We recently changed to using Eclipse as a web-editor. Eclipse is an open-source editor which has been designed to program java-applets, but in the meanwhile lots of other tools have been incorporated to support web-development in general. Now we can use 1 tool to edit web-templates, look in to jdbc-databases (oracle,mysql,postgres), do file-comparissons and cooperate using version management.
A special plug-in is available to work with cold fusion (cfeclipse) this plug-in has equal capacities as studio/homesite (like syntax highlighting,collapsing).
Another nice thing is that it runs on java and you don't need to install anything to get eclipse going, so if we visit a customer where we do not have lots of privileges, we copy eclipse to the harddrive and start working.
Some disadvantages are: the total code is at least some 200mb of files (huge download) and it runs on the java-platform which sometimes gives some performance issues on windows computers.
Friday, September 16, 2005
Mapserver virtualspatialdata
It's a long time ago since i posted something here... (got married in the meantime). These days we are working on an application in which users can insert point-data in an mysql-table. The data is displayed in the map afterwards.
The application is based on chameleon/mapserver. To present the data virtualspatialdata is used. The mapserver Wiki gives a clear description on how to implement is. However i'd like to point you on a single issue.
When i first tested my virtual ogr file using ogrinfo (on a windows 2000 sp3 server), I recieved messages that the file gcs.csv could not be opened, containing the projection information.
ERROR 4: Unable to open EPSG support file gcs.csv. Try setting the GDAL_DATA environment variable to point to the directory containing EPSG csv files.
ERROR 1: Failed to import LayerSRS `EPSG:28992'.
The reason was that i hadn't run setenv.bat.
Later when i tried to view the virtualdatalayer in mapserver i got the same messages. Apparently mapserver/apache/ogr also didn't know where to look for the projection-files. After introducing the parameter gdal_data in apache config the layer was displayed properly.
SetEnv gdal_data "/ms4w/tools/ogr-utils/data"
Good luck trying out yourself.
The application is based on chameleon/mapserver. To present the data virtualspatialdata is used. The mapserver Wiki gives a clear description on how to implement is. However i'd like to point you on a single issue.
When i first tested my virtual ogr file using ogrinfo (on a windows 2000 sp3 server), I recieved messages that the file gcs.csv could not be opened, containing the projection information.
ERROR 4: Unable to open EPSG support file gcs.csv. Try setting the GDAL_DATA environment variable to point to the directory containing EPSG csv files.
ERROR 1: Failed to import LayerSRS `EPSG:28992'.
The reason was that i hadn't run setenv.bat.
Later when i tried to view the virtualdatalayer in mapserver i got the same messages. Apparently mapserver/apache/ogr also didn't know where to look for the projection-files. After introducing the parameter gdal_data in apache config the layer was displayed properly.
SetEnv gdal_data "/ms4w/tools/ogr-utils/data"
Good luck trying out yourself.
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