[Mapserver-dev] hierarchical map files

[Titus von der Malsburg]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 04:52:42PM +0000, bertelli wrote:
> thank you very much for your suggestion. I'm not very good at setting up
> make, so, if you send me some sample file it would save a lot of time.

I'll outline it in a litte HOWTO document and post it on
this list later this weekend.

> BTW, I was planning a somehow similar approach, putting every information
> about layers inside a table in a database and generating the mapfile with a
> query, but I think hierarchical map files make sense.

You are right, maybe make/cpp is not everyones taste.  But do you know
QuantumGIS (http://qgis.org)?  It's a quite nice clone of ArcView and
has the ability to export mapfiles and could therefore be used as a
WYSIWYG editor for Mapserver maps.  The exporter is incomplete in the
current version, but the code is very readable and straightforward.  It
should be very easy to round it out, I guess.

Maybe I will have the time to work on it in the next weeks -- maybe
someone else on this list is interested in working on it?

	Titus