[mapserver-users] MapServer Animation Examples of Pipeline Flow?

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 12:06:37PM -0600, Bill Thoen wrote:
> What won't work is rendering the entire map image each time; that would 
> go from eye-catching to mind-numbing pretty fast. So is there a way with 
> MapServer to display a map base, but allow for objects to be "floated" 
> on top in such away that I don't have to re-render the the entire map 
> each time? (like an AJAX tool for mapserver?)

"An AJAX Tool for MapServer" is probably best solved by OpenLayers.

  http://openlayers.org/

The closest thing I can think of to 'flowing' in our examples is:

  http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/rotate-features.html

But I know that others have done things like flight tracking with
OpenLayers as well. 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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