Congrats Morgan, Cris, Tim, Percy & Will! Can't wait to start to use it myself, and I am very much looking forward to seeing it get used by the community. You guys are doing some great work... keep it up!
Aaron +----------------------------------------+ | Aaron Racicot | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | GIS Programmer | 360.221.2441 | +----------------------------------------+ | e c o t r u s t | | Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center | | 721 NW Ninth Avenue | | Suite 200 | | Portland, OR 97209 | | www.ecotrust.org | +----------------------------------------+ -----Original Message----- From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of percy Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 11:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Map-Fu, your personal Ninja for Web-Mapping We are delighted to announce a new open source framework for web-mapping, your personal Ninja of web-mapping, ladies and gentlemen, it's: *Map-Fu* Available for download, contribution of code, or reporting of bugs at our not-so-secret location on sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/map-fu/ It features a true object-oriented PHP-Mapscript backend, with a variety of classes and interfaces, ease of extensibility, and other configuration zoink-zoink. On the front end is a fat Javascript client, using XMLHttpRequest to communicate with the server for updating the map and map-related data. It employs JSON for messaging and goes for a Web 2.0 feel. Some features on the front-end include pop-up tabs for reference map, legend, map information and query results. We try to maximize screen area for the map, since that's what we are interested in visually! Based on Minnesota Mapserver (of course) and PostGIS, we developed this interface to satisfy actual needs of clients for creating web-mapping applications that served SPECIFIC needs and required SPECIFIC tools. Some production sites that are using the Map-Fu or related codebase (formerly known as YAMI (Yet Another Map Interface)): http://glaciers.us - A database of glacier change in the Western US, including a linked assets database of aerial and oblique photos from the last century http://www.oregongeology.com/sub/ogdc/index.htm - The most up-to-date geology compilation for Oregon, soon to be used for other states! http://oscdl.research.pdx.edu/ - Oregon Sustainable Communities Digital Library, a temporal database of regional planning for the Portland Metro area (ten years of regional planning data, plus links to documents tied to spatial objects) We look forward to collaborating with a larger group of developers, and receiving feedback on our efforts! We're interested in incorporating the OpenLayers interface, and "through the web" feature editing via WFS-T. In the current vacuum of viable enterprise GIS solutions, we see this as a ripe time for rapid development! The Map-Fu development team, Morgan, Cris, Tim, Percy & Will Portland State University ----
