[Dspatial-develop] Re: Mapserver dll and DSpatial

[Patrick <pva...@us...>]

Hi Bart,

I don't know exactly how DSpatial comes into the picture, but I doubt if it 
would be useful. Mapserver itself is a front-end application, so if you want 
to integrate DSpatial with it, the latter would be a backend data provider, 
much like for instance PostGIS. However, most (all?) data formats supported 
by DSpatial are also available through GDAL, which is already integrated 
with Mapserver. I am, however, interested in the possibility, although you 
would be on your own mostly as I do not have a lot of time to devote to 
this.

What would potentially be possible and interesting is having Mapserver 
initiate and handle requests to *process* data, rather than simply visualize 
it. I do not know if this possible at all, but it would be worthwhile 
investigating it.

Let me know what you intend to do, if anything at all, and I'll see where I 
can be of help.

Groeten,
Patrick
Lead developer


"Bart van den Eijnden" <BE...@Sy...> wrote in message 
news:s2e...@sy......
Hi list,

we are currently looking into the possibility of turning UMN Mapserver 
(http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu) into a C dll accessible with a Delphi 
interface.

Could DSpatial be used/extended as a front-end for this? I can think this is 
problematic because most of the stuff DSpatial does is then managed by 
Mapserver internals (visualize, symbology, reading data, query, project data 
etc). I would love to hear some ideas though how this could be integrated.

I did see PROJ.4 integration is on the DSpatial wish list, maybe this could 
open up some possiblities.

Hope to hear from you guys.

Best regards,
Bart

Bart van den Eijnden
Syncera IT Solutions
Postbus 270
2600 AG  DELFT

tel.nr.: 015-7512436
email: BE...@Sy...


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