movie tracking a point using python-mapscript

Gerry Creager N5JXS gerry.creager at TAMU.EDU
Thu Jun 2 07:14:13 EDT 2005


This might help:  http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/visit/AniS/

I use this to animate our weather depictions.
gerry

Didrik Pinte wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to create a movie tracking a point... I'm looking for interesting
> ideas about that.
> 
> Here are my plans :
> 
> 	- select the point
> 	- for each record on this point :
> 		- get its X,Y from PostGIS
> 		- center the map on the point using a defined scale
> 		- create a png output
> With all the png's, create a movie.
> 
> I want to do it using python-mapscript for many different reasons.
> 
> Has anybody already done this ?
> 
> Thank
> 
> Didrik

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