Register of who's doing what, and what's in the pipeline?

[Peter O'Regan]

Hello from New Zealand everyone!

The function Robert has requested seems like an essential component for an 
online GIS.  For instance, it would enable address finding - where the user 
types in an address and the map is rendered and presented, highlighting the 
selected property. Very useful (and important). This signals a bigger issue 
for me.

I am a relative newcomer to MapServer and the OpenSource movement. While 
MapServer is impressive as it stands, I know there's a lot of good 
development work being done by many people.  There seems a large risk that 
effort may be being duplicated.  Is there a register somewhere which 
identifies who's working on certain aspects of Mapserver, Mapscript etc, or 
forthcoming release notes?  How do we ensure wheels aren't being 
re-created?

For instance, I would like to know what Java interfaces have been developed 
for Mapscript on Linux.  Where could I find this info?

I look forward to being part of the MapServer movement, and contributing to 
making online GIS affordable to the mainstream.

Regards


Peter O'Regan
Director, Resolution Consulting Limited
petero at resolution.co.nz
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On Friday, 26 January 2001 03:24, Daniel Morissette 
[SMTP:morissette at dmsolutions.ca] wrote:
> Robert Ofarrell wrote:
> >
> > At the moment I am toying with the querymap, and one thing that I would
> > like to do is to zoom to a result of a query.  Is this possible with
> > php-mapscript, and if so could you give me a brief description of how 
to
> > do it - or point me in the direction of some information which would 
help
> > please?
> >
>
> Robert,
>
> I haven't played much with querymaps and I'm not sure what's the best
> way to do what you ask, I don't think there is a direct way to "zoom to
> selected objects", but I may be wrong.
>
> I guess one possibility would be using the shapeFileObj to open your
> layer, and read the extent (getExtent(i)) of all selected objects... and
> then use that to set the map extent.  Requires a bit of coding, but that
> would work...
>
> Hopefully someone on the MapServer list will know a more straightforward
> method (using either Perl or PHP).
>
> Good Luck!
> --
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>  Daniel Morissette                morissette at dmsolutions.ca
>                  http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
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