[mapserver-users] Announcement: Dracones, a web mapping framework for MapServer

[Barend Köbben]

Hi Christian,

Thanks for bringing this. It looks like a very promising framework, but
while checking out your examples I did notice that the client apparently is
not registering a CTRL-click in my setup (Firefox 3.5.7 on MacOSX 10.6),
nothing ahpens (SHIFT-drag and doubleclick work). This makes the client side
app a bit handicapped...

Yours,


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On 20-01-10 17:31, "Christian Jauvin" <cjauvin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear MapServer users,
> 
> I have created Dracones, a Python and JavaScript web mapping framework
> based on MapServer, which I think could be of interest to the open
> source web mapping/GIS community. It is available at:
> 
> http://surveillance.mcgill.ca/dracones
> 
> This framework began its life as a surveillance application for
> Montreal Public Health. After a lot of refactoring sessions, I had the
> idea of abstracting a set of core client/server services, that would
> become the framework, and to rewrite the original application in terms
> of those. Thus the set of features offered by Dracones stems from
> pre-existing application needs, rather than the opposite.
> 
> In a nutshell, here is what Dracones provides..
> 
> On the client side:
> 
> * A lightweight but powerful map widget (100% JS), with state of the
> art features like AJAX-based smooth scrolling and visual selection
> * An extension mechanism to define new UI behaviors (e.g. what happens
> when clicking on the map, or drawing a selection box around objects)
> 
> On the server side:
> 
> * A set of Python classes and functions (written on top of
> Python-MapScript) that encapsulate the application state, and ease the
> interaction with its map objects
> * A well-thought extension mechanism, to define custom requests and queries
> 
> Dracones also provides a bunch of other application-centric features,
> like easy map image export and undo/redo. Last but not least, I've
> been very careful in writing the documentation and tutorials, which I
> think cover a wide range of issues and possibilities.
> 
> This work is still in Alpha stage, and I will be of course very
> interested to hear the community's comments and suggestions.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Christian Jauvin
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