[Mapserver-users] mapserver and extern interfacing

[Pierre GIRAUD]

To be very simple, it is hopefully possible to connect mapserver to 
external source of datas. First of all using WMS for example.
To be more concrete, we developped Cartoweb, an application using 
php-mapscript that can operate with multiple servers. In most cases, it 
is used including a cartoserver and a cartoclient. The first one 
generates the images (map, scalebar, icones), the request results, and 
pass all the application parameters to the cartoclient in xml-rpc 
format. The cartoclient is in charge of the setup the output page, in a 
browser readable format (HTML). The shapefiles and database (geospatial 
or not) are stored in the cartoserver. Several cartoclients are able to 
request the same cartoserver and we can imagine that they should be able 
to request different cartoservers, or WMS servers.
For the last point, you should take a look at moximedia's demos that use 
external data from demis WMS which are good examples.

Hope I answered your questions.

Pierre GIRAUD
camptocamp.com

Sébastien DUBOIS wrote:

>hi all,
>if you take  allok to the proprietary software like arcims soft, you'll see that
>most of these soft works like servlets and allow interfacing with other
>servlets which give them .xml or other.
>my query is to know if mapserver can work like this.
>Let's explain this more .
>yet it's possible to use a database like postgresql to load layer.
>but is it possible to send .shp to mapserv for a layer from an extern source
>(without work with the database as a intermediary)
>in other words is there an api of mapserv which allow to custumize this soft?
>
>thanks in advance
>  
>