[mapserver-users] Building Mapserver with Ming support - prob lem

Puneet Kishor pkishor@GeoAnalytics.com
Tue, 10 Sep 2002 18:36:27 -0500


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marie Flanagan [mailto:theflan@gofree.indigo.ie]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 6:06 PM
>To: mapserver-users@lists.gis.umn.edu
>Subject: [mapserver-users] Building Mapserver with Ming support - problem
>
>
>Hello Mapserver Users,
>
>I have been using Mapserver 3.5 on (Solaris/Apache web server). To 
>introduce more flexibility at the front end I have been using our 
>own middleware and perl scripts to produce dynamic HTML - to 
>provide additional information on mouseover.  BUT it's not 
>enough..... 
>
>.... we want to be able to turn on/off layers, 
>use nice icons dynamically at the front end

both can be done with Perl/Mapscript as is.

>mouse over to provide extra information and links to images 
>or other pages, .  

there was tiny little discussion on this about 3 days ago. This starts to
get more complicated.

>Flash might be the way to go to provide snazzy maps.  

some work has been done on this, methinks. Search for Flash or swf on wilma,
the list archives server.

pk/