[Mapserver-users] New ArcView Extension for MapServer

[Dave McIlhagga]

Hi Till,

Thanks for your work and making this available.  Has your group (or 
others) begun work on or begun looking at an ArgGIS 8.x utilitiy to 
generate mapfiles etc.. based on what's shown in ArcMap?

Dave

Till Adams wrote:
> 
> Dear list,
> 
> we proudly can present a new ArcView utility for MapServer based on the 
> ideas from Ross Searle. The extension is freeware and could be 
> downloaded from:
> http://www.terrestris.de/links_e/downloads.html
> 
> You can design your view in ArcView as you want your MapServer and then 
> run the AveiN! wizard in order to generate the required files (mapfile, 
> template, ...).
> 
> In comparison to the existing tool, we enlarged the functionality 
> enormous, embedded a set of dialogs and re-designed the whole extension 
> in a more usable way. The extension is able to write three different 
> html templates, one with pure html, one with the rosa applet and one 
> with a javascript solution and also writes the query_templates and the 
> init.html.
> There is a big set of line- and pointsymbols and patterned fills 
> included and the possibility to define your own symbols.
> 
> We can also hand on the extension set-up file to the mapserver utilities 
> page if desired.
> 
> Any comments, suggestions, bugs or whatever are very welcome! We keep on 
> working on further functionality and usability!
> 
> Cheers,
> Till
>