Foundation and Mapserver MAP file manag e tool

[Flavio Hendry]

Bob and all

The initial question was about having some WYSIWYG tool for editing 
MapFiles. There are some out there, I mentioned most of them on 
http://umn.mapserver.ch - the ultimate mapfile resource :-)

Despite that, there is totally another issue, which is not covered by 
any tools: most maps are simply, let's be nasty and name it in caps: 
UGLY (the mapserver gallery is my witness). No tool will help there.

And on the tool discussion. We use MapInfo MapXtreme, ESRI ArcIMS and 
UMN MapServer, and there are tools all over:
- for MapXtreme, MapInfo can be used, pretty straight forward and fine, 
especially if you have it anyay for your desktop stuff
- for ArcIMS finally you can use ArcGIS, pretty straight forward and 
fine, especially if you have it anyay for your desktop stuff
- for ArcIMS there is/was AXL, far uglier then XML ... (see my previous 
XML remark ...)
- for MapServer there are almost all of them, an ArcGIS tool (pretty 
odd IHMO), a MapInfo tool (from us, pretty outdated), MapEDIT and one 
of the best of it, UltraEdit (Bob, excuse, I am a Windows guy, vi 
sounds like nightmares ...)

Anyway, having a long term experience with all of them, MapFiles are 
the fastest and most flaxible one can have ... I said it: just love 
them. Don't dare touching them, or I will be :-(((((((!

Mit freundlichem Gruss / Best Regards
Flavio Hendry

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