[mapserver-dev] REST config API

[Stephen Woodbridge]

bartvde at osgis.nl wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> MXD is a binary file and its format is not published, so this is not
> possible.

Ah! that is a problem. Searching my systems for .mxd files shows them to 
be binary as you say.

Someone sent me one that was an XML document so maybe there is an XML 
counter alternative to the binary format or maybe there is a metadata 
file related to the .mxd file that is in XML. Anyway I know mostly 
nothing about ArcMap.

Ok, so back to your regularly scheduled thread about REST interface for 
mapserver ...

Thanks,
   -Steve W

> 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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