[gdal-dev] MapServer interface

[Chaitanya kumar CH]

Gary,

I think it would be better if you give the requirements for your
application, the general way you would like to develop it and the
technologies you are comfortable with.

Best regards,
-- 
Chaitanya kumar CH.


On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Smart, Gary <Gary.Smart at goodrich.com>wrote:

>  Thanks Craig,
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> But perhaps you can give me a clue as to how to set up a WMS and interface
> with it (or where some documentation may exist online)?
>
> I got the impression the WMS was only driven from XML files?  I’m afraid I
> still haven’t got my head around what is a WMS and what is MapServer!
>
>
>   ------------------------------
>
> *From:* Craig Miller [mailto:craig.miller at spatialminds.com]
> *Sent:* 15 July 2009 21:20
> *To:* Smart, Gary
> *Subject:* RE: [gdal-dev] MapServer interface
>
>
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> Would it work for you to setup MapServer as a WMS, then use the GDAL WMS
> driver?
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> *From:* gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Smart, Gary
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:25 PM
> *To:* gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* [gdal-dev] MapServer interface
>
>
>
> Still a newbee to this so forgive any daft questions.
>
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>
> In an answer to a previous question of mine, it was hinted (thank you Even)
>  that I could possibly MapServer to return tiles of rasterised maps for
> display using my display application.  From my initial studies, MapServer
> seems to be aimed at HTML based applications.  However, I want it to return
> tiles of imagery which I can render using my C++ application.
>
>
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> Am I right in thinking that this must be done via XML, scripts and files
> (e.g. I request a tile from the server (not sure how) and it returns a
> rasterised map file which I could open via GDAL).
>
>
>
> Really, I was hoping for a more direct API whereby I can generate a server
> request directly from my C++ code and get the raster tile back similar to
> the GDALDataSet::RasterIO call?
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> Any clues?
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>
> *Gary***
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