I was wondering the same thing: Do you sleep Paul???<br>
<br>
I'm going to have to poke at the code. I'd be REALLY interested
in getting it worked into Chameleon. I'm gathering it might
require a re-vamp of Chameleon??, and of course more dev time for
ka-Map...<br>
<br>
Can you comment to the list Paul as to what kind of effort this will
involve? So we can either get excited in the short term or wait
patiently for the future. I have a bunch of sites to develop
using Chameleon over the next while and this kind of speed would
certainly make me very happy. Especially if it's something I
could potentially upgrade to fairly easily when it's ready.<br>
<br>
Liz Godwin<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/18/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jacob Delfos</b> <<a href="mailto:jacob.delfos@maunsell.com">jacob.delfos@maunsell.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Paul,</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">You must have been extremely busy with all that. Do
you in fact sleep?</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The performance from here (other side of the world)
is fantastic, and the navigation very smooth and nice. Look forward to seeing
this integrated into Chameleon.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Jacob</font></div><div><span class="e" id="q_103eee518707cc66_1">
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:chameleon-bounces@lists.maptools.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">chameleon-bounces@lists.maptools.org
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18 May 2005 05:14<br>To: <a href="mailto:mapserver-users@dmsolutions.ca" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mapserver-users@dmsolutions.ca</a>;
<a href="mailto:%27chameleon@lists.maptools.org%27" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">'chameleon@lists.maptools.org'</a><br>Subject:
[Chameleon] ka-Map: new open source project</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">ka-Map: new open source
project<br>===============================</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://ka-Map.maptools.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://ka-Map.maptools.org/</a></font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">DM Solutions Group is pleased to annouce the
release of a new MapTools <br>open source project aimed at the growing interest
in highly interactive, <br>javascript mapping applications based on
MapServer. Here are some <br>details ...</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">ka-Map provides many of the features that one
should expect in a <br>state-of-the-art web-mapping application.</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Features include:</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* tile-based continuous panning</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* no page reloading</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* keymap, legend and scalebar</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* zoom in/zoom out</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* keyboard navigation</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* sliding effects for panning on double click (ok,
that one's for fun!)</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">We have also implemented some advanced features
that are more in tune <br>with the MapServer community's needs:</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* configuration can include multiple map files with
different extents, <br>image formats, and scales for each map file. Client
side interface can <br>include the ability to change between map
files</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* ability to have layer visibility controls by
drawing each GROUP as a <br>separate HTML layer on the client side</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* ability to use HTML legend template to build more
advanced layer controls</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* flexible tile caching system</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">* separation of the javascript logic from the HTML
page to provide an <br>API with which to build your applications</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">ka-Map is built on AJAX principles and uses the
XmlHttpRequest object to <br>communicate with the server, providing a much more
responsive user <br>interface. The server side is implemented using
PHP/MapScript (what <br>else!) but could easily be replaced with anything that
would spit out <br>the equivalent javascript in response to the various
requests.</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">ka-Map uses cached tiles generated on demand by
drawing much larger map <br>images and slicing them up. The caching
mechanism is currently quite <br>simplistic and could not handle large data
projects, but it is <br>definitely sufficient for getting started. There
are issues with this <br>kind of tile generation, but it is almost essential for
performance <br>given the current state of the art.</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">ka-Map is aiming to be an API for developing
mapping applications. As <br>such, we are hoping it will be picked up by,
and integrated into, some <br>of the other open source projects such as
MapBender, ZMapServer, <br>GeoServer, and (of course) Chameleon.</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The home of ka-Map is:</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://ka-Map.maptools.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://ka-Map.maptools.org</a></font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Downloads and CVS are not quite ready, but you can
try out the interface <br>by visiting our first public site based on this
technology (basic <br>features only in this one):</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://maps.dmsolutions.ca/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://maps.dmsolutions.ca/</a></font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Subscribe to the user list to find out when
downloads and CVS access are <br>available, and also to participate in the
ongoing development and <br>testing of this new technology.</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/ka-map-users" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/ka-map-users
</a></font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">We are hoping this project will engage the
MapServer community's <br>interest and gain momentum from user
contributions. Please join up and <br>start contributing if you are
interested in this technology!</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Sincerely,</font></div>
<div> </div>
</span></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Paul<br>--
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