[Mapserver-users] Getting Access to mapserver directly

[Ed McNierney]

Ralf -

You can use MapServer itself from the command line.  Pass it a single command-line argument that reads QUERY_STRING=xxx where "xxx" is the HTTP querystring you would put after the "?" on the URL.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
North Chelmsford, MA  01863
ed at topozone.com
(978) 251-4242 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ralf Rapude [mailto:rapude at web.de]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 2:08 PM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: [Mapserver-users] Getting Access to mapserver directly


Hi List,
I'm just testing the MapServer and I like it very well. But I need a
tool like that in a different way, which means that I would like to
use it without its webserver features, because I just need the map and
noting else.
Is there any opportunity to send the parameters, now given by GET to
the mapserver.exe, directly as an argument out af a java application?

For example:
I've rendered an initial map out of different layers from the oracle
db. Now I would like to build a java-tool which allows to zoom an area
in by giving new coordinates to mapserver.exe out of the mouse event.
If mapserver.exe is started again with the new coordinates it will
start a new request to Oracle Spatial, which allows mapserver.exe to
render a new map so that I'm able to give it out in my application.

Thanks a lot
Ralf

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