Viewer Application for Mapserver-generated Flash Map Layers

Glenn Brauen
Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre
Carleton University

July 16, 2004

This package contains a Flash application for viewing
mapserver-generated Flash map layers.  It was developed as part of my
attempt to understand the mapserver implementation of Flash (SWF)
output, especially vector output layers with attributes associated
with the features contained in some of the layers.  

The package includes a small data set (Shapefiles) that I used when
developing the prototype.  There are many issues I have ignored that
would need to be addressed in the development of a robust viewer
application (e.g., features such zoom and pan, general cartographic
display practices such as legends and scale bars).  Instead, I chose
to keep this very simple to demonstrate how to load a few map layers
and access the ActionScript-encoded attributes.

Getting Started:

Load the file fmv.html into your browser.  It contains instructions on
using this demo and references to information describing the mapserver
implementation of SWF map layers.

Comments and questions are welcome.

Glenn Brauen
gbrauen@connect.carleton.ca