[mapserver-users] WMS client / Community Map Builder project

[Claude Philipona]

We are currently working on such a project. We have different web community
around mountaineering sports in the Alps (Alpine mountaineering ski,
mountainerring, rock climbing, hiking)(until yet only in french, soon in german,
italian, english), where people can exchange their experience and keep the others
informed about conditions or itineraries. We will include a service where people
are able to interactivly create itineraries, georeference hut or summits to share
with the community. The system also includes support of GPS: one can upload and
download data to/from GPS. I think our specification will suit most needs for
outdoor and touristic activities

1) Visualizaion Module (100% finished)
After a few tests (wms mapserver, php-mapscript, we chose to use directly
php-mapscript of mapserver 3.5 instead of WMS, because the Mapserver
implementation of WMS has for now only limited features compared to php-mapscript
(no styles, not possible to change on the fly the parameter of the mapfiles,...)
so it is easier to use directly phpmapscript to meet our specifications. (however
we could relativly easily rewrite the module using wms). We have build the module
in such a way that many web sites can easily integrate map fucntion from one
single mapserver (the different map):

Navigator <----(http/html)----> websites1..n(php) <----(http/wddx)---->
mapserver(php-mapscript)

Like Gmap, we have a pure html version, and a version enhanced with rosa applet
features

2)Georef Module (add, modify, delete geo objects) (80% finished)
We have build a java applet (awt) which communicates via http/wddx with
mapserver(php-mapscript) (all the features available in the visualizazion module
are also available in the applet. With the applet we can add, modify, delete
simple geo objects of type point, (poly)lines, polygon. For now, we can edit only
one object at the time. We can manipulate the points either with the mouse or by
entering the coordinates and altitudes using entry boxes.
The geo object are then save with postgis. To have optimum performance with
visualization(more vizualizazion access compared to edti access), we generate the
shapefiles (faster with mapserver) from postgis.

3)GPS module
PHP class to upload/download waypoints/routes from/to a GPS. With proj4, supports
translation between many datum and projection.

We cannot give an url for demo yet, because we don't have rights yet to publish
the map. I will try to setup a demo site with free maps soon.

We are very interested with the mapbuilder project, and could join it if the
specification are compatible with our needs.

Claude Philipona


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> [mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu]On Behalf Of Cameron
> Shorter
> Sent: vendredi, 28. septembre 2001 23:55
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu; wms-dev at intl-interfaces.net;
> geotools-discussion at lists.sourceforge.net; postgis at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [mapserver-users] WMS client / Community Map Builder project
>
>
> Two things:
>
> Web Map Server Client
> =====================
> 1. With some help from others, I've just finished getting standard
> Web Map Service (WMS) Client functionality into the geotools applet.
> (It is
> still needs polishing, but it works).
> 2. We've implemented double buffering, so that you can get immediate
> feedback as you pan/zoom, and the map layers get redrawn as they become
> available.
> 3. I have a demonstration which accesses 2 different Web Map Servers,
> but you should be able to access as many as you like.
> 4. You can see a demo at:
> http://newgate.socialchange.net.au:8080/geotools-dev/OGCExample.html
>
>
> Community Map Builder Project
> =============================
> http://mapbuilder.sourceforge.net
>
> Building the WMS client is just the first step in my grand plan of
> building an open source map data entry tool - which essentially is a Web
> Feature Server (WFS) Client - plus a little more.
>
> I'm looking out for like minded developers, or people who just want to
> be
> keep informed.  I'm particularly interested to hear ideas about
> developing Web Feature Servers (WFS) and whether this should be done
> with PostGIS.
>
> Check out the site and join one of the email lists if you are
> interested.
> http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=35246
> Join the announce list if you want to be notified occasionally of
> milestones in development.
> Join the developers list if you want to join discussions about further
> development.
>
> --
> Cameron Shorter          Web Mapping Manager
> Social Change Online
> 248 Johnson St           Tel: +61 (0) 2 9692 5115
> Annandale NSW 2038       Fax: +61 (0) 2 9692 5192
> Sydney, Australia        http://webmap.socialchange.net.au
>