Define Map Extent for small area

Sat May 5 12:30:03 EDT 2007

Amal,

 Can you confirm that your shapefile is in geographic (lat/long) coordinates?

 If not you'll have to set up a PROJECTION object for the map and layer.

- matt

On 5/4/07, AMAL OMAR <amal_osaad2003 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> I have been create map file for small area about 1km2,but the problem , it
> can not get the vector map for my area, the map output come white no data
> present.
>
> Degree Minutes Seconds (DMS) for shape file is
>                                    (13° 11'4.0",
> 13°11'13.2") west
>                                    (32° 52'5.9", 32°
> 52'26.2") North
>
> I have changed it to decimal Degree (DD):
>                 Xmin=13.184444
>                 Ymin=32.86306
>                 Xmax=13.187000
>                 Ymax=32.873944
>
> The map file code:
> # This is our first mapfile
> NAME "first-cis"
> UNITS  dd
> SIZE 400 300
> IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
> IMAGETYPE PNG
> SHAPEPATH "/ms4w/home/mapdata/cis/"
> EXTENT 13.184444 32.86306 13.187000 32.873944
>
> #####################################################
>  WEB
>     TEMPLATE '/ms4w/var/www/htdocs/cis/first-cis.html'
>     IMAGEPATH '/ms4w/var/www/htdocs/tmp/'
>     IMAGEURL '/tmp/'
>  END
> ######################################################
>  LAYER
>     NAME "Azwia Hospital"
>     STATUS default
>     TYPE polygon
>     DATA "hospital"
>     CLASS
>      STYLE
>        COLOR 255 0 0
>      END
>     END
>  END
> END
> HTML File:
>
> <html>
> <head> <title>MapServer First cadastral Map</title></head>
> <body>
>    <form method=POST action="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe" id=form1 name=form1>
>       <input type="submit" value="Click Me" id=submit1 name=submit1>
>       <input type="hidden" name="map"
> value="/ms4w/home/mapdata/cis/first-cis.map">
>       <input type="hidden" name="map_web_imagepath"
>              value="/ms4w/var/www/htdocs/tmp/">
>    </form>
>    <IMG SRC="[img]" width=400 height=300 border=0>
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
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