A demo of Generating Google Tiles With mapserver

[Jon Saints]

True the server side could be implemented in any
language that talks mapscript and xml.

The front end is an simple xmlHTTPrequest javascript
client.

As far as labeling I would like to generate label
points for polygons and render the labels as DHTML on
the client side.

I wanted to say a special thanks to Sean Gillies and
all others for their work creating and documenting
mapscript.

Jon



--- Sean Gillies <sgillies at FRII.COM> wrote:
> Thanks for being a good sport about my Python vs
> Perl joke :)
>
> I'm sure there would be a lot of javascript that
> could be shared
> regardless of the mapscripting language.
>
> Sean
>
> On May 7, 2005, at 10:32 AM, Stephen Woodbridge
> wrote:
>
> > Sean,
> >
> > Yeah, that is exactly what I meant! :) Jon has
> done an great job of
> > getting something working, while I have only
> generated a lot of really
> > BIG numbers. I'd rather be putting my time to
> adding features to the
> > cool work Jon has done instead following in his
> foot steps and probably
> > not doing it as well.
> >
> > -Steve
> >
> > Sean Gillies wrote:
> >> Steve,
> >>
> >> Don't you mean "help to obfuscate it"? :)
> >>
> >> Sweet work, Jon!  Yves Moisan and I need to talk
> to you about whether
> >> we can use this code in our Plone mapping
> product.
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >> Sean
> >>
> >>
> >> On May 7, 2005, at 10:18 AM, Stephen Woodbridge
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Jon,
> >>>
> >>> Very nice demo and performace is very good also.
> I would be
> >>> interested
> >>> in converting it to perl/mapscript and help to
> improve it.
> >>>
> >>> -Steve W.
> >>>
> >>> Jon Saints wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I have implemented a demo using python
> mapscript and
> >>>> mapserver that gives very basic functionality
> simillar
> >>>> to google maps.
> >>>>
> >>>> I do not pre-render maps at the various scales.
> >>>> mapscale are rendered on the fly and the
> indiviual
> >>>> tile images are sent directly to the user -
> never
> >>>> saved on disk.  I know this will cause problems
> for
> >>>> labeling, but there may be a way around this
> with some
> >>>> DHTML tricks.
> >>>>
> >>>> Please remember that this demo is running off
> of my
> >>>> desktop computer over a wifi connection.
> performance
> >>>> may be very slow and my poor desktop might
> crash with
> >>>> too many hits. I offer only a proof of concept
> and
> >>>> welcome coments from the list.
> >>>>
> >>>> Right now the demo only works in Mozilla
> Firefox (on
> >>>> Win, Linux and OsX).  If you zoom in far enough
> on the
> >>>> washington DC map you will see aerial photos.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Click the "START HERE" button to start the app.
> >>>>
> http://216.15.56.185:8080/jons/indon/client/test.xul
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks
> >>>> JOn
>