On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Santiago Gala wrote:
> I'm not a GIS expert at all, and I'm not sure if I understand. I'm > currently downloading the jar you pointed us to, to know more. Essentially the url demo.asemantics.com/wms/asf?request=GetCapabilities gives you metadata - in there you find that you can get jpegs and png's and that there is a layer 'comloc'. You then request lat-lon boxes from a layer as gif or png's. You do this from several servers; overlay them and present them. But because each request is a simple URL it is very easy to make very dynamic web interfaces with little more than <img src="... > xplanet can be "sliced" to show only parts of the world. So we could > have a "fixed" imagemap with zones, also generated at a bigger scale, or > use the xplanet images as background for the WMS map. Ah nice. > Ben started rather "static" WRT display. I'm just adding tooltips and > links to the URLs given. I saw that. Nice. > The map1 variant would need to be recalculated to show "true" nigh and > day, something like once an hour, at least. It also uses "available.gif" Or have one for each hour (and regenerate them once a month). > from the apache distribution icons reduced to half size. It could be > turned to "unavailable.gif" following criteria like jabber presence, > etc. This would call for a fully dynamic app (rebuilding when a > committer signs on or off), or at least something that rebuilds every > few minutes. Right; we use Secure Dynamic DNS for that inside our company. > If we want to keep it mostly static, I would say that having a regional > division where Things would get progressively bigger could be a > solution. The upper layer could be like map.jpg or map1.jpg is now. For > inner layers, either the zoom of xplanet or the GIS system could be used: Ack - WMS also has a feature called 'GetFeatureInfo' which allows you to query a point. > Click on Europe (very crowded), then you get only Europe. Ditto for the > States, Oceania, etc. Right - that is why I did the WMS interface; so you can zoom into any level. Dw. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
