[mapserver-users] WMS capability

[Kralidis, Tom]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: YC Nyon [mailto:ycnyon at pd.jaring.my]
> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 9:01 PM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: [mapserver-users] WMS capability
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I don't know too much of Opengis, WMS happening around this 
> part of the
> world (Asia). Try to read up in opengis.org but seems to be a lot of
> guidelines.
> 
> Therefore, i have a couple of 'basic' questions.
> 1. I am running PHP-MS 3.6 with WMS support. does that mean 
> other mapping
> servers like ArcIMS can call the layers?
> 

Any client which understands and obeys the OGC WMS specification can make
HTTP requests to any OGC compliant WMS, of which UMN MapServer is one.

> 2. Is there any desktop software (Arcview, Mapinfo, etc)  
> that can call a
> layer from a WMS-compliant Mapserver ? and if yes, will the 
> layer be raster
> or vector ?
> how about security issues.
> 

There may be others, but I am aware of the MIT Ortho Tools Avenue extension
which can do this.  Unfortunately, the link does not work.

http://tull.mit.edu/mitortho2/

Hope this helps

..Tom


> TIA.
> 
> Nyon
>