[mapserver-dev] REST config API

[Dan Little]

Are you thinking of an AXL file?


----- Original Message ----
> From: Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com>
> To: bartvde at osgis.nl
> Cc: MapServer Dev Mailing List <mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> Sent: Thu, April 1, 2010 2:41:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-dev] REST config API
> 
> 
> href="mailto:bartvde at osgis.nl">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
>>
>> 
> ymailto="mailto:bartvde at osgis.nl" 
> href="mailto:bartvde at osgis.nl">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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