Hello all,
This is one of those fancy “how to do this” questions that I’m sure you all are so fond of. Anyway any insight on my question would be greatly appreciated.
Goal: To build an Internet Mapping Site (IMS) using Flash
Scenario: Using Manifold GIS for the backend. It is a full scale GIS software which easily outputs data (geometry and tabular) into xml. It has built in IMS capabilities, but the front end looks horrid and has only limited customization capabilities.
Would like to build an IMS using Flash as the front end, and Manifold as backend. How would I set up something where the GUI and display were Flash, the user interacts with the Flash (Pan, Zoom, Selection, Query(SQL)), have Flash fetch that from Manifold via xml, and display the new extent, query results, etc.?
So there would need to be geometry data retrieval and display as well as tabular. For example the user should be able to use a “Zoom by Extent” feature where they draw a rectangle on the map, it returns the coordinates of the box to Manifold, Manifold returns it, etc. On the other hand they need to be able to query the datasets (simple sql queries).
I hope this makes some sense. I’m a noob in many aspects to backend so I’m just trying to get a handle on whether this is possible, and what backend needs to be implemented in order to make this happen? Would you know of a possilble better method? Silverlight, etc?
Thanks again for any insight you may have.
wheatleyweb
