[Mapserver-west] Intro: Ken Sanderson, Miistakis Institute, Calgary AB

[Gregor Mosheh]

> I like the functionality for adding photo's and
> documents, and the 
> annotation and email tool looks pretty slicl.

M hm. The annotate-and-email is brand new, and uses
J-Painter. Sadly, J-Painter is not free software, but
it only costs $150 for a one-domain license - a great
price, in my opinion.

Go ahead and play with the demo if you like. It was
made as a demo, so tinker away. :) The
annotate-and-email captures the map image, and lets
you draw on it, then email it to someone.



> What data is being collected for each 'tree' and to
> what purpose is the project?

Originally, it was part of a community project (esp
for some high school students) to report and discover
the types of trees found in Eureka. We made this
interactive map as a demo, and the project just never
went anywhere. Now it's just a great demo of our
product: it takes less than 5 minutes to build a map
like this, not counting the time to upload your
shapefiles.

As far as the data for each tree: When we were given
the data, most of the data fields had uninituitive
names like "field7" and seemed to be meaningless. One
of the fields is obviously the tree's species, the
rest are obscure and since the project never went
anywhere we never found out the rest. Sad.


> I suspect our methods are similiar, mine too is
> being done using php/mapscript and Adodb.

Ah, then I'm sure they're quite similar. The added
docs + files is a simple related table, using the gid
as the join. The files are stored as MIME-encoded text
in the DB. It's a bit of a performance hit for
fetching the docs, but it was easier than maintaining
a list of external files

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