Hi,
I built a simple squeak app as a browser plugin, for which I would
like to be able to use raster- or vector maps as a background landscape.
Ideally, the (user of the) app should send a request for a map to
some map-server, specifying the coordinates of the clip and maybe some other
parameters as well.
My problem is that I am not able to figure out how to build such a
map-server (in Squeak of course) using squeak features that are already
available.
Should I start at the swiki level and try to extent it, or look at
Commanche only, or will Squeak-specific media offer in the end more
perspectives (Squeak-books, ImageSegments, etc).
The following steps are essential:
1) browser plugin squeak-image sends request for map with
certain parameters to internet server squeak-image.
2) The latter processes this request, selects a clip from
the (very large) map it has available, does some further processing (maybe
vectorizing the rasterdata), and finally answers a (potentially fairly
large) file with map-data either in some GIS format, or as Squeak-objects.
3) the browser plugin image receives this file, creates
objects from the data (or uses the objects directly), and displays the
landscape.
Anybody with some hints on how to set this up?? I am not aiming at
the perfect map-server, but the steps 1-3 should be possible!
thanks a lot!
Hans Baveco
ALTERRA, Green World Research
Department of Landscape Ecology
Tel: 31.317.477964
Fax: 31.317.424988
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Post: ALTERRA-DLO
P.O.Box 47
6700 AA Wageningen
The Netherlands
