PDA version of MapServer

[Peep Krusberg]

> I am curious to know if anyone is doing anything with mapserver
> generating images for the PalmPilot or WinCE.  I am hoping to
> find time to do something soon if there is some interest, please
> contact me.  The wireless market seems to be really moving right
> along ;)
>
> Another area of interest is data compression.  These shapefile
> datasets (Tiger/GDT/DMTI) are overly massive.  I have found a
> company who will build a proprietary format and API for reading
> compressed indexes and map data, but it has 2 major problems
> (1) It will be expensive to develop and deploy and (2) It is
> proprietary.
>

Hello!

- WAP (www.wapforum.org) standard includes 'compression' of tags
(WML and binary XML - WBXML) as well as special raster data format
(.wbmp, some converters etc www.gelon.net/dev/).

- there are standards like JBIG and very soon JPEG2000 (www.jpeg.org).

Regards, Peep
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Peep Krusberg
Projektijuht / Project Manager, MSc
AS Eesti Kaardikeskus / Estonian Map Centre, Ltd.
Mustamae tee 33, 10616 Tallinn, Estonia
Tel: +(372) 6529 976; Fax: +(372) 6542 108
E-mail: peepk at ekk.ee