[mapserver-users] Meeting

[Tom Poindexter]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 05:08:03PM -0600, Mike Neuman wrote:
>   I'm new to the Mapserver community. I would agree with this statement from
> a *technical* point of view, but strongly disagree from an approchability
> point of view. There are virtually NO examples of how to create maps, do
> things in mapscript, etc. It took at least 20 hours of me fighting with
> Mapscript and a .map file before I could get a relatively simple map to
> display. Then another 8 hours to get the projection right. If I didn't hate
> my GIS program so much, I probably would have given it up after the first
> few hours.

You should give my MapServer Workbench a try.  It includes a 'wizard' to 
help build .map files, plus visual .map file editor and viewer.  It's 
currently based on MapServer 3.4.

It's listed in the contribute software page, and avaiable at:
http://msworkbench.sourceforge.net 

-- 
Tom Poindexter
tpoindex at nyx.net
http://www.nyx.net/~tpoindex/