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color=#0000ff>Hi,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff>I bought <U>Beginning MapServer - Open Source GIS Development</U>
(Bill Kropla, ISBN 1-59059-490-8). I liked its strucutre and
examples. It starts with a chapter on how to build it (on Linux systems),
gives a very simple mapfile example, and then does a very complex mapping
example, which it redoes it in the different mapscript languages (php, python,
and perl... includes the mapscript and web code it uses) -- the redundancy of
which is pretty helpful. It also addresses how to do map queries, which
looks good, but i haven't used yet, so I'm not so familiar, and different
utility programs for map data. It includes a mapfile reference in the
appendix.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff>In short, I like it, and refer to it when working on my web
mapping application.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=812530821-12022007><FONT face="Courier New"
color=#0000ff><U>Web Mapping Illustrated</U> (OReilly, I forget the author) is a
great book on maptools, and has a good deal on mapserver, but also covers other
open source mapping tools. If you are looking for something focused on
mapserver itself, however, I recommend the Kropla book.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff>hope this helps,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff>matt</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> UMN MapServer Users List
[mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Ian
Tidy<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 12, 2007 2:54 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Reference
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi All,</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am new to MapServer, but getting everything
implemented slowly. I am looking for a good reference book that can help
me and also our web developer. I have many year of GIS experience, while
our web developer has none. We are focusing mainly on OGC services
(WMS/WFS) and PHP/MapScript.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any information would be appreciated.</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers Ian</FONT> <BR><SPAN lang=en-nz><FONT
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