Base Technology for WMS

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi Bernie,

I would also suggest looking into Chameleon, it is a flexible,
fully-featured WMS client technology based on php/mapscript, made by DM
Solutions Group, see:

http://www.maptools.org/chameleon/index.phtml

Best regards,
Bart

> Hi folks,
>
> I'm new at Mapserver and want to implement a webmapping environment with
> database access. I've decided to use mapserver to visualize and query
> shapefiles and data stored in Postgis.
> First I want to start with a viewer for shapefiles with navigation
> functionality (rectangle zoom), measuring tools (line and area), layer
> management (set visible) and qery tools (e.g. get waterquality information
> for a zip code area).
>
> Now I've found information about using php/mapscript, javascript/dhtml
> (itasca example) or java. It would be very thankful for any suggestions
> hwo
> to realize the navigation and measuring in a rubber-band manner.
>
> Cheers
>
> Bernie
>