tutorial

[Burkhard Sell]

-----Original Message-----
From: rfriedman at saucontech.com [mailto:rfriedman at saucontech.com]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 3:22 PM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: tutorial




I am new to the field of map rendering and would like to know how I can
learn
more about the 'big picture.' For instance, what is a shapefile and how
do I
create one? What are mapfiles, views, templates, etc.?  I know there is
a
tutorial off the mapserver homepage, but it is very bare-bones and seems
to
assume a degree of familiarity with basic map generation concepts that I
don't
have yet.

Any ideas on where I can go to learn about this topic?