UMN Mapserver on mobile devices

[Puneet Kishor]

Rainer Spittel wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
>   It just came in my mind: I wonder if is might be possible to setup a UMN
> Mapserver environment on a mobile/handheld device (cellphone, PocketPC
> etc.)? So the MapServer runs on the PocketPC including core geospatial
> datasets (contours etc.) and accesses a WMS through the internet connection.
> May there is a "ms4mob" ? ;-)
> 
>   Does anyone has experience with that? Is there a documentation available?
> 


no answer here for your specific question, but -- why would you want to 
run MapServer on a handheld when you could use the browser on your 
handheld to access MapServer installed on a real computer? I mean, that 
is the whole point of running a server, so remote and mobile users (and 
not just those holding mobile devices) can access the data. All you 
would have to do is create a small-screen optimized version of your 
site; fairly easy to do if you are using a scripting environment with 
some kind of templating system.