[GRASSLIST:1358] Re: Web Mapping

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:05:28PM +0100, Andreas Lange wrote:
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> > What does happen if 2 processes try to access the ressource
> > D_cell at the same time ?
> That should never be done. Even if it does not crash it will not produce
> anything reasonable. 
> One setup would be to use a temporary mapset within the current location
> for each process to avoid this. Or the CELL code could be modified to
> use a name from an exported variable (see HTMLMAP code how this can be
> done). 

A small addition: You could analyse "grasslinks" how this management with
temporal datasets is done. Currently it is not fully set up here run, but if
GRASS would be properly installed on our *web server*, it would do:
Get it here:
 http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grasslinks/


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> And not to forget: last time i examined the CELL driver in
> GRASS5.0beta10 it was broken somehow. Had no time to find the problem. 
I just generated some images - they looked o.k. But there will be a problem
at least with 24bit color table etc.

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Markus