Help with rasters

[Jeff Dege]

Yep. That did it. I know have an image of the full extent of the map.

Only problem is that it took ten minutes to generate.

Next?  Read up on optimization and tuning of raster maps.

Thanks for the help.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) [mailto:bartvde at osgis.nl] 
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 11:49 AM
> To: Jeff Dege
> Cc: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Help with rasters
> 
> First of all, change:
> 
> DATA "rasterindex"
> 
> into:
> 
> TILEINDEX "rasterindex"
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart
> 
> Jeff Dege schreef:
> > A customer has sent us a bunch of mapdata, to see if we can make any
> > sense from it.  I've been messing around with mapserver for a while,
> > now, and I've figured out how to work some of its 
> capabilities, but this
> > is my first attempt to handle rasters.
> >
> > The data set has four sets of shape files, three of which are
> > point/line/polygon data and the fourth which seems to be a 
> tileindex for
> > the thousands of jpg and jgw files.
> >
> > I'm starting simple - writing a map file and trying to get 
> a map image
> > using shp2img.  I have no problem doing this with the three
> > point/line/polygon layers.  But I've not been able to do 
> this with the
> > raster data.
> >
> > I can run gdalinfo on the jpg files:
> >
> >   Driver: JPEG/JPEG JFIF
> >   Size is 1610, 1609
> >   Coordinate System is `'
> >   Origin = (-93.112361,44.933805)
> >   Pixel Size = (0.00001279,-0.00000900)
> >   Corner Coordinates:
> >   Upper Left  ( -93.1123608,  44.9338046)
> >   Lower Left  ( -93.1123608,  44.9193245)
> >   Upper Right ( -93.0917678,  44.9338046)
> >   Lower Right ( -93.0917678,  44.9193245)
> >   Center      ( -93.1020643,  44.9265646)
> >   Band 1 Block=1610x1 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Red
> >   Band 2 Block=1610x1 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Green
> >   Band 3 Block=1610x1 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Blue
> >
> > I can run gdaltindex to create my own tileindex shape file:
> >
> >   gdaltindex  \\server\share\test\data\rasterindex
> > \\server\share\test\data\data\*.jpg
> >
> > And I can run ogrinfo on the generated shapefile:
> >
> >   INFO: Open of `\\server\share\app\data'
> >   using driver `ESRI Shapefile' successful.
> >
> >   Layer name: rasterindex
> >   Geometry: Polygon
> >   Feature Count: 683
> >   Extent: (-93.338884, 44.455961) - (-92.721094, 44.933805)
> >   Layer SRS WKT:
> >   (unknown)
> >   location: String (255.0)
> >
> > But when I run shp2img, I get nada.  With DEBUG=ON:
> >
> >   Unable to open file rasterindex for layer A ... ignoring 
> this missing
> > data.
> >   msDrawMap(): Layer 0 (A), 0.000s
> >   msDrawMap(): Drawing Label Cache, 0.000s
> >   msDrawMap() total time: 0.000s
> >
> > The rastedindex shape files (.dbf, .shp, and .shf) files 
> are in the same
> > directories as the other point/line/polygon shape files 
> that I've been
> > able to successfully draw layers with using this mapfile.  
> Ogrinfo has
> > no trouble accessing the file.
> >
> > The underlying .jpg files are in the same directory, and 
> gdalinfo and
> > gdaltindex had no trouble opening them.
> >
> > The layer in the mapfile itself is pretty simple:
> >
> >   LAYER
> >     NAME "A"
> >     TYPE RASTER
> >     STATUS ON
> >     DATA "rasterindex"
> >   END
> >
> > Any hints as to what I'm doing wrong?
> >
> >
> >   
> 
> 
> -- 
> Bart van den Eijnden
> OSGIS, Open Source GIS
> bartvde at osgis.nl
> http://www.osgis.nl
> 
>