[mapserver-users] ArcIMS Emulations

[Paul Ramsey]

Hey, all you people with Arc8. Open up ArcCatalog, go to 'Create
connection to internet server...' and enter
'http://mapserver.refractions.net' into the URL box. Then drag one of
the services into ArcMap. Voila! What is the big deal? That ain't no
ArcIMS server on that machine: it is Mapserver, with a perl front-end to
make it act like ArcIMS. 

This is dependant on some hacks I've put into my version of Mapserver.
It also is missing support for some of the ESRI 'standard' projection
ids. When the projection stuff is standard in proj4 (Frank is looking at
it) and I have got my hacks cleanly into mapserver/mapscript I'll
release the script. Maybe by then it will also do client preferences for
rendering too... oooooh... (and have more elegant XML handling...)

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     | Paul Ramsey
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     | Email: pramsey at refractions.net
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