Version 3.3 wish list...

cshorte2 at csc.com cshorte2 at csc.com
Tue Jun 29 19:29:39 EDT 1999


>>* I'm also want an operator on the host to be able to enter a map
feature,
>>post it to mapserv, and for mapserv to add it into an existing map on the
>>server.  This probably involves using Java on the host machine.  I'm
>>prepared to help code this.
>
>I'm all for this, but would prefer so build this as a separate
application. MapServer
>would still handle the map drawing but answering the add, delete and edit
requests
>would be handled by a second specialty app. Java would be necessary for
coordinate
>capture. Client would be the tricky part, code to do the deletes, adds
etc. already
>exixsts (minus the file locking etc.).
Most of the client code already exists.  Check out http://openmap.bbn.com/.
They have written java beans for handling mapping data.  All that I belive
is missing is the linking of the client and server, and then we would have
an end-to-end solution.

Cameron.





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