[Mapserver-users] Using MapServer as a general graphing engine

[steff]

It's possible to do it with PHP using gd. i do it to add a logo on the 
map before displaying it with phpmapscript.

W. Steph wrote:

> Just a thing :
>
>> But as far as I know there is no possibility to include
>> externally produced images and merge them on top of the map image.
>
>
> There's a very simple way !
> Just don't display the image with php, but use a java applet instead. 
> Then, you'll can be able to do whatever you waqnt with the image, 
> including adding other images. The only problem is that some colors 
> can change a bit with some image types (I think png in an applet 
> hasn't good colors but this may have change in latest versions).
> I'm using this method in order to let the user draw new polygon and 
> multipoint layers on the map (and then I use geoserver WFS to send the 
> data to the PostGis database) and it works very well.
> Adding charts and other dynamically generated images on a map 
> (assuming you can calculate the good coordinates where to display the 
> image) isn't a problem using java !
>
> I think you'll be able to test my java-based web application about the 
> end of september, if you want to see it up and running :p
>
> Steph
>
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