[mapserver-users] Reading MapServer output as a theme in Arcview

Frank Koormann frank.koormann at intevation.de
Wed Jan 9 00:07:46 PST 2002


Tyler,

* Tyler Mitchell (TMitchell at lignum.com) [020109 03:57]:
> 
> Thanks for the comments,
> I am aiming at the user desktop where editing functions that people may
> already be used could be used.
> I was thinking along the lines of writing some Avenue or VBA extensions
> (combined with other shell scripts or programs) to query a mapserver and
> return the results to Arcview/ArcGIS as a georeference image.

This clarifies your question a bit. If Arcview is able to obtain an image
from a web source you might build an approrpiate URL with AV scripts
using "mode=map" as MapServer mode. Alternatively you may call the
shp2img binary.

Regards,

        Frank

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