[maplab-users] Is MapLab really working?

[Vito Meuli]

Hi Zak.
Thank you very much for your useful suggestions.

I'm using FGS (fgs-mapserver_phpmapscript_4.8.2-1.2-linux-i386.bin) and maplab 
2.2.1.

It seems to go better, but it is still samewhat unreliable. Maybe it is as you 
said about the map application written in PHP. I don't understand why "it's 
easy to put the mapfile in an invalid state when editing it with mapedit".
You mean that MapEdit can write an invalid mapfile itself?

I created invalid mapfiles (without a STYLE object wrapping a COLOR statement, 
for example) when I wrote them by myself, but I thought that creating and 
editing them only using MapEdit would lead to valid mapfiles everytime.

Now i'm try to use it the same, at least trying to find out what a way of 
building a mapfile with it can be.
I write mapfiles by myself, with a text editor, but I need to let other people 
do this, and they are scared from writing such code lines...

I'll let you know how it is going.
Thanks again!

Cheers,
Vito


Alle 15:35, lunedì 08 gennaio 2007, Zak James ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> With the 4.3.9 version of PHP, it should be functional. 4.3.11 had
> some changes in how references were handled that broke mapedit. PHP
> 4.4 resolved the issue so that is the recommended version for Maplab.
>
> Maplab is just php code and should work with any functioning
> mapserver/php mapscript installation. You may want to try
> http://maptools.org/fgs/ if you're having trouble with your setup.
>
> As always, the fatal drawback of a map editing application written in
> php is that things go awry quickly if php mapscript encounters an
> error parsing the mapfile and stops execution of php. Since it's easy
> to put the mapfile in an invalid state when editing it with mapedit,
> this is a common problem.
>
> zak
>
> On 1/8/07, Vito Meuli <v.meuli at tecnologieavanzate.it> wrote:
> > Hi everybody!
> >
> > A bad question to pose, but I really need an answer to it:
> > Is MapLab really working?
> >
> > It's already a week that I'm struggling with it, but on my main server
> > (Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS4, with its PHP 4.3.9-3.15) it is unreliable,
> > it crashes every 5 mouse clicks...
> >
> > Now I'm trying with Host GIS Linux, an old one with PHP 4.3.11, but until
> > now it doesn't work.
> >
> > Can you suggest me a reliable way of installing it?
> >
> > Is it going better with Windows?
> >
> > Bye
> > Vito
> >
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