[ANNOUNCE] MapServer Console: AXL 2 Mapserver converter

[Abe Gillespie]

I'm looking forward to giving this a try.  Unfortunately the
downloadable archive (0.9) is broken.  Would you please fix this and
let us know?

Thanks.
-Abe

On 11/9/05, Umberto Nicoletti <umberto.nicoletti at gmail.com> wrote:
> During the last month I have been working on a conversion program
> called MapServer Console that strives to generates valid and working
> mapserver .map files from AXL files.
> The software is currently in beta* and is available from cvs and
> through sourceforge.
>
> I haven't had a chance to try it on Windows yet so I cannot guarantee
> that it will work reliably or at all on that platform. All other
> UNIX-like platforms that can run Java at least 1.4 should present no
> problems.
>
> The software is at the site:
>
> http://msconsole.sourceforge.net
>
> Notes for Windows users are on the download page:
>
> http://msconsole.sourceforge.net/?page_id=11
>
> And the feature list is here:
>
> http://msconsole.sourceforge.net/?page_id=7
>
> Please note that the site allows for anonymous comments, so you can
> post your thoughts there, if relevant.
>
> The AXL files I usually work with are generated from Arc Explorer 9,
> so the features available are limited. On the other hand customization
> is very easy so new features will be supported with a reasonable
> amount of work.
>
> I hope you enjoy it as much as I have done while writing it!
> Umberto
>
> * I called this release a beta only because the number of supported
> features is not complete, but in fact the sofwtare is very stable.
>