<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><br></div><div>Hi Caitlin<br></div><div><br></div>There was a Mapserver cartography presentation at FOSS4G in Portland that mentioned a GUI tool for Windows called Mapserver MapManager from GISInternals.The presenter said nice things about it. I have not tried it myself but it looks very comprehensive : <a href="http://www.gisinternals.com/MapManager/">http://www.gisinternals.com/MapManager/</a><br><br></div>As an aside, the same FOSS4G presentation is worth watching if you want to see an advanced user talk about putting some nice cartography together in Mapserver: <a href="https://vimeo.com/107512542">https://vimeo.com/107512542</a><br><br></div><div>Also I second Eli's recommendation to navigate the MapServer Mapfile documentation itself - it's really great.<br><a href="http://mapserver.org/mapfile/index.html">http://mapserver.org/mapfile/index.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>You can get plugins for Editors like NotePad++ that do Syntax highlighting for Mapfiles. Here's one repo (there are many):<br><a href="https://github.com/AstunTechnology/MapserverSyntaxHighlighting">https://github.com/AstunTechnology/MapserverSyntaxHighlighting</a> <br></div><div><br></div>Tanya<br><div><br><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bob.basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us" target="_blank">bob.basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Typically, the “.map” files are edited manually with your favorite text editor.
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I am a first time user to GeoMoose and kind of have an idea on how it works. However, the one thing that is stumping me is the .map which I assume is a text based map. How do I go about creating those? Is it in ArcMap or do I have to use some other program?
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