[mapserver-users] New tool to check out

[woodbri at swoodbridge.com]

Tom,

Yes, I have a Tiger based geocoder that already works as a service. 
The question becomes how do you want the API to look.

What I did with the Tiger geocoder was to write a php wrapper around 
it so you could call it as a php function, like 

   $results = geocoder($name, $country, $dbflags, $exact);

and $results would be either a hashed array with keys like:

STATUS   = error return code if it encountered a problem
COUNT    =  number of db hits returned
NAME      = array of names, COUNT long
LAT          = array of LAT values, COUNT long
LON         = array of LON values, COUNT long

it would be possible to do something similar for the vmap0 or any 
mapserver app to fetch map pages or to fetch map images if you just 
wanted to imbed them as static images on a page. I haven't played 
with WMS features yet but that is what they are designed for right?

-Stephen Woodbridge
 http://iMapTools.com

On 19 Sep 2002 at 11:00, Tom.Kralidis at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca wrote:

> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: woodbri at swoodbridge.com [mailto:woodbri at swoodbridge.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:00 AM
> > To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> > Subject: [mapserver-users] New tool to check out
> > 
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I just got a world-wide place name geocoder working. It has over 7
> > million records in it and it links the results to a Mapserver
> > (modified maplab) viewer using vmap0 data for the world base map.
> > 
> > I will be making some changes to both over time, but thought I would
> > share them with you if your interested.
> > 
> >     http://iMapTools.com/geocode.php
> > 
> > -Stephen Woodbridge
> >  http://iMapTools.com
> > 
> 
> Stephen,
> 
> This is pretty impressive.  Is/can this be setup as a service, i.e.
> GetMap by placename?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> ..Tom
> 
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> Tom Kralidis
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> Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
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