Is ErMapper's IWS helpful with MapServer?

[Daniele Rizzo]

Good!
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Stefano Parodi wrote:
> We use IWS and UMN MapServer together.
> Here you can view an example:
> http://ecozero.liguriainrete.it/CartoWebIWS/CwMain.asp?CwContext=http://ecozero.liguriainrete.it/MapServer/tmp/691109366context.xml&CwContextCatalogo=D:\Inetpub\Eco-internet\mapfiles\vincoli\VincoliContextCatalogo.xml
>
> We use the ecw plug-in to display the raster data served by IWS, while the
> vector data is from a WMS served by MapServer.
> The ecw plug-in has the abiliy to query remote gis server that can serve
> data in gif/png/jpeg format, so it's easy to integrate it in a OCG/WMS
> architecture.
>
> The advantage of the plug-in is the high grade of interactivity, like Frank
> said, similar to google maps.
> The next version of IWS seem different and apprently more similar to google
> maps, using tiling images and without the use of a plug-in (it's all done in
>  javascript) here an example:
> http://www.earthetc.com/maps/
> As you can see it seem a google maps clone.
>
> best regards,
>
> Stefano.
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