[Zmapserver-developers] ZMapServer 0.7.2 and WMS Adapter

[Sean G. <sgi...@fr...>]

Greetings,

ZMapServer 0.7.2 is released and available at

http://zmapserver.sourceforge.net

This release includes a WMS client product, the ZMapServer
WMS Adapter.  I'd really appreciate reports on how the
adapter works.  Some changes have been made to ZMapServer
to make it a more fully compliant WMS server and it now
works very well with the WMS Adapter.  Not that you'd want
to use it this way on the same server.

The WMS adapter is also available as a stand-alone product
which does _not_ require MapServer or Python MapScript.
If you are a WMS map provider, this will be a great product
for your Zope-using customers.  It's quite useable, but I'd
like to add a few more features before I release it to the
Zope community.  The stand-alone is called 'wmsadapter' and
is available through the same sourceforge download page.

Two WMS map providers have granted permission to offer their
map services as starting points for new users.  Thank you
Dante Fuster (REPSAT SAC) and Daniel Morissette (DM Solutions).
DM Solutions led MapServer to OGC WMS compliance and their
service is the seminal MapServer WMS service.

BTW, posting the news of ZMapServer 0.7.0 to zope.org had
great results.  There was a huge spike in site visits and
downloads, with the result that my zope.org members site is
now the first result returned by a Google search for
'Python GIS'.  Wow.

cheers,
Sean

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Sean Gillies
sgillies at frii dot com
http://www.frii.com/~sgillies