The Atlas of Canada: New AJAX-like MapServer Interface

[Janice Denovan]

Hello Jean-Francois,

Beautiful, fast, functional and great documentation. You have built the
best web map i have ever seen!

Runs great in Mozilla1.9 - Runs great in Netscape7.1 - Does not run in
IE6...hangs before amimated_map_status1.gif loads? Thanks in advance for
any ideas on my IE6 issue.

-Janice


On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:34:14 -0400, Doyon, Jean-Francois <Jean-
Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCAN.GC.CA> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>The Atlas of Canada recently deployed a new mapping interface for it's
>MapServer delivered maps.
>
>This interface implements an AJAX-like paradigm, with the main difference
>being that instead of using XML for client-server communications, an
>invisible Iframe and HTML is used.  This avoids the potential ActiveX
>security problems on IE browsers, and makes the whole system much simpler
>IMHO.
>
>This interface was also thoroughly tested for usability (Interviews, focus
>groups, one-way mirrors, etc ...) by our target audience, which is the
>general public and the educational community.
>
>Here are a few examples:
>
>http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/maps/economic/si/ls/l10
>http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/maps/peopleandsociety/immigration/imfb_01
>http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/maps/peopleandsociety/QOL/eco_qoluc_p
>http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/maps/environment/seaice/break-up
>
>You can view any of our hundreds of maps using the menu on the left.  Note
>that Reference Maps and Archive Maps are not MapServer driven.  Archive
Maps
>do have a similar type of interface implementation however.
>
>I look forward to getting some feedback from the MapServer community!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Jean-François Doyon
>Internet Service Development and Systems Support / Spécialiste de
>dèveloppements internet et soutien technique
>Canada Centre for Remote Sensing/Centre Canadien de télédétection
>Natural Resources Canada/Ressources Naturelles Canada
>http://atlas.gc.ca
>Tel./Tél.: (613) 992-4902
>Fax: (613) 947-2410