mapserver is the Linux (open source, most popular of the open source options) of Internet map serving software (ArcIMS (that I work with) is the Microsoft of map serving software - commercial, closed, but owns most of the commercial market). mapserver has been around a while, and is a big proponent of the OGC open protocols (WMS, WFS, etc).
David
At 02:45 PM 12/12/2005, Andrew Leichter wrote:
Pretty cool application. Here's what it is.
First, the olsrexperiment website is a Mambo site. The mapping application is in an iframe. I was able to get to this url from there:
http://www.olsrexperiment.de/samples_bln/htdocs/sample_other.phtml
The title of that page is Chameleon Samples. Search on Google took me to http://www.maptools.org/
Looks like it's all Open Source. (Open Source is KING) On the home page there is a link to the Chameleon project. I just spend 5 min looking at it so I'm no expert but it looks like it is a client to a larger Open Source mapping application. Probably for the MapServer project (also linked on the maptools page).
Chameleon project: http://chameleon.maptools.org/index.phtml
MapServer project: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/
I'll have to take a look at it when I have more time.
Andrew
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Looking into it more, its the OLSR Dot Draw plugin with a custom frontend. Perhaps reading geograpical location from a static table somewhere.
So... how to get the Dot Draw output into that nice purty gui.
On 12/12/05, Ryan Briones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
- It appears that they have their own mapping data and mapping engine (either custom written with purchased maps data or purchased app and data) since it's not watermarked with anything (Google, Yahoo, etc) They've put together a heck of an app, but you could easily do the same thing with Google maps (polylines, custom markers), with the exception of the smaller click-and-drag selection map, afaik. The IP's would have to be info bubbles too.
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- http://www.olsrexperiment.de/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=48&lang=en
- now, how the hell did they do that?
