[beginner] Why does it look like a map of Arctic Snowfields?

[Grzegorz Myrda]

Additionaly (to Steven's advices), there must be properly set priviliges to
shapefile directory and all shapefiles. They must be "chmod-ed" to others.

Grzegorz

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> [mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu]W imieniu Jason Domina
> Wysłano: 15 września 1999 20:40
> Do: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Temat: [beginner] Why does it look like a map of Arctic Snowfields?
>
>
> howdy,
>
> Normally I am loathe to issue a cry for help on matters that are
> trivial to
> those who have RTFM :)  However, time has squeezed me into a corner that I
> cannot wriggle out of.  I am not an GIS analyst, so much of this
> is still very
> confusing.  I am a web developer working for a local county government in
> Billings, MT USA.  We've been using ESRI's MapObjects and
> Internet Map Server
> to develop a web based interface to the county's GIS information
> on Windows
> NT(IIS4).  The tirade of expletives this software combination has
> caused me to
> expell isn't worth repeating, but needless to say, these products have
> occasioned me to explore alternatives.  A quick search on
> Freshmeat.net brought
> me to MapServer and having viewed the speed and stability of the
> demo site, I
> quickly became enamored.
>
> I can get the demo setup and running correctly on my test machine which is
> currently running Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 and Apache 1.3.9.
> However, when I try
> to use some of our shapefiles I get nothing but an Arctic
> Snowfield.  My map is
> just a big, ol' white square.  I hope it is not too crass, but
> below you will
> find a copy of my ystone.map file.  What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thank you,
> Jason Domina
> Yellowstone County IS Internet Specialist
>
>
>
> -------------begin ystone.map----------------------------
>
> #
> # Start of map file
> #
> NAME ystone
> STATUS ON
> SIZE 600 600
> SHADESET symbols/shade.sym
> MARKERSET symbols/marker.sym
> LINESET symbols/line.sym
> EXTENT 2106685.23181818 443164.375 2492152.01818182 823786.875
> UNITS FEET
> SHAPEPATH /home/httpd/html/mapdev/data
> IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
>
> LABELOVERLAP FALSE
>
> #
> # Start of web interface definition
> #
> WEB
>   HEADER demo_header.html
>   TEMPLATE demo.html
>   MINSCALE 1000
>   MAXSCALE 1550000
> END
>
> #
> # Start of reference map
> #
> REFERENCE
>   IMAGE graphics/reference_base.gif
>   EXTENT 2106685.23181818 443164.375 2492152.01818182 823786.875
>   STATUS ON
>   COLOR -1 -1 -1
>   OUTLINECOLOR 255 0 0
> END
>
> #
> # Start of legend
> #
> LEGEND
>   KEYSIZE 18 12
>   LABEL
>     TYPE BITMAP
>     SIZE MEDIUM
>     COLOR 0 0 89
>   END
>   STATUS ON
> END
>
> #
> # Start of scalebar
> #
> SCALEBAR
>   IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
>   LABEL
>     COLOR 0 0 0
>     SIZE SMALL
>   END
>   SIZE 350 5
>   COLOR 255 255 255
>   BACKGROUNDCOLOR 0 0 0
>   OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
>   UNITS MILES
>   INTERVALS 5
>   STATUS ON
> END
>
> #
> # Start of layer definitions
> #
>
> LAYER
>   NAME Sections
>   TYPE POLYGON
>   STATUS ON
>   DATA  /home/httpd/html/mapdev/data/sections
>   CLASS
>     SYMBOL 0
>     OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
>     COLOR 248 248 95
>   END
> END # Layer
>
> LAYER
>   NAME Townships
>   TYPE POLYGON
>   STATUS ON
>   DATA  /home/httpd/html/mapdev/data/towna
>   CLASS
>     SYMBOL 0
>     OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 102
>     COLOR 255 255 240
>   END
> END # Layer
>
> LAYER
>   NAME primary_roads
>   TYPE LINE
>   STATUS ON
>   DATA /home/httpd/html/mapdev/data/Y_ROADS
>   SYMBOLSCALE 24000
>
>   CLASS
>     NAME "Roads"
>     COLOR 128 128 128
>     SYMBOL 13
>     SIZE 3
>     MAXSIZE 5
>   END
> END # Layer
>
> END # Map File
>