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MapClient

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A Desktop-Like Browser Interface for MapServer

This is a slightly extended version of the presentation I held at the first Mapserver User's meeting at the university of Minnesota in St. Paul. Mapclient is a set of JavaScript functions that can be used in Mozilla 1.3, Netscape 7.1 and Internet Explorer 5.5 and up, to display maps generated by MapServer. It features:

- Movable and resizable windows
- Movable buttons, menus submenus and sliders
- Movable and closable HelpFrames
- ServerFrames to send requests to the Web server and process the results
- Job control, i.e. scheduling server requests one after another
- Multi-server WebMapping

I cannot present the interactive application itself to the world yet, as I did at St. Paul's, for this will require additional facilities on the Beowulf cluster at SARA computing center (www.sara.nl). This will come in the near future, but for the time being you'll have to do with screenshots.
The application,
(about 2000 lines of JavaScript code) has been completely developed with Open Source software. It is as good as finished; no new functionality will be added in the near future, and changes to the interface during the testing phase will be kept to a minimum. Documentation is available in the
and
Guides, and in the basic
from the User's Guide, which, by the way, already provide more functionality than is available in current commercial WebMapping technology.