mapserver

Framework for Mapserver GIS APP

Hello guys! Good day! I'm trying to display on the web (read as create a GIS Web app) topo data layers stored in a POSTGIS/POSTGRES spatial database using mapserver. My problem is, although i happened to come across different framework that 'I' could use, my lack of experience on using mapserver in the first place makes me indecisive of...

how to proceed further this gis project?

For my company in house use i want to develop a gis project with simple goals. To display all places with name wherever my company presents,over the normal country map. Connect main office with branch offices graphically ( by line ). By clicking a place user will be directed to a new page containing information about the place. add new...

How to get "export to mapserver map file" option in qgis 1.3.0 in lucid linux ?

Hi , I am new to GIS and i want to export the qgis file to mapserver map file. But that option is not available in my Qgis 1.3.0 mimas. what to do to get it? pls help. ...

what is actually "EXTENT" in gis slang?

Hi , I am not clearly understanding the extent parameter in GIS applications. for ex, In mapserver map file we are using NAME "CGI-CONTEXT-DEMO" STATUS ON SIZE 400 300 **EXTENT -2200000 -712631 3072800 3840000** UNITS METERS IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255 IMAGETYPE png here extent means lower left x,y and upper right x,y. but long,lat values ...

how to export images from an openstreetmap server??

Good morning everyone, i'll try to explain the whole situation here: I have a website (django-python) that shows a map using Openlayers. The map has two layers: a background that shows the city names and streets and for that i use openstreetmaps; the second layer contains some greographic information , for that i use MapServer (more spec...

transparent labels on mapserver using a mapfile

Hi, i'm trying to add a watermark layer in my mapfile with a DEFAULT layer: LAYER OPACITY 20 NAME "copyright" METADATA "wms_title" "copyright" END STATUS DEFAULT TYPE ANNOTATION TRANSFORM ll FEATURE POINTS 220 -220 END TEXT "Sample Image" END CLASS LABEL ...

[webGis] Dynamic MapServer on OpenLayers

Hi all, I'm struggling with a peculiar set up: we have a WMS layer in OpenLayers (within a GeoExt web interface) invoking a MapServer string (e.g. http://mydomain/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=someMapFile.map&etcetc). Now we need to split the dataset into several layers. We tried by instanciating n separate WMS layers and it's way too...

Getting an errno 2 when running a PHP script

Hi overflowers!! Hope you help me... I've been at this for the past 2 days and have to admit that I'm stumped. The OS I'm on is Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic. I successfully installed and tested Mapserver. For my class project, I have a php script that I am using to create a layer see below.... The error I get when run the script on a cmd line...

Mapserver ignores my template-file for GetFeatureInfo-requests

I want my mapfile to support the GetFeatureInfo-request for some layers. I added the following line to the layer: TEMPLATE "change-template.txt" And the fileitself looks like follows (only for testing-purposes until now): # MapServer Template [version] test123 If I make my GetFeatureInfo-request, I get the following output: GetF...