[mapserver-users] SWF output demo site?

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi Daniel, list,

if you look at this site (it's in Dutch unfortunately) they have a raster 
background layer which is zoomed in at the flash client side (no server 
contact).

http://www.friesland.nl/risicokaart2/risicokaart/risicokaart.htm

-Pick something from the combo box in top of the page (like the second one, 
"Ameland")
-Press the (+) button several times to zoom in until you get the raster 
background, and pan a little bit towards the urban area in the west.

It is just a high-quality raster which is being zoomed in on client-side, 
don't you think? It performs pretty well, but I heard they use tiled swf 
files which are ready on the server-side.

Is a thing like this possible with mapserver? For instance can you prepare 
tiles in SWF which are served by mapserver? Or could it be created on the 
fly fast enough? Could this be a useful enhancement, or is it more a GDAL 
issue?

Bart

On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 12:26:55 -0400, Daniel Morissette 
<morissette at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:

> Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
>>
>> I remain with one basic question after your clear response.
>>
>> What is the advantage of using raster SWF layers above normale GIF or 
>> JPG
>> images?
>>
>
> I am not the SWF expert (Assefa is) so hopefully I won't be writing
> something stupid here...
>
> If I remember correctly, you can embed GIF/JPG images inside a clip as
> you create the client app in the Flash IDE, but you cannot load a
> GIF/JPG image via a URL using Action Script.  That's why the raster
> layer has to be embedded in a small clip by MapServer... just so that
> you can download the layer on the fly from your Flash app.
>
> Daniel



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