[mapserver-users] Anyone used MapServer to draw (things other than maps) with?

[Lime, Steve D (DNR)]

I've done a bit of this with river cross sections but IMHO there are simply better tools out there. Personally I like matplotlib although the learning curve is a little steep. You can do a lot with not much code.

Steve

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From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Bob Basques [Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 9:54 AM
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Subject: [mapserver-users] Anyone used MapServer to draw (things other than maps) with?


All,


I'm needing to draw some simple, but longish charts showing a GPS timeline.  I'm thinking about trying to set up MapServer to generate them dynamically.


In the past I would have went to PGPLOT for this type of thing (It's what I used for mapping before finding MapServer), And I see that it's installed in Ubuntu now by default.


So, my question, is this worth anything to anyone else?  has anyone done this already, got any pointers?  The data is all in POSTGIS, so I have a fair level of flexibility with formatting the data for MapServer use.  I could for example format my data in such a way as to fool mapserver into thinking it's some sort of map projection for display, etc.  I assume all should work well with straight Cartesian Coordinates.


Thanks


bobb




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