[mapserver-users] Migration to MapServer

[adams]

yUser,

I think it's more a client specific issue, what you are looking for. 
Mapserver is able to serve your street-maps , but it is not a client 
(=user interface), which googlemaps also delivers.
Perhaps you should have a look on OpenLayes, if you look for a good 
replacement on that side.

Some answers:
1. OSM (www.openstreetmap.org) - you'll have to set them up as 
mapserver-maps and in mapserver you may make them look like the googlemap.

2. see openlayers (wqww.openlayers.org)
3. definitively scriptable but I think there is nothing out-of.the box.

One week is not many, specially if you are not familar with the mapping 
stuff in general and mapserver and/or openlayers or other client-side 
software...

Regards, Till




yUser wrote:
> Hello, Am new to MapServer. What I am trying to achieve is the 
> following: I have a Google Maps web application which shows bicycle 
> routes. Users can then search from those bicycle routes (javascript). 
> As I am learning more about MapServer I am also wondering if migrating 
> from using Google Maps to MapServer will work for this particular 
> application. 1. Any ideas about finding City of Toronto Routes and 
> Street data? (I found some data but I am wondering if they will have a 
> similar look and feel like the Google Maps - maybe not too cool but 
> should be good enough to see streets and roads rather than just line 
> segements). 2. Other than that I will have to allow users some 
> capability to draw polylines on the map. Does the MapServer scripting 
> allow drawing of polylines? 3. If there are points on a map and if a 
> bounding box rectangle is drawn on the map, can the MapServer script 
> allow finding which points are within the bounding box (with lat/lng 
> cooordinates)? Hoping to get all of this done within 1 week or so..I 
> hope this is a reasonable time estimate for this migration. If you 
> have ideas about this, please let me know? Thanks.
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