Preferred client

[Arnulf Christl]

Jørn Vegard Røsnes wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> just wanna know what's your preferred WMS (/Mapserver) client?
> 
> cheers
> Joern

Hi Joern,
my preferred WMS/WFS(-T) client is Mapbender - but i am not "all"... 
Maybe better reword your question and say what you need. Or try out the 
list below and report the results back to the corresponding lists.

Mapbender (D-HTML, PHP, JavaScript, SQL, XML)
http://www.mapbender.org
The best OGC WMS, WFS/T, WCD, WTS client administration, visualization, 
analysis, tool ever. Includes authentication, authorisation, security 
proxy, and so on. Comes with a large set of Free or Open WMS service 
URLs. (forgive me for boasting, but this is my baby...)

MapBuilder (D-HTML, JavaScript, XML)
http://www.MapBuilder.org
Cool, lightweight WMS and WFS/T capable client interface, high affinity 
to the GeoServer tribe & part of their download package. Very active and 
open development group (makes me green with envy).

iGeoPortal (D-HTML, JSP, JavaScript, XML)
http://deegree.sourceforge.net/
Part of the large self contained architecture deegree, makes heavy use 
of every imaginable OGC standard. One of the other Java tribes besides 
GeoServer and GeoTools.

ka-map (D-HTML, JavaScript, XML, AJAX)
http://ka-map.maptools.org/
Rather cool project by DM Solutions Group, right from the core of the 
MapServer PHP API developer. Maybe this could become the synthesis of 
many years of client development. They are very modest in describing 
what they have done. Seems like they are somewhat reluctant to make 
people understand what they did. Tststs...

Chameleon (D-HTML, PHP, JavaScript, MapScript)
http://chameleon.maptools.org/index.phtml
Somewhat older project with correspondingly large user group. Dev'd by 
DM with focus on MapServer, less OGC.

CartoWeb3 (D-HTML, PHP, JavaScript, MapScript)
http://cartoweb.org/
Large self contained architecture making heavy use of MapScript, less 
OGC but cool stuff like routing with PostGIS (still beta?), load 
balancing, etc.

There are many more clients out there, but probably not so many packages 
that implement clean OGC WMS and even less WFS.

Once you find out which is the one and only, tell us.

:-)

Best, Arnulf.