[mapserver-users] Mapfile Generators

[pcreso at pcreso.com]

Hi Paul,

QGIS has such a tool, I'm not sure about Arc.

You should be able to handcraft a generic mapfile as a template you can re-use as required. I had a use case some time ago for this sort of thing & used a Linux shell script to make the text substitutions in such a template from reading a spreadsheet containing the mapfile parameters required for each individual shapefile.

These days I tend to manage data in Postgis, & use a filter or mapserver's variable substitution to manage such situations.

Using a single mapfile with cgi wrappers to re-use it in this way for different datasets works better for me than maintaining lots of separate mapfiles.

In a couple of situations where this is not flexible enough, having a cgi actually contain the mapfile text, so it writes the customised mapfile, then invokes it, also works for me.

Cheers,
   
   Brent Wood


--- On Sat, 2/4/12, Paul Maddock <Paul.Maddock at ijus.net> wrote:

From: Paul Maddock <Paul.Maddock at ijus.net>
Subject: [mapserver-users] Mapfile Generators
To: "mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org" <mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org>
Date: Saturday, February 4, 2012, 2:49 AM

Hi all,  Are there any extensions of ArcView 10 which I can export .shp files into mapfiles or possibly any other open source mapfile generators?  It seems time consuming to manually create these map files if I have a large collection of shapefiles.   Many thanks,Paul
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