A couple MapServer suggestions

[Banister Trevor]

1. Borderless frames with different maps/templates is all I can think of,
probably need some "onload" JavaScript too.

2. I was able to do this with some success, create a new hyperlink URL with
the map size in it.
Pitfall: since you have to hard code the center point for non map clicks,
the "refresh" button doesn't work right for all but 1 of the maps. I've
considered editing the C and adding a new tag like [mappixelcenter] to solve
this, but haven't gotten around to it yet. Maybe we can talk Steve into it?
A kludge would be to make new map/template combinations for each map size. 

Example at: http://www2.spaceimaging.com/maps/ choose the "All Scenes" or
"Recent Cloud free" to see what I'm talking about. Once you're off of the
600x400 size, the requery button sends you further and further Southeast
since it's returning 300 200 as the "clicked" point rather than 200 150 or
100 75.

This site is pre-Alpha, so please be gentle. Scene data is available, but
most of the product imagery is still behind the firewall, and won't be
available. Let me know what you think.

3. Build a static scale bar and use it as a clickable map. You'll probably
have to hard code URLs for different levels on the scale bar, but it might
work. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul G. Allen [mailto:pgallen at randomlogic.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 6:27 PM
To: MapServer Users List
Subject: A couple MapServer suggestions


Maybe some of this is in the works already.

1. I'd like to be able to display multiple scale bars so that I could have
one
in miles and one in kilometers for example.
2. I'd like to be able to change the map image size from the users browser
so
that the user can adjust the map size to fit their screen. Currently doing
this
messes up the reference image and zoom/pan calculations.
3. One of my colleagues would like the ability to scale the map image using
the
scale bar - change the scale on the scale bar and the map adjusts to the
corresponding scale.

There were a couple others, but I don't recall what they were at the moment
(no,
I didn't write them down :)

PGA