You are corrent. I problem is that I am not sure how to get the SOAP web service to work. I do not have much experence in this area. I guess I am looking for a script that can turn mappoint into a wms call for mapserver using Python/PHP/Perl. Do you have any examples that can get me started?
Thanks Aaron On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:01 AM, ROBERT HOLLINGSWORTH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In other words, you want to have Mapserver consume Mappoint and pass along > the images along with Mapserver's own layers to a client app? > > Mappoint is SOAP-based? If so, what I'm doing with ESRI ArcWeb Services > SOAP may be similar enough to what you're trying to do to be of interest. > > A couple years ago I added ArcWeb SOAP support directly to Mapserver > 4.8.3. See "integration with SOAP-based web services?" Jan 2008 in > Mapserver -dev for some explanatory details on > that.<http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-dev/2008-January/004765.html> > > Meanwhile, for a current project I decided it would be better to use > PHP/Mapscript instead of adding directly to mapserv (.exe). I found > something called "wsdl2php" which extends SoapClient. Run it on your wsdl > file(s) and it generates a .php filled with classes and methods in support > of your SOAP requests and replies and data types from the wsdl. > > In my case, a WMS client wants the results, so I have a place-holder LAYER > in the mapfile, TYPE RASTER, TRANSFORM FALSE. I use clues in the mapfile > plus the WMS request params to generate the SOAP request, then stuff the > returned image into a raster file of the requested format so that mapserver > will scoop it up as if it had been there all along. > > If you need any more details feel free to ask. > > Robert H. > > > > I am using Virtual Earth as the front end of a web system and mapserver as > the mapping engine for the reports. Does anyone have any experence or know > of any resouces that can help me use Mappoint web services with Mapserver? I > want to use Mappoint for the background imagey so my PDF reports look like > the map on the screen. > > Thanks for any help. > > -- > Aaron D. Hunt > > > > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > > -- Aaron D. Hunt
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