Hi, Bob. Thanks for your note. The choice of authentication is wide
open at this point. We just need to have basic user/password functions
and some concept of groups so that access to data can be controlled by
organization. Why do you ask?
I have not looked at Mambo. Have you? Tell me about your project. Is
there anything online I can check out?
Creation and maintenance of the layers is crucial, but would be handled
internally so the interface would not need to be as slick as that
presented to customers. I believe that Mapbender, for example, uses OGC
services exclusvely but assumes that those services are all set up, i.e.
no features for creating those layers AFAICT, which is okay. We could
set them up by hand at first and eventually build a back-end app, perhaps.
Neil
Bob Basques wrote:
Neil,
Can you describe more of the authentication process you would like to use.
Are you planning on implementing the Authentication in the Mambo
environment?
I have a new project that might fit your bill. But alas there's not
much documentation put together for it yet.
The layer aspects are all configured separately. Each layer is managed
separately by it's respective owner and accessed separately by the
Client. The General idea was to place control and upkeep of the data in
the hands of the data creators and not bother the system admins with
work related to updating and maintaining the datasets.
bobb
Neil Best wrote:
[ I encountered some of kind of glitch while trying to submit this
through the web interface, that's why the empty item from me. I
wanted to include an old item that aligned well with my agenda and
that seemed like the obvious way, but I ended up doing it with good
old cut and paste after all. ]
Eduardo, I found your note to mapserver-users while searching the
archive for any sign that others have been down this path before.
That was some time ago and I'm not sure I can do a good job of finding
other related threads since then, but what you describe sounds very
similar to the task that I have recently taken on, to find a web
mapping framework based on open source tools that maximizes leverage
of existing code while providing extensibility, maintainability, and
scalability. This application will provide access to specific data
subsets and analysis tools under a subscription model to a diverse
group of users so by definition user profiles will drive the content
and client-side tools presented by the application. This entails far
more than just slapping together some layers and putting a map on the
web, plus it needs to happen *fast* so building a web site from
scratch is not an option. To these ends I will be evaluating a small
set of packages after conducting a brief survey of Mapserver-based
projects in general, including but not limited to:
Cartoweb http://www.cartoweb.org/
Mapbender http://www.mapbender.org/
PrimaGIS http://www.primagis.fi/
I have been studying these projects in web space and have started
evaluating them in user/admin space and have already begun to form my
own opinions and impressions. It would be great to hear from members
of the community who have insight into these issues and learn from
their experiences. Maintainers and contributors to whichever
framework(s) meet my basic needs while demonstrating that additional
features can be developed rapidly and efficiently can expect to hear
from me in the near future soliciting proposals for a range of
services from client-side functionality to back-end integration and
management of data services, development efforts that could and should
make their way back to the code base of their respective projects. If
you are still reading then you must be interested, so drop me a line!
Whether on- or off-list is up to you, but any comments at all are
welcome. My employer is very serious about this so I earnestly hope
that this will generate some traffic and enthusiasm.
Sincerely,
Neil Best <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Forest One, Inc.
http://www.forestone.com/
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 21:45:11 -0300, Eduardo Patto Kanegae
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>I'm currently looking for a MapServer *framework* to build MapScript
>applications inside another application : MamboServer.
>
>Just to clarify, MamboServer ( www.mamboserver.com ) is a free CMS
>software written in PHP and have a lot of great features.
>
>Now, we want to integrate MapServer inside Mambo as a mambo component.
>
>I was thinking to use Chameleon as preffered mapping framework, but is
>my suggestion right?
>
>Can I do it? Or chameleon can just work alone? I mean, can I use
>Chameleon widgets to load MapFiles,
>draw maps but inside another PHP application? ( because, we need to
>validate user rights, etc...)
>
>another idea I was thinking about is to develop OGC maps, to be used
>with desktop applications (JUMP,uDig,ArcGIS OGC,...)
>and also a set of "mirror" maps using NON-ogc access , to be used by
>PHP/MapScript applications. I was thinking in doing
>things this way to get some "speed" on web applications. But, is this
>really necessary? Or OGC maps should be enough
>to feed web MapServer clients and desktop clients?
>
>thanks in advance.
>
>best regards.
>
>--
>Eduardo Patto Kanegae
