MapClient
A Desktop-Like Browser Interface for MapServer
This is a slightly extended version of the
presentation
I held at the first Mapserver User's meeting
at the university of Minnesota in St. Paul. Mapclient is a set of JavaScript
functions that can be used in Mozilla 1.3, Netscape 7.1 and Internet
Explorer 5.5 and up, to display maps generated by
MapServer.
It features:
- Movable and resizable windows
- Movable buttons, menus submenus and sliders
- Movable and closable HelpFrames
- ServerFrames to send requests to the Web server and process the results
- Job control, i.e. scheduling server requests one after another
- Multi-server WebMapping
I cannot present the interactive application itself to the world yet, as I did
at St. Paul's, for this will require additional facilities on the
Beowulf cluster at SARA computing center
(www.sara.nl).
This will come in the near future, but for the time being you'll
have to do with screenshots.
The application,
(about 2000 lines of JavaScript code)
has been completely developed with Open Source software.
It is as good as
finished; no new functionality will be added in the near future, and changes to
the interface during the testing phase will be kept to a minimum.
Documentation is available in the
and
Guides, and
in the basic
from the User's Guide,
which, by the way, already provide more functionality than is available in
current commercial WebMapping technology.