[GRASSLIST:1140] Re: Grass and mapserver question

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 10:09:42AM -0400, Ling-Yen Liao wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use GRASS 5.0.2 and Mapserver 3.6.6, and I am trying to make a connection between GRASS and Mapserver. I downloaded the DEMO 1 from
> http://grass.itc.it/start.html
> and everything was fine except the soils map.
[...]
> and it was ok, but after I changed 2 places:
>   shapepath "/data/grassdata/spearfish" 
>   data "PERMANENT/cellhs/soils"
> and ran mapserv, it showed
> msDrawRaster():Image handliing error. Unrecognized or unsupported image format.
> 
> Is it because the data in my grass database is not 8 bit format? if so,
> how could I fix this? Thank you...

See at bottom of
http://grass.itc.it/start.html
the new Troubleshooting entry (use r.rescale).

Cheers

 Markus Neteler