[mapserver-users] Re: Problem with Class Expression

[Paolo Corti]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Marc-André D. <qc_mad at hotmail.com> wrote:
> After digging up a bit more, I've found that MapServer doesn't recognise the
> column "AREA" in my shapefile....but this column really exist. It does the
> samething with a few more column in that same shapefile.
>

It is very likely that you are looking at that column within some
desktop client and it is computed by that software.
Just to be sure, could you post the output of ogrinfo?

$ ogrinfo your_shape.shp -so your_shape

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