[Chameleon] Re: help new bie!!!

[Jeff Hamm]

Dharani;
I agree with Chris's comments ([Maplab-users])regarding ease of developing web
applications, the Chameleon approach is more flexible.
I suggest you exploit the capability of Mapserver to handle your spatial data
handling requirements, and Chameleon, or some similar parsing engine, to put the
resulting maps into your desired presentation format.

My favourite resources are:
1. PHP (http://www.php.net);
2. Mapscript
(http://www2.dmsolutions.on.ca/mapserver/php_mapscript/php_mapscript_docs35.html);

3. Mapserver (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc/mapfile-reference.html);
4. Chameleon (www.maptools.org)
5. These most excellent user lists:
   [Maplab-users] http://lists.maptools.org
   [Mapserver-users] http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wilma/mapserver-users

As for starting a web mapping application all over again from scratch, I
especially enjoyed the reference Frank W. passed along
(http://www.neilgunton.com/rewrites_harmful/).

Good Luck !

Jeff





Dharani Babu wrote:

> Hi
> I am dharani babu from india . A VC++ developer . I found ur mail id from
> chameleon mailing list.
> I will be very grateful if u could help me start my Map project . I am
> supposed to develope
> a web mapping application . I have been successful in drawing couple of
> county maps of US
> from TIGER files ( the RT1 files ) with VC++.But I am supposed to develope
> an application that
> looks like map lab . And I have been asked by my PM to look for Map Lab open
> source code to develope
> such application .As of now I know only about intrepreting LOngitude ,
> Latitude pairs and
> getting a projectable screen points . But my solution lies somewhere with
> the Map Lab OS code .
> But the Map Lab is something very big for a starter like me . So I dont know
> where to look for what .
> So please advise me on this .
> With thanks in advance
> dharani babu , chennai , india
>
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