[mapserver-users] coordinates

[Nikki Chumakov]

Hi,

I'm completly new to GIS and cartography, so, please, excuse if my 
question is too stupid.
I'm particulary messy with datums and projections topics and with data 
formats.

Anyway, I have a file with vector geographics data, and wish to convert 
it into shapefiles and browse it
with mapserv.

The data I have use coordinates like
55.0195312500,34.9804687500;
55.0195312500,39.9902343750;
59.9853515625,39.9902343750;
59.9853515625,34.9804687500 (it is in Moscow, Russia) and somehow I know 
that the WGS84
projection was envolved.

So, I created shapefiles with simple perl script (shapelib/Shape.pm). I 
did not use any conversions
and insert these coordinates AS IS into shapefile.

Now, mapserv shows the map but all objects are too small, ~10000 times 
smaller than actual objects
compared with scalebar.

I tried use different PROJECTION sections with no luck. I'm not sure if 
I should right PROJECTION sections or I should transform coordinates 
before insert it into shapefile. Actially I didn't see any visual 
diffirences
with different PROJECTION sections at all.

I'm using mapserv 3.5, proj 4.4.5

mapserv -v
MapServer version 3.5 OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP SUPPORTS=PROJ 
SUPPORTS=TTF SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT INPUT=TIFF 
INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=JPEG INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE

Could you help please?