[ka-Map-users] Design goals: Combining WMS servers and launching with zoom an layer parameters?

[Paul Spencer]

Stefan,

currently the api is pretty lean.  You would accomplish your goals by 
editing config.php to include your map file.  The map file extents are 
used as the initial view.  The map file can contain references to WMS 
layers.

A custom back end could easily be written to cause WMC to be loaded.

I don't have any plans to add this but would be willing to consider 
contributions along these lines.

However, for your kind of application, you might want to consider 
MapBuilder ... from what I understand, it is designed to work extremely 
well with OGC stuff.  It lacks the continuous pan with tiling but does 
include tons of great functionality in a pure javascript client.

I'm hoping to collaborate with Mike and Cameron to get the ka-Map style 
rendering into their architecture so that we get the best of both worlds.

Cheers

Paul

Stefan F. Keller wrote:
> Hi Paul
> 
> Nice thing! I'd like to use this in our local map site
> (http://webgis.hsr.ch) as well as in an experimental geo-spatial search
> engine called geometa.info (http://geometa.info) which is language and
> location aware. 
> 
> I'm referring to the posting of Daniel and Paul's original announcement and
> I'd like to put this in bugzilla of course, if you think this is the right
> place. I'm using currently an adapted version of InlineWMS:
> http://www.geometa.info/map/world_demis2.html and I have two other questions
> regarding the design goals of ka-map:
> 
> 1. Can I use it as a self contained 'rich' client who combines one or
> several WMS servers?
> 
> 2. Can I start it with URL parameters - similar to Web Map Context Documents
> (WMC) - so that ka-map launches zoomed in on a particular place with
> specific layers (= WMS servers) turned on?
> 
> Regards
> -- Stefan 
> 
> 
> 
>>Daniel Morissette dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca 
>>Tue May 17 17:39:22 EDT 2005 wrote
>>Forwarding a copy of Paul's original announcement, for the list 
>>archives...
>>
>>
>>
>>ka-Map: new open source project
>>===============================
>>
>>http://ka-Map.maptools.org/
>>
>>DM Solutions Group is pleased to annouce the release of a new MapTools
>>open source project aimed at the growing interest in highly interactive,
>>javascript mapping applications based on MapServer.  Here are some
>>details ...
>>
>>ka-Map provides many of the features that one should expect in a
>>state-of-the-art web-mapping application.
>>
>>Features include:
>>
>>* tile-based continuous panning
>>
>>* no page reloading
>>
>>* keymap, legend and scalebar
>>
>>* zoom in/zoom out
>>
>>* keyboard navigation
>>
>>* sliding effects for panning on double click (ok, that one's for fun!)
>>
> 
> 
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