[Mapserver-users] newbee-questions: clients, data access, dynamic layers, cascading servers

Sean Gillies sgillies at frii.com
Thu Aug 28 12:00:55 EDT 2003


On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 09:31  AM, Daniel Morissette wrote:

> Frieso ter Haseborg wrote:
>>>> 1.) What are common open-source web-gis-clients? We just want to 
>>>> check some alternatives.
>>>
>>> Not sure what you mean, WMS or WFS client or just a web browser?
>> Both. WMS and WFS Clients - I prefer browser-based, but if there are
>> non-browser-clients - I would at least take a look at.
>
> There are several WMS clients around but you'll find very few WFS 
> clients. Here are a few links:
>
> - MapLab's MapBrowser is a WMS client:
>    http://www.maptools.org/maplab/index.phtml
>
> - Chameleon v1.0 is all about WMS client applications, version 1.1
>   still under development will make it less WMS-centric:
>    http://www.maptools.org/chameleon/index.phtml
>
> - I believe Degree also has a WMS client:
>    http://deegree.sourceforge.net/
>
> - And GeoServer also has at least a WFS client:
>    http://geoserver.sourceforge.net/
>
> - Also a 100% client side JavaScript WMS client:
>    http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?JavaScriptMapServer
>
> I know this list is very incomplete... these are just the first names 
> that I thought about.
>

If you are a Zope user, there is the WMS Adapter for Zope:

     http://zmapserver.sourceforge.net/wmsadapter/

cheers,
Sean

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