How to make Moving Symbols using MapScript

[Vdharan]

Thankyou Stephen

Is there any way to use the ROSA applet to implement moving of vehicles.?
Is there any readymade functions to show a dynamic point?.

Regards
vdharan

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:34:55 -0500, Stephen Woodbridge
<woodbri at SWOODBRIDGE.COM> wrote:

>You should be able to do this is with a Java applet or a Flash
>application. And you might be able to do it with xhtml and javascript.
>
>The problem is you need to decide whether the application is going to
>get its new data by push from the server or by polling the server for
>updates. Since the map is not changing except when you pan or zoom it I
>would separate the map image from the vehicles being tracked so your
>client side application can request map changes based on the user input
>and that you get a list of vehicles and their locations as a separate
>stream of data from the server, then you Java, Flash, whatever to draw
>the vehicles on top of the map. make the vehicle update a separate
>thread and your all done.
>
>-Steve W.
>  http://imaptools.com
>
>vdharan wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Iam working on a vehicle tracking system. I want to show symbols
>> representing vehicles to move in the map as and when the co-ordinate of
the
>> vehicle changes. I continuously get the co-ordinate of the vehicles at
>> regular intervals. I want this to happen without refreshing the page.
>>
>> Can any one suggest me a way to do this.
>> Iam using Redhat9 and PHP Mapscript.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> vdharan
>>