[mapserver-users] RE: Measure tool?

2010-11-12 Thread Lime, Steve D (DNR)
OpenLayers? From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Bistrais, Bob Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 9:33 AM To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [mapserver-users] Measure tool? Does anyone have code for a simple measure

[mapserver-users] RE: Measure tool?

2010-11-12 Thread Bistrais, Bob
No, I'm building an app using MapServer with PHPMapscript. Is there something in the OpenLayers code that can be used here? From: Lime, Steve D (DNR) [mailto:steve.l...@state.mn.us] Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 10:41 AM To: Bistrais, Bob;

[mapserver-users] RE: Measure tool?

2010-11-12 Thread Lime, Steve D (DNR)
MapServer and PHP/MapScript are server-side. There's no reason you can't use just about any client-side technology with that, OpenLayers being one option and there are others. Most others are higher level frameworks built atop OpenLayers. Steve From: Bistrais, Bob

Re: [mapserver-users] RE: Measure tool?

2010-11-12 Thread Alexander Petkov
Hey Bob, Do you already have the client-side code for user-drawn polygons? If so, what are you using? Like Steve mentioned, OpenLayers will do what you want, drawing of geometries included. Alex On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Lime, Steve D (DNR) steve.l...@state.mn.us wrote: MapServer and

[mapserver-users] RE: Measure tool?

2010-11-12 Thread Ludwig Kniprath
Hi Bob, we use clientside javascript-functions. They both need an array of points (digi_points) with real-world-coordiantes (properties pointX and pointY) as input-parameter. This array is filled by clicks on the map, the click-coordiantes (pixel-distance from the click-point to the upper left