Web-Based GPS and Meteorological Data Publishing System

The objective of this bachelor thesis is to develop a web application for publishing and animating a route on hiking maps together with images obtained from a meteorological radar. The thesis includes the basics of the Earth surface description, coordinate systems, GPS and the meteorological radars. The next part of the text describes an analysis of available application interfaces for building rich web-based geographic applications. The application was developed in PHP with using the Javascript OpenLayers open-source library for creating a dynamic map in the web page. The thesis also deals with the problem of different coordinate systems used by the Mapy.cz portal and the recorded track points in a GPX file