Return of IMSEMU

[Ed McNierney]

Paul -

That's just about where I am, too - I had not yet gotten around to dealing with the bindings needed for ESRI-WKT.  However, as far as I can tell ALL cases are failure cases in ArcGIS 9 / SP1 because none of the WKT is "standard".  At least, that is the experience I have been having; simple objects like datums have names like D_North_American_1983 rather than North_American_1983 and cause failure in all cases.

I would be happy to set up a test case if anyone would like to hit it with ArcGIS 9 with Service Pack 1 installed.

        - Ed

Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
North Chelmsford, MA  01863
ed at topozone.com
(978) 251-4242

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Probably not, but that should be simple enough to add. Might need to do some extra bindings in mapscript for ESRI-WKT parsing though. Howard did this already in PyIMS, but the binding is in python to ogr, not in mapscript. If one is willing to accept a few failure cases in the short term for those WKT examples where ESRI is notably non-standard the existing projectionfromwkt binding should work fine.
P.

Ed McNierney wrote:

> Paul -
>
> Great!  Have you used this with ArcGIS 9 / Service Pack 1?  I've been
> trying to get OUR PHP/MapScript code out to the group, but just when I
> thought we were ready, Service Pack 1 came along and broke everything.
> SP1 switched to using ESRI-flavored WKT projection definitions instead
> of EPSG codes, and I have not had the time yet to deal with it.
>
> - Ed
>
> Ed McNierney President and Chief Mapmaker TopoZone.com / Maps a la
> carte, Inc. 73 Princeton Street, Suite 305 North Chelmsford, MA
> 01863 ed at topozone.com (978) 251-4242
>
> -----Original Message----- From: UMN MapServer Users List
> [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Ramsey Sent:
> Tuesday, November 09, 2004 10:42 AM To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>  Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Return of IMSEMU
>
> Hi all, We are pleased to announce a new and improved version of
> IMSEMU for your emulating pleasure.  For those new to the concept,
> IMSEMU is a script which wraps around Mapserver and speaks ArcXML to
> client software.   This allows ESRI software such as ArcMap and
> ArcExplorer to directly access mapserver services using ArcXML -- no
> special interoperability extensions required. The new version of
> IMSEMU is written using PHP/Mapscript, so the installation should be
> much easier than for the old Perl based version. Assuming you have PHP
> support for Mapscript and DOMXML, just drop the script in the right
> place and go. The new version also adds many features.  The binary
> stream format is now partially supported, so many feature-based
> aspects of ArcXML are supported, such as full preview mode in
> ArcCatalog. There are still things missing, but we are looking forward
> to your help in finding the remaining gaps and filling them in. You
> can download IMSEMU from http://mapserver.refractions.net Paul
>
>