[Mapserver-dev] Advice requested

Ned Harding nharding at extendthereach.com
Fri Feb 20 18:54:45 EST 2004


I have our proprietary vector file format as well as a thematic join to our
demographic retrieval engine done and working within MapServer, but right
now I have it pretty hacked in to MapServer and I'm looking for a more
general solution so I don't have to completely reimplement with each
MapServer build.

Would people rather see me implement a CONNECTIONTYPE "Custom" and some sort
of plugin interface so any proprietary data sources would go through the
same function stubs with maybe a run time binding (a structure full of
pointers, similar to C++ virtual functions), or should I just create a
CONNECTIONTYPE "SRC_GEO" and provide stub functions to CVS that say that
file format is not implemented?

Once again, thanks to all the MapServer developers.  This is good stuff.  If
anyone wants to see a rough demo of MapServer dynamically theming with a
choice of thousands of demographic variables, let me know and I'll send you
a link.

Ned.



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