[mapserver-dev] REST config API

[bartvde at osgis.nl]

Steve,

MXD is a binary file and its format is not published, so this is not
possible.

Best regards,
Bart

> This might be a little off topic, but ...
>
> I think it would be nice if we had a tool that could take mapfile and
> generate an ArcMap MXD(?) or whatever the equivalent to a mapfile is for
> ArcMap. Maybe this is nothing more than another XSLT file the remaps the
> mapserver XML mapfile into MXD file. And may be do the same in the
> reverse direction.
>
> -Steve
>
> bartvde at osgis.nl wrote:
>> Hey Jeff,
>>
>> as an example usage, Jeroen Ticheler's company Geocat is developing an
>> ArcMap extension which can talk to the Geoserver REST interface to
>> export
>> an ArcMap project into Geoserver. IMHO, it would be very cool if this
>> tool, which is not gonna be open source btw but proprietary, could be
>> used
>> against Mapserver the same way it can be used against Geoserver.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Bart
>>
>>> I'm following this thread closely (because yes it involves the side of
>>> MapServer we always seem to forget, the user side)...but I am having a
>>> hard time picturing the end product (I don't see a link to a demo on
>>> the
>>> geoserver link that Bart provided).
>>>
>>> That said, if this is really the next 'MapEdit', maybe we need to
>>> gather
>>> some funding providers together and develop this MapServer REST API.
>>>
>>> -jeff
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jeff McKenna
>>> MapServer Consulting and Training Services
>>> http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/
>>>
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