Mapserver + Flash?

[Doyon, Jean-Francois]

I don't know about integrating MapServer with Flash directly, but I've seen
a spanish company that had developped web mapping tools using flash, you can
find the stuff at www.imapper.com.

This is precisely the kind of functionality that would be possible with a
plug-in type output architecture.  The output of the Mapserver would go
either through GD for raster, or some other plug-in for various vector
output formats, such as Flash or SVG.

J.F.

> ----------
> From: 	Stephen Lime[SMTP:steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us]
> Sent: 	Friday, March 16, 2001 11:26 AM
> To: 	mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu; gasser at rockriverstar.com
> Subject: 	Re: Mapserver + Flash?
> 
> I've used flash buttons to control things but never wrapped everything.
> Because flash has
> excellent javascript integration I would think you could take the
> client-side mapserver javascript
> library I've already written and call it from flash. You can see that in
> action with a java frontend
> at maps.dnr.state.mn.us/landview. All that would really have to be new in
> flash besides buttons
> and such is the rubber-band box drawing. I don't think you'd even need
> mapscript although you
> could use custom backends to produce images or queries. Neat idea anyway.
> 
> Steve
> 
> Stephen Lime
> Internet Applications Analyst
> 
> Minnesota DNR
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> 
> >>> Nathan Gasser <gasser at rockriverstar.com> 03/15/01 11:10PM >>>
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Has anyone tried a Flash interface to MapServer?  It seems
> like you could do great things on the client side with
> rollovers and smooth animated scrolling and so forth.
> 
> I know there's a Perl::Flash module, and combined
> with MapScript, maybe something could be done?
> 
> Just curious,
>