[mapserver-users] Need direction for enhancing Mapserver

[Chan B. Huynh]

Hi everyone,
First, I'd like to thank all the ones who have helped me with all my puzzle
the past weeks. I now have the digital map of world up and running
beautifully on my NT server with my own source .  I will need a kind soul to
direct me enhancing Mapserver to do the following:

The interface would be very much like the MapServer Applications: MODIS
Download Facility written by TerraSIP and UMN in the gallery link on
mapserver webpage. Instead of only the Great Lakes area, I need to have a
DGM world map like the Australian worldmap in the gallery.  Besides all the
zoom-in/zoom-out/pan east-west-north-south-ne-nw-se=sw function, the
end-user can draw a rectangular-area/drag-a-box on the window map.  The
mapserver will grab that coordinate of the lower-left and upper-right corner
of the selected area and convert that to lat/long.  Once I have this
lat/long, it will be fed into my already-written C++ program which produce a
"peffile" in ASCII format (readable by notepad/wordpad) responsive to user
selected area and avaliable for download from the webbrowser.

Now, having said that, does mapserver support all that I want to do?  If
not, what is the best way I can tackle this?  Is it worth of my time to
re-compile mapserver, play with it and see what I can do with it and add my
part into it?

All suggestions and hints are appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
-chan