My comments inline: On Tuesday 24 January 2006 09:10, Arnulf Christl wrote: > Jørn Vegard Røsnes wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > just wanna know what's your preferred WMS (/Mapserver) client? > > > > cheers > > Joern > > Hi Joern, > my preferred WMS/WFS(-T) client is Mapbender - but i am not "all"... > Maybe better reword your question and say what you need. Or try out the > list below and report the results back to the corresponding lists. > > Mapbender (D-HTML, PHP, JavaScript, SQL, XML) > http://www.mapbender.org > The best OGC WMS, WFS/T, WCD, WTS client administration, visualization, > analysis, tool ever. Includes authentication, authorisation, security > proxy, and so on. Comes with a large set of Free or Open WMS service > URLs. (forgive me for boasting, but this is my baby...) > Seems very promising, but I ran into integrations problems with databases (mySQL: no connection, PostgreSQL: connected but "Edit GUI-elements" is not working). Not solved so far, put on hold for now. A lot of German in mailinglist, so it's hard to find info. Little traffic on mailinglist.
> MapBuilder (D-HTML, JavaScript, XML) > http://www.MapBuilder.org > Cool, lightweight WMS and WFS/T capable client interface, high affinity > to the GeoServer tribe & part of their download package. Very active and > open development group (makes me green with envy). > Hard to setup and complicated configuration. > iGeoPortal (D-HTML, JSP, JavaScript, XML) > http://deegree.sourceforge.net/ > Part of the large self contained architecture deegree, makes heavy use > of every imaginable OGC standard. One of the other Java tribes besides > GeoServer and GeoTools. > Not investigated so far. > ka-map (D-HTML, JavaScript, XML, AJAX) > http://ka-map.maptools.org/ > Rather cool project by DM Solutions Group, right from the core of the > MapServer PHP API developer. Maybe this could become the synthesis of > many years of client development. They are very modest in describing > what they have done. Seems like they are somewhat reluctant to make > people understand what they did. Tststs... > No documentation! > Chameleon (D-HTML, PHP, JavaScript, MapScript) > http://chameleon.maptools.org/index.phtml > Somewhat older project with correspondingly large user group. Dev'd by > DM with focus on MapServer, less OGC. > Seems to be very MapServer oriented. > CartoWeb3 (D-HTML, PHP, JavaScript, MapScript) > http://cartoweb.org/ > Large self contained architecture making heavy use of MapScript, less > OGC but cool stuff like routing with PostGIS (still beta?), load > balancing, etc. > Seems to be very MapServer oriented. cheers Joern
