[mapserver-users] ArcIMS Emulations

[Kieran J. Ames]

While PHP is a popular thing, I'd like to cast my vote to maintain the Perl
development.
(Call me old-fashioned!)
Kieran

Brian Fischer wrote:

> Paul,
>
> Wow, it works great and it is blazin fast.  It works just like you are
> connecting to Geography Network.  This adds a big selling point to
> Mapserver.  It is hard sometimes to convince clients that MapServer is
> the better choice over other IMS's.  This was one of the sticking points
> that clients would bring up.  This is great news.  Would there be any
> limitations to what OS this script could run on?  I run MapServer on
> Windows.  I know Perl is not the popular choice of MapServer/MapScript
> users that use Windows.  Is a port to PHP possible?
>
> Another thing I commonly run into is clients that store all their
> imagery in Mr. Sid format.  I know there has been some discussion in the
> past about the possibility of adding Mr. SID support to MapServer and
> the conclusion was it would not be that easy to do.  Has anyone else
> found a creative solution to convincing clients that have imagery stored
> in Mr. SID to use MapServer over another IMS that supports Mr. SID
> imagery?
>
> Great work Paul.
>
> Have a good day,
> Brian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Ramsey [mailto:pramsey at refractions.net]
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 4:35 PM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: [mapserver-users] ArcIMS Emulations
>
> 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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