Google maps w/ satellite imagery

[Dan Barron]

Mind if I throw out this question?

With Google Maps using the Ajax concept (some info here -
http://digitalsqueeze.com/drupal/node/3053) - has anyone
tried/contemplated/dabbled at this approach using mapserver?  Creating a
map with mapserver can be fairly quick, reloading the page can take time,
depending on your interface implementation - but if you only had to pass
the map image back, that would be a huge step forward for the user experience.

Dan

At 10:19 AM 4/7/2005, Mike Davis wrote:
>Ed-
>
>Thanks for the response, I agree that the approach used by Google,
>TerraServer, etc... is rather limiting to those of us who really like
>to tinker with our on-line maps.  I know I have a great time exploring
>Mapserver/IMS sites, checking out all the layers, and browsing around
>to my hearts content.
>
>That being said, I think there is definately a need to improve the
>user experience in web-mapping applications.  Users can be notoriously
>unforgiving when forced to wait, with anything less than instantaneous
>response considered "slow".  For those instances when flexibility is
>not the primary concern, the ability to pre-generate tiles and cache
>them on the client might be a good solution.
>
>Despite the limited nature of Google's mapping site, it definately
>raises the bar for the rest of the web mapping community.
>
>-Mike