MapScript example...

[Paul G. Allen]

Stephen Lime wrote:

> Got a simple MapScript example running at http://arachnid.dnr.state.mn.us/ms_test. It's
> a perl script that uses remote data from the USGS (gathered using the perl Net::Finger
> module) to plot the last 21 semi-major earth quakes around the world. I swiped the world
> DEM from Doug Nebert's prototype, pretty image. Everything is handled in perl using
> a few MapScript calls to manipulate map file settings, draw the basemap, map the quake
> locations and to add a timestamp. It may be slow depending on how busy the USGS servers
> are cause each pan or zoom executes a finger request. In a production mode you'd probably
> nab the data every hour or so and work from the copy, still no need to create a shapefile. I'll
> glady share any details of this script.
>
> Yes, documentation is in the works. I hope to have at least some up tonite at the main
> MapServer site.
>

You the man! :-)