A demo of Generating Google Tiles With mapserver

[Sean Gillies]

Thanks for being a good sport about my Python vs Perl joke :)

I'm sure there would be a lot of javascript that could be shared
regardless of the mapscripting language.

Sean

On May 7, 2005, at 10:32 AM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:

> Sean,
>
> Yeah, that is exactly what I meant! :) Jon has done an great job of
> getting something working, while I have only generated a lot of really
> BIG numbers. I'd rather be putting my time to adding features to the
> cool work Jon has done instead following in his foot steps and probably
> not doing it as well.
>
> -Steve
>
> Sean Gillies wrote:
>> Steve,
>>
>> Don't you mean "help to obfuscate it"? :)
>>
>> Sweet work, Jon!  Yves Moisan and I need to talk to you about whether
>> we can use this code in our Plone mapping product.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Sean
>>
>>
>> On May 7, 2005, at 10:18 AM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>>
>>> Jon,
>>>
>>> Very nice demo and performace is very good also. I would be
>>> interested
>>> in converting it to perl/mapscript and help to improve it.
>>>
>>> -Steve W.
>>>
>>> Jon Saints wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have implemented a demo using python mapscript and
>>>> mapserver that gives very basic functionality simillar
>>>> to google maps.
>>>>
>>>> I do not pre-render maps at the various scales.
>>>> mapscale are rendered on the fly and the indiviual
>>>> tile images are sent directly to the user - never
>>>> saved on disk.  I know this will cause problems for
>>>> labeling, but there may be a way around this with some
>>>> DHTML tricks.
>>>>
>>>> Please remember that this demo is running off of my
>>>> desktop computer over a wifi connection. performance
>>>> may be very slow and my poor desktop might crash with
>>>> too many hits. I offer only a proof of concept and
>>>> welcome coments from the list.
>>>>
>>>> Right now the demo only works in Mozilla Firefox (on
>>>> Win, Linux and OsX).  If you zoom in far enough on the
>>>> washington DC map you will see aerial photos.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Click the "START HERE" button to start the app.
>>>> http://216.15.56.185:8080/jons/indon/client/test.xul
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> JOn