Sent to you by Hugo via Google Reader: Dracones: A Web Mapping Framework for MapServer via Slashgeo by Satri on 1/20/10 Christian writes "I have created Dracones, a Python and JavaScript web mapping framework based on MapServer, which I think could be of interest to the open source web mapping/GIS community. This framework began its life as a surveillance application for Montreal Public Health. After a lot of refactoring sessions, I had the idea of abstracting a set of core client/server services, that would become the framework, and to rewrite the original application in terms of those. Thus the set of features provided by Dracones stems from pre-existing application needs, rather than the opposite. In a nutshell, here is what Dracones provides.
On the client side: * A lightweight but powerful map widget (100% JS), with state of the art features like AJAX-based smooth scrolling, visual selection and info tooltips * An extension mechanism to define new UI behaviors (e.g. what happens when clicking on the map, or drawing a selection box around objects) On the server side: * A set of Python classes and functions (written on top of Python-MapScript) that encapsulate the application state, and ease the interaction with its map objects * A well-thought extension mechanism, to define custom requests and queries Dracones also provides a bunch of other application-centric features, like easy map image export and undo/redo. Last but not least, I've been very careful in writing the documentation and tutorials, which I think cover a wide range of issues and possibilities. This work is still in Alpha stage, and I will be of course very interested to hear the community's comments and suggestions." Read more of this story at Slashgeo. Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to Slashgeo using Google Reader - Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites
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