[Geomoose-users] GeoMoose for total neophytes

[TC Haddad]

Another thing to get familiar with is the contents of the Map file.

I'ts not as simple as substituting the path to a shapefile, you must also
adjust the extents in your map file to match your project area extent, and
the extents must be in your desired projected coordinates.

Projections must also be specified in the map file for any WMS resources
you want to connect with.

Mapserver map file documentation is pretty good:
http://www.mapserver.org/mapfile/

Tanya

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) <
bob.basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote:

 I have yet to try and set up 2.6 from start to finish, but some thing I
> would look for are:****
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> There are multiple locations for projection and extents settings to be set.
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> Have you tested MapServer directly for grabbing images from?  Is it
> working to grab data directly, will mode=legend work for MapServer calls
> and actually make a legend?****
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> Is any  of this out in the wild to test against?****
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> Have you tried setting your extents wildly out of scope to get anything to
> print anywhere?  (I.E. -1000000, -1000000, 1000000, 10000000)****
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> Bobb****
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> *From:* Jason Menard [mailto:menard.jason at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 11, 2012 2:47 PM
> *To:* Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
> *Cc:* geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Geomoose-users] GeoMoose for total neophytes****
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> Hi Bob,****
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> Nope, we're doing this in NY State Plane East on NAD83-- EPSG2905.  I have
> the projection files in the appropriate bins-- Firebug isn't throwing any
> exceptions looking for projections.****
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> Would it be better to try to testbed things for learning purposes in
> Minnesota rather than try to change every extent and projection for upstate
> New York?  I have a ton of my own MN data to test with, but when you're
> just editing the mapbook, things seem pretty straightforward to alter, yet
> on anything but the demo, GM is quite borked.  I keep thinking I'm missing
> something fundamentally obvious that I'm just too ignorant to know is
> obvious...****
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> Thanks!****
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> Best,****
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> Jason****
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> ----
> Jason Menard
> menard.jason at gmail.com
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> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) <
> bob.basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote:****
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> First of all, are you using the same projection as the demo for your own
> data?****
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> Bobb****
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> *From:* geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Jason Menard
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 11, 2012 2:20 PM
> *To:* geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* [Geomoose-users] GeoMoose for total neophytes****
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> Hi all,****
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> I've got GeoMoose installed on a Windows Server 2008 testbed and the demo
> working.  But every attempt at actually getting my own data in or changing
> the projection results in a pink screen.  I think I've got the mapbook.xml
> figured out (though sometimes how GeoMoose handles extent units confuses
> me) and I'm starting to get a grasp of how things are working, but I just
> can't get it to work!  I think if I get some success on any one issue, the
> rest of the problems will solve themselves, but I'm having trouble getting
> to that first success.  I know my way around GIS, but this is my first
> attempt at web-delivered data.****
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> Help!****
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> Best,****
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> Jason
> ----
> Jason Menard
> menard.jason at gmail.com****
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