New css stuff

i'm frequently amazed what those dhtml-boys can do with just a little html, javascript and css. check these out:

• clagnut.com (firefox only) these guys present draggable, resizable stickies (found at www.stylegala.com).
• alistapart.com shows a pure css menu, but it looks very non-css.
• Walter zorn created some scripts to enable dynamic drawing in your html-website. Draw a polygon and submit, write the form-fields to your oracle spatial db and a simple red-lining module was born.

By the way, do you need a small, free, windows photo editor and don't want to install the gimp? Try http://photofiltre.free.fr

label angle in mapserver

The department of natural resources Minnesota set up a demo-site with some nice features of mapserver. All nicely documented with examples and downloads. Go have a look. Things like label angels dynamix label sizing, automatic rotation for lines(streets), live mapping and dynamic queries. Visit http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/mapserver_demos/tests40/index.html

FGS Linux Installer

on www.maptools.org a new package (FGS) is available. This package can install all required components to compile mapserver at once on Linux. The following distibutions are supported:

• Redhat 8, 9
• Fedora Core 1, 2, 3
• RedHat Enterprise 3
• Debian
• Gentoo
• Suse 8

The package contains things like apache, php, mapserver, gd, gdal, proj, tiff, jpg and freetype

Extra modules are available like mysql,postgis,chameleon. I hope this package solves some installation problems for some of you. Somebody any idea why suse 9 is not supported?

alternatives for sqlplus/enterprice manager console

Several alternatives exsist for oracle's sqlplus/enterprice manager console. Some of them free (gpl), some of them commercial.

• www.sqltools.net brings a free lightweight oracle client, but unfortunately without support for spatial fields.
• www.sqlpal.com has a free java client that can connect through jdbc, for that reason it doesn't need oracle client to be installed at the local machine. sqlpal can't show spatial fields either.
• www.toadsoft.com sells a commercial client which can show spatial fields, and a free client which can not (free license has to be updated every 3 months).
• www.dbtools.com sells a commercial client that can connect to lots of databases, including oracle (display of spatial fields unknown). Their free license can connect to mysql, postgres, interbase and sqllite. Very usefull to convert msAccess to MySql

Mapserver hosting

It's hard to find an affordable mapserver host. These are the ones i found. From each site i chose the cheapest option.

mapserver hosting	price ?/month	disk	postgis	mysql	php
http://htmlx.com	15	500	y	y	y
http://www.zopecms.de/
http://www.dvm.at/mapserver.html	36	1000	y	y
www.gishosting.net
www.nieuwland.nl	25	100	y	y	y
http://www.eikonix.net	89	1000		y
http://www.sibern.com.au	110		y	y	y
http://www.gdv-gis.de/hosting/	30	500	n	n	n
http://mapserver.eligeos.org/
http://textdrive.com/	12	300		y	y
http://www.gislogic.com/hosting.cfm			y	y	y
http://www.pghoster.com			y	y	y

did i forgot your company, send me an email.