Re: [pmapper-users] How measure in meters?

2008-11-18 Thread Armin Burger
you cannot correctly measure in m when you projection is lat/lon if you do not use at least an approximation function, something like 'Distance on ellipsoid'. You could do a quire coarse calculation applying a factor in the config that converts from degrees to m, it will be ok for N-N but less

[pmapper-users] Coupling PyWPS with pmapper

2008-11-18 Thread Christian Braun
Hi Armin, Hi list members, I am wondering how or if it would be possible to couple/combine the p.mapper application with a PyWPS service? If possible what would be needed to develop in terms of libraries, functions etc.? Are there any affords done in past or is this a complete new approach what I

[pmapper-users] Google Maps layer

2008-11-18 Thread Gabe
Hi everyone I have a requirement to provide a web mapping app for use in Swaziland and I have had a hard time finding any decent background data to display. Google maps has the same Lo-Fi vector data that I have but they have a reasonable satellite image. I have considered (but not

Re: [pmapper-users] How measure in meters?

2008-11-18 Thread Gabe
The best way to do this is to reproject your data to UTM for measurement and this is pretty easy to do with mapscript however that would require a trip to the server. I have some js code that will reproject from WGS84 to UTM for this purpose. I got the code from here