[mapserver-users] New tool to check out

[Tom.Kralidis at ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca]

Stephen,

Can this be exposed as a web service, i.e. calling from HTTP instead of PHP
natively.

The first step could return the list of places in XML, and the second step
can return a map image of one placename.

Thanks

..Tom


> -----Original Message-----
> From: woodbri at swoodbridge.com [mailto:woodbri at swoodbridge.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 11:17 AM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu; Tom.Kralidis at ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca
> Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] New tool to check out
> 
> 
> 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
> > 
> > =================================
> > Tom Kralidis
> > Systems Scientist
> > Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
> > Tel: (613) 947-1828
> > http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/
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> > 
> 
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