubs, bars, etc) > every student likes to party 4) proximity to other factors that can influence the renting price of a house (railaway stations, neighbourhood criminallity risks, etc, etc ) So, as a developper of a such type of geo-location web application, I would like to know what datasets to use (free acces), what softwares to use (open source) and what knowledge is need for making this application (programming, web design) ? So, as a beginner in this field, can someone tell me what are the skills and datasets nedeed to make a web-application for a renting/selling houses business ? How to start developping this application ? How long can it take to do it ? Any references, links, examples, advices and tutorials are welcomed ! Please help me! Edited May 17, 2014 by Arhanghelul 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cactuz Posted May 17, 2014 Report Share Posted May 17, 2014 Some times ago I also want to do some thing like you write, but it requires lots of experience in developing web application using javascript or other language. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geos987 Posted May 18, 2014 Report Share Posted May 18, 2014 Hi. You can use open source GeoExt JavaScript Toolkit http://geoext.org/. It is combination of OpenLayers, ExtJS and GeoExt and it is easy to learn. You must know HTML and JavaScript language. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veegee Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 Dear Arhanghelul, 1. Agree with geos987, you can use openlayers, extjs and GeoExt. 2. You can use Geoserver, mapserver or qgis lizmap service 3. You should be well versed in html and javascripting with google API, and other mapping API like yahoo, Bing and OSM 4. Check for reference www.housing.com and www.commonfloor.com/. You will get idea here. They have done this very well. Delights 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
am2 Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 I think at forst you should learn spatial database and DBMS systems like postgress and others then geoserver and after that using javascript or other web programing you can develope great apps Is there any better liberries that we can use and work with spatial analizes too?sth like a calculating intersects and others?in client side.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rahmansunbeam Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 Have a look at the Google API, it's robust and cost effective. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arhanghelul Posted June 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 It looks very complicated for me, as a beginner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
am2 Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 Yes ..I think you start with database and then spatial database then geoserver and countinue with javascript and openlayer and other liberaryies beside learning basic of html and other web programing languages 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 this is definietly an applied GIS, moved from off topic 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arhanghelul Posted June 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 Can someone share with me tutorials about how to create a web-application, following my ideea ? Something descriptive, step-by-step, easy to understand. Thx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
am2 Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 I dont think you can find anything step by step..But you can find some basics of spatial db and other liberaries in this site 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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