<html><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1250"><META name="Author" content="Novell GroupWise WebAccess"></head><body style='font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; '>I am writing an article to discuss the use of geospatial technologies in
education. I have used ArcIMS extensively and want to discuss MapServer as
well. However, my expertise in programming and setting up server applications
is pretty limited. Actually FORTRAN 97 in 1998!. So I find myself in over my
head trying to compare the functionality and ease of use of ArcIMS and
MapServer. Additionally I am trying to find some examples of MapServer to
explore. <br>
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I was hoping you could direct me to a few sites running MapServer and perhaps
put me in touch with someone I could talk with about MapServer.<br>
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Respectfully<br>
Lynn Songer
<br><div style="clear: both;"><br></div><br><br>>>> "Steve Lime" <Steve.Lime@dnr.state.mn.us> 09/01/09 8:42 AM >>><br><br>Can you get the scale value MapServer is using on a map where you think there should be<br>annotation for this layer but there is not? Easiest way to do that is with a simple browse<br>template like so:<br><br> <!-- MapServer Template --><br> <img src="[img]"><br><br> Map extent: [mapext]<br><br> Scale: [scale]<br><br>Note that you'll have to set IMAGEPATH and IMAGEURL in the WEB section of your mapfile. Then <br>you can call the CGI like so:<br><br> http://.../cgi-bin/mapserv?map=yourmap&mapext=extent where things go away&mode=browse<br><br>If all goes well you should see the generated image and the computed extent and scale. I'd be<br>curious to see those numbers on a problematic map for 5.2 and 5.4.<br><br>Steve<br><br>>>> On 9/1/2009 at 12:42 AM, in message<br><49dc012b0908312242h79cac72an73bbd1944dc8d42@mail.gmail.com>, Raivo Alla<br><snaperski@gmail.com> wrote:<br>> Thanks!<br>> <br>> You're right, I shortened the layer definition here confusingly, whole<br>> layer definition was like that:<br>> <br>> LAYER<br>> NAME alevikAnno_1<br>> GROUP HYBRID<br>> METADATA<br>> "wms_title" "alevikAnno"<br>> "wms_srs" "EPSG:3301"<br>> "wms_extent" "355000 6360000 754000 6660000"<br>> END<br>> STATUS default<br>> TYPE annotation<br>> DATA "kohanimed/alevikud_1"<br>> #sama andmestik, mis newages.<br>> #Uuendamine vastavalt vajadusele.<br>> #OPACITY 100<br>> LABELITEM "TEXTSTRING" <br>> CLASS<br>> MAXSCALE 1333333 #1000000<br>> MINSCALE 400000 #300000<br>> STYLE<br>> SYMBOL "punsoon3" <br>> SIZE 15 <br>> END<br>> LABEL<br>> TYPE truetype<br>> ANTIALIAS true<br>> FONT "arial"<br>> COLOR 255 255 255<br>> SIZE 9<br>> priority 6<br>> encoding utf-8<br>> force false<br>> ANGLE auto<br>> OUTLINECOLOR 25 25 25<br>> POSITION cr<br>> BUFFER 1<br>> END<br>> END<br>> CLASS<br>> MAXSCALE 400000 #300000<br>> MINSCALE 200000 #150000<br>> STYLE<br>> SYMBOL "punsoon4" <br>> SIZE 15 <br>> END<br>> LABEL<br>> TYPE truetype<br>> ANTIALIAS true<br>> FONT "arialb"<br>> COLOR 255 255 255<br>> SIZE 9<br>> force false<br>> ANGLE auto<br>> priority 6<br>> OUTLINECOLOR 25 25 25<br>> POSITION cr<br>> BUFFER 1<br>> END<br>> END<br>> CLASS<br>> MAXSCALE 200000 #150000<br>> MINSCALE 66666 #50000<br>> LABEL<br>> TYPE truetype<br>> ANTIALIAS true<br>> FONT "arialb"<br>> COLOR 255 255 255<br>> SIZE 10<br>> #force true<br>> priority 8<br>> ANGLE auto<br>> OUTLINECOLOR 25 25 25<br>> POSITION cc<br>> BUFFER 3<br>> END<br>> END<br>> CLASS<br>> MAXSCALE 66666 #50000<br>> MINSCALE 20000 #15000<br>> LABEL<br>> TYPE truetype<br>> ANTIALIAS true<br>> FONT "arialb"<br>> COLOR 255 255 255<br>> SIZE 11<br>> #force true<br>> priority 8<br>> ANGLE auto<br>> OUTLINECOLOR 25 25 25<br>> POSITION cc<br>> BUFFER 3<br>> END<br>> END<br>> CLASS<br>> MAXSCALE 20000 #15000<br>> LABEL<br>> TYPE truetype<br>> ANTIALIAS true<br>> FONT "arialb"<br>> COLOR 255 255 255<br>> SIZE 12<br>> #force true<br>> priority 8<br>> ANGLE auto<br>> OUTLINECOLOR 25 25 25<br>> POSITION cc<br>> BUFFER 3<br>> END<br>> END<br>> END<br>> <br>> But problem still remains, even if I changed layer definition to<br>> one-class only and with the scales defined in LAYER, not CLASS<br>> section.<br>> <br>> <br>> Raivo<br>> <br>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Steve Lime<Steve.Lime@dnr.state.mn.us> wrote:<br>>> If you get rid of the class min/max scales do the problems go away? What if <br>> you put those constraints<br>>> at the layer level (with only one class that should work). Also, the layer <br>> defn is confusing since it doesn't<br>>> hint at a marker yet the images missing labels definitely do have a marker <br>> accompanying the text.<br>>><br>>> Steve<br>>><br>>>>>> On 8/31/2009 at 5:23 AM, in message<br>>> <49dc012b0908310323j7868aed2gea5cf8528a23e0f@mail.gmail.com>, Raivo Alla<br>>> <snaperski@gmail.com> wrote:<br>>>> This is a bit old problem (still got that bug), but I found that I<br>>>> typed the second link not right, the right link to<br>>>> the problematic output is that:<br>>>> http://picasaweb.google.com/snaperski/Ort#5365984697960162578 <br>>>> I assume this is some 5.4 version bug?<br>>>><br>>>> Sincerely,<br>>>> Raivo<br>>>><br>>>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Raivo Alla<snaperski@gmail.com> wrote:<br>>>>> Hey,<br>>>>><br>>>>> I got some weird behavior while trying to display labels with mapserver 5.4.<br>>>>> With mapserver 5.0.3 these labels show up nicely:<br>>>>> http://picasaweb.google.com/snaperski/Ort#5365984694609689634 <br>>>>> But with mapserver 5.4, these layers are shown at scale about<br>>>>> 350000-200000, but they will disappear at higher scales, so nothing<br>>>>> can be seen:<br>>>>> http://picasaweb.google.com/snaperski/Ort#5365984694609689634 <br>>>>> This could'nt be collision conflict either as they have enough space to fit<br>>>> in.<br>>>>> Is something changed in the way mapserver treats annotations elements?<br>>>>><br>>>>> Data source is a polygon shapefile: I hope that (polygon type) is not<br>>>>> the problem?<br>>>>> The layer itself in the mapfile:<br>>>>><br>>>>> LAYER<br>>>>> NAME alevikAnno_1<br>>>>> GROUP HYBRID<br>>>>> METADATA<br>>>>> "wms_title" "alevikAnno"<br>>>>> "wms_srs" "EPSG:3301"<br>>>>> "wms_extent" "355000 6360000 754000 6660000"<br>>>>> END<br>>>>> STATUS default<br>>>>> TYPE annotation<br>>>>> DATA "kohanimed/alevikud_1"<br>>>>> LABELITEM "TEXTSTRING"<br>>>>> CLASS<br>>>>> MAXSCALE 1333333<br>>>>> MINSCALE 200000<br>>>>> LABEL<br>>>>> TYPE truetype<br>>>>> ANTIALIAS true<br>>>>> FONT "arial"<br>>>>> COLOR 255 255 255<br>>>>> SIZE 9<br>>>>> priority 6<br>>>>> force false<br>>>>> ANGLE auto<br>>>>> OUTLINECOLOR 25 25 25<br>>>>> POSITION cr<br>>>>> BUFFER 1<br>>>>> END<br>>>>> END<br>>>>> END<br>>>>><br>>>>><br>>>>><br>>>>> Raivo Alla<br>>>>> Estonian Land Board<br>>>>><br>>>> _______________________________________________<br>>>> mapserver-users mailing list<br>>>> mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org <br>>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users <br>>><br>>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mapserver-users mailing list<br>> mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org <br>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users<br>_______________________________________________<br>mapserver-users mailing list<br>mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users<br><br>!SIG:4a9d40bd134011336520108!<br><br></body></html>