From rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu  Fri Feb  4 06:38:38 2000
From: rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu (Robert Chavez)
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 09:38:38 -0500 (EST)
Subject: mapscript and logical expressions
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002040916250.19202-100000@tantalos.perseus.tufts.edu>


Greetings,

I've just gotten around to trying the new logical expressions in classes
and I'm having trouble getting results.  Utimately I want to use logical
expresssions with ranges of numbers, but I tried these simple examples
with string, regex, and logical expressions just to test the various
expression options (using mapscript from the latest release 3.3.006):

<snip>
NAME Contours
  TYPE LINE
  STATUS OFF 		#mapscript handles status change 
  DATA contourlines1
  MAXSCALE 4000000
  CLASSITEM "Zv2"
  CLASS
    NAME "Contour lines"
    #EXPRESSION "914"  works, returns contours at this elevation
    #EXPRESSION /^914/ works, returns contours beginning with string 914
    #EXPRESSION ([Zv2] eq '914') doesn't work, returns nothing 
...
</snip>

I've tried a couple variations of the logical expression, but still no
luck.  Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Rob Chavez
Perseus Project
rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu 



From Banister at BANISTER.COM  Fri Feb  4 07:28:34 2000
From: Banister at BANISTER.COM (Trevor Banister)
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 08:28:34 -0700 
Subject: mapscript and logical expressions
Message-ID: <51BFCC79A3CCD311A2DD0800362C8E0316A4@banister4.conen.net>

I solved this by using some convoluted regular expressions.

i.e.
Results between 1000 and 1999
[1][0-9][0-9][0-9]

I posted some more detailed examples to the list a few months ago if you
want to dig through the archives. (I was working at Space Imaging at the
time so they are from tbanister at spaceimaging.com)

Trevor


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Chavez [mailto:rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 7:39 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: mapscript and logical expressions



Greetings,

I've just gotten around to trying the new logical expressions in classes
and I'm having trouble getting results.  Utimately I want to use logical
expresssions with ranges of numbers, but I tried these simple examples
with string, regex, and logical expressions just to test the various
expression options (using mapscript from the latest release 3.3.006):

<snip>
NAME Contours
  TYPE LINE
  STATUS OFF 		#mapscript handles status change 
  DATA contourlines1
  MAXSCALE 4000000
  CLASSITEM "Zv2"
  CLASS
    NAME "Contour lines"
    #EXPRESSION "914"  works, returns contours at this elevation
    #EXPRESSION /^914/ works, returns contours beginning with string 914
    #EXPRESSION ([Zv2] eq '914') doesn't work, returns nothing 
...
</snip>

I've tried a couple variations of the logical expression, but still no
luck.  Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Rob Chavez
Perseus Project
rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu 


From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Fri Feb  4 09:27:54 2000
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 11:27:54 -0600
Subject: mapscript and logical expressions
Message-ID: <s89ab7dc.036@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>

The replacements for logical expressions are case sensitive just like when using
mapserver templates. Most shapefiles use all caps for item names so try [ZV2] instead
of [Zv2]. Note, as of 3.3.006 you can't change class EXPRESSION or TEXT values from
within mapscript. Still figuring out the most robust way to distinguish between expression
types without firing up the lexer.

Also note that CLASSITEM is unused with logical expressions at present. Curiously, how
common are multiple item logical expressions in user's plans? By only allowing a single
item logical expressions would speed up a bit. Any thought?

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

Minnesota DNR
500 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155
651-297-2937

>>> Robert Chavez <rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu> 02/04/00 08:38AM >>>

Greetings,

I've just gotten around to trying the new logical expressions in classes
and I'm having trouble getting results.  Utimately I want to use logical
expresssions with ranges of numbers, but I tried these simple examples
with string, regex, and logical expressions just to test the various
expression options (using mapscript from the latest release 3.3.006):

<snip>
NAME Contours
  TYPE LINE
  STATUS OFF 		#mapscript handles status change 
  DATA contourlines1
  MAXSCALE 4000000
  CLASSITEM "Zv2"
  CLASS
    NAME "Contour lines"
    #EXPRESSION "914"  works, returns contours at this elevation
    #EXPRESSION /^914/ works, returns contours beginning with string 914
    #EXPRESSION ([Zv2] eq '914') doesn't work, returns nothing 
...
</snip>

I've tried a couple variations of the logical expression, but still no
luck.  Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Rob Chavez
Perseus Project
rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu 




From Banister at BANISTER.COM  Fri Feb  4 09:46:10 2000
From: Banister at BANISTER.COM (Trevor Banister)
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 10:46:10 -0700 
Subject: mapscript and logical expressions
Message-ID: <51BFCC79A3CCD311A2DD0800362C8E0316A6@banister4.conen.net>

Having multiple expression items would keep me from having to define
multiple layers as a work around, and there are some expressions that
wouldn't lend themselves to the multiple layer workaround (cites > Y people
and < X square miles)
I'd use it.

Trevor Banister
President
Banister Consulting and Online Services
Banister at Banister.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Lime [mailto:steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 10:28 AM
To: rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: Re: mapscript and logical expressions


The replacements for logical expressions are case sensitive just like when
using
mapserver templates. Most shapefiles use all caps for item names so try
[ZV2] instead
of [Zv2]. Note, as of 3.3.006 you can't change class EXPRESSION or TEXT
values from
within mapscript. Still figuring out the most robust way to distinguish
between expression
types without firing up the lexer.

Also note that CLASSITEM is unused with logical expressions at present.
Curiously, how
common are multiple item logical expressions in user's plans? By only
allowing a single
item logical expressions would speed up a bit. Any thought?

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

Minnesota DNR
500 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155
651-297-2937

>>> Robert Chavez <rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu> 02/04/00 08:38AM >>>

Greetings,

I've just gotten around to trying the new logical expressions in classes
and I'm having trouble getting results.  Utimately I want to use logical
expresssions with ranges of numbers, but I tried these simple examples
with string, regex, and logical expressions just to test the various
expression options (using mapscript from the latest release 3.3.006):

<snip>
NAME Contours
  TYPE LINE
  STATUS OFF 		#mapscript handles status change 
  DATA contourlines1
  MAXSCALE 4000000
  CLASSITEM "Zv2"
  CLASS
    NAME "Contour lines"
    #EXPRESSION "914"  works, returns contours at this elevation
    #EXPRESSION /^914/ works, returns contours beginning with string 914
    #EXPRESSION ([Zv2] eq '914') doesn't work, returns nothing 
...
</snip>

I've tried a couple variations of the logical expression, but still no
luck.  Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Rob Chavez
Perseus Project
rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu 



From rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu  Fri Feb  4 10:37:03 2000
From: rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu (Robert Chavez)
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 13:37:03 -0500
Subject: mapscript and logical expressions
References: <s89ab7dc.036@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>
Message-ID: <389B1C4F.567E53ED@perseus.tufts.edu>


That did it.  Thanks.  I'm going to fool around with between 5 and 8 logical expressions in a
particular layer, just to see what happens to performance.  I don't plan on using that many,
but I will have 2 or 3 per layer.

Rob Chavez
Perseus Project

Stephen Lime wrote:

> The replacements for logical expressions are case sensitive just like when using
> mapserver templates. Most shapefiles use all caps for item names so try [ZV2] instead
> of [Zv2]. Note, as of 3.3.006 you can't change class EXPRESSION or TEXT values from
> within mapscript. Still figuring out the most robust way to distinguish between expression
> types without firing up the lexer.
>
> Also note that CLASSITEM is unused with logical expressions at present. Curiously, how
> common are multiple item logical expressions in user's plans? By only allowing a single
> item logical expressions would speed up a bit. Any thought?
>
> Steve
>
> Stephen Lime
> Internet Applications Analyst
>
> Minnesota DNR
> 500 Lafayette Road
> St. Paul, MN 55155
> 651-297-2937
>
> >>> Robert Chavez <rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu> 02/04/00 08:38AM >>>
>
> Greetings,
>
> I've just gotten around to trying the new logical expressions in classes
> and I'm having trouble getting results.  Utimately I want to use logical
> expresssions with ranges of numbers, but I tried these simple examples
> with string, regex, and logical expressions just to test the various
> expression options (using mapscript from the latest release 3.3.006):
>
> <snip>
> NAME Contours
>   TYPE LINE
>   STATUS OFF            #mapscript handles status change
>   DATA contourlines1
>   MAXSCALE 4000000
>   CLASSITEM "Zv2"
>   CLASS
>     NAME "Contour lines"
>     #EXPRESSION "914"  works, returns contours at this elevation
>     #EXPRESSION /^914/ works, returns contours beginning with string 914
>     #EXPRESSION ([Zv2] eq '914') doesn't work, returns nothing
> ...
> </snip>
>
> I've tried a couple variations of the logical expression, but still no
> luck.  Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob Chavez
> Perseus Project
> rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu



From pcameron at Soils.Umn.EDU  Fri Feb  4 11:45:26 2000
From: pcameron at Soils.Umn.EDU (Paul Cameron)
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 13:45:26 -0600 (CST)
Subject: expression problem
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.91.1000204133618.5286A-100000@solum.soils.umn.edu>

Hello,

This should be a simple one, I'm finally upgrading one of my old mapserv 
apps to 3.3 and ran into this problem and was hoping to get some help.

Here's the layer in the map file:

LAYER
  NAME soils
  TYPE polygon
  STATUS on
  DATA soils
  CLASSITEM soil_type 
  CLASS
    EXPRESSION "BeD3|BdC2|BeE3|BdD2|BdB|BdC|BdD|BdF|BdE2"
    COLOR 125 175 75
  END
END

The expression line used to match all the polygons that hit one the ids 
listed above but its not working now. I can take it down to one id, 
EXPRESSION "BeD3", and it works fine. I'm sure I'm just missing some 
syntax somewhere but I can't find it anywhere in the documentation.

Thanks,
paul


From imap at chesapeake.net  Fri Feb  4 12:30:44 2000
From: imap at chesapeake.net (imap at chesapeake.net)
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 15:30:44 -0500
Subject: expression problem
References: <Pine.SGI.3.91.1000204133618.5286A-100000@solum.soils.umn.edu>
Message-ID: <389B36F4.22E0D582@chesapeake.net>

In MapServ3.3,
Regular Expression notation changed from double-quotes " " to 
slashes / / like the should be.

-Chris

Paul Cameron wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> This should be a simple one, I'm finally upgrading one of my old mapserv
> apps to 3.3 and ran into this problem and was hoping to get some help.
> 
> Here's the layer in the map file:
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME soils
>   TYPE polygon
>   STATUS on
>   DATA soils
>   CLASSITEM soil_type
>   CLASS
>     EXPRESSION "BeD3|BdC2|BeE3|BdD2|BdB|BdC|BdD|BdF|BdE2"
>     COLOR 125 175 75
>   END
> END
> 
> The expression line used to match all the polygons that hit one the ids
> listed above but its not working now. I can take it down to one id,
> EXPRESSION "BeD3", and it works fine. I'm sure I'm just missing some
> syntax somewhere but I can't find it anywhere in the documentation.
> 
> Thanks,
> paul

-- 

Chris Stuber (mapsurfer)
Silicon Mapping Solutions, Inc.
410-257-3187


From marin at here.is  Fri Feb  4 13:12:35 2000
From: marin at here.is (Ma)
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 21:12:35 +0000
Subject: How-to scalable symbols and text
Message-ID: <389B40C2.C3666A9@here.is>

How to scale symbols and text in 3.3.006. I did this in 3.3b but now
there is something different.
Here is part of the map file:

###############################
# --- roads -------

LAYER
  NAME roads
  TYPE LINE
  STATUS OFF
  DATA roads
  TOLERANCE 0
  SYMBOLSCALE 1000000

  CLASSITEM RoadType
  CLASS
    NAME "Primary road"
    EXPRESSION "Pr"
    COLOR 255 000 00
    SYMBOL 2   # this is the symbol from the distribution 3.3.006
    MAXSIZE 5
    MINSIZE 1
  END
END

###########

Any ideas?

--
Ma




From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Fri Feb  4 14:03:14 2000
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 16:03:14 -0600
Subject: How-to scalable symbols and text
Message-ID: <s89af862.090@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>

Hi: Works the same as before. Problem is the symbol you're tring to scale. Line symbols
of type STYLED are not scalable. You have to use type ELLIPSE symbols. Here's an
example of an filled ellipse symbol radius 1,1 (i.e. a circle). This is scalable and results in
circular of varying sizes. 

Symbol
  Type ELLIPSE
  Filled
  Points
    1 1
  END
END

With 3.3 you can define styles within any symbol type and therefore can get scaled, complex 
symbols as well. Your millage may vary. Type STYLED symbols use a single pixel width lines
only. Symbols are admittedly hard to work with, but you can do some wild things with them as
they're pretty flexible.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

Minnesota DNR
500 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155
651-297-2937

>>> Ma <marin at here.is> 02/04/00 03:12PM >>>
How to scale symbols and text in 3.3.006. I did this in 3.3b but now
there is something different.
Here is part of the map file:

###############################
# --- roads -------

LAYER
  NAME roads
  TYPE LINE
  STATUS OFF
  DATA roads
  TOLERANCE 0
  SYMBOLSCALE 1000000

  CLASSITEM RoadType
  CLASS
    NAME "Primary road"
    EXPRESSION "Pr"
    COLOR 255 000 00
    SYMBOL 2   # this is the symbol from the distribution 3.3.006
    MAXSIZE 5
    MINSIZE 1
  END
END

###########

Any ideas?

--
Ma





From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Fri Feb  4 15:14:41 2000
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 17:14:41 -0600
Subject: mapserver & gps use
Message-ID: <s89b090e.013@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>

How do you mean "add"? It's possible to allow users to use GPS coordinates to 
quide map creation (i.e. get me a map centered at ....). Users can also add markers
to maps (with the right syntax) for a given point.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

Minnesota DNR
500 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155
651-297-2937

>>> "David Armstrong" <david.armstrong at dtn.ntl.com> 02/04/00 05:10PM >>>
Forgive me if this has been covered , as a newcomer to mapserver i wish to
add gps positioning to mapserver
has anyone already done this , or is code already available .

regards
David Armstrong
UK
david.armstrong at dtn.ntl.com 




From marin at here.is  Fri Feb  4 16:30:06 2000
From: marin at here.is (Ma)
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 00:30:06 +0000
Subject: How-to scalable symbols and text
References: <s89af862.090@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>
Message-ID: <389B6F0B.17AFD869@here.is>

In the line.sym file which comes with 3.3.006 there is no ellipse type symbols.
Can you send me ellipse type line symbol(s) for 3.3.006?
I send here the line.sym I had before and and the line.sym from 3.3.006 now. Why doesn't work with
the first line.sym file with 3.3.006?

########
### the line.sym file from 3.3b
####

LineSet

# 1
Symbol
Type STYLED
Style
0 0
0 1
END # Style
END

# 2
Symbol
Type STYLED
Style
0 -1
0 0
0 1
END # Style
END

# 3
Symbol
Type STYLED
Style
3 0
END # Style
END

# 4
Symbol
Type STYLED
Style
6 0
END # Style
END

# 5
Symbol
Type STYLED
Style
3 0
3 1
END # Style
END

# 6
Symbol
Type STYLED
Style
6 0
6 1
END # Style
END

# 7
Symbol
Type STYLED
Style
3 -1
3 0
3 1
END # Style
END

# 8
Symbol
Type STYLED
Style
6 -1
6 0
6 1
END # Style
END

# 9
Symbol
Type STYLED
Style
0 -1
0 1
END # Style
END

# 10
Symbol
Type STYLED
Style
4 -1
4 1
END # Style
END

# 11
Symbol
Type STYLED
Style
0 -1
4 0
0 1
END # Style
END

# 12
Symbol
Type STYLED
Style
0 -1
8 0
0 1
END # Style
END

# 13
Symbol
Type ELLIPSE
Filled
transparent 0
POINTS
1 1
END
END

END # LineSet

###########################
## the line.sym from 3.3.006

LINESET

Symbol
Type STYLED
Style
 0 0 0
 1 0 0
END
END

Symbol
Type STYLED
Style
-1 0 0
 0 0 0
 1 0 0
END
END

Symbol
Type STYLED
Style
 0 3 3
END
END

Symbol
Type STYLED
Style
 0 6 6
END
END

Symbol
Type STYLED
Style
 0 3 3
 1 3 3
END
END

Symbol
Type STYLED
Style
 0 6 6
 1 6 6
END
END

Symbol
Type STYLED
Style
-1 3 3
 0 3 3
 1 3 3
END
END

Symbol
Type STYLED
Style
-1 6 6
 0 6 6
 1 6 6
END
END

Symbol
Type STYLED
Style
-1 0 0
 1 0 0
END
END

Symbol
Type STYLED
Style
-1 6 6
 1 6 6
END
END

Symbol
Type STYLED
Style
 -1 0 0
  0 6 6
  1 0 0
END
END

Symbol
Type Styled
Style
  -1 0 0
  0 12 12
  1 0 0
END
END

Symbol
Type STYLED
Style
  -1 1 7
  0 0 0
  1 1 7
END
END

Symbol
Type STYLED
Style
  -1 1 5
  0 1 5
  0 1 2
  1 1 5
END
END



END # LineSet



--
Ma

Stephen Lime wrote:

> Hi: Works the same as before. Problem is the symbol you're tring to scale. Line symbols
> of type STYLED are not scalable. You have to use type ELLIPSE symbols. Here's an
> example of an filled ellipse symbol radius 1,1 (i.e. a circle). This is scalable and results in
> circular of varying sizes.
>
> Symbol
>   Type ELLIPSE
>   Filled
>   Points
>     1 1
>   END
> END
>
> With 3.3 you can define styles within any symbol type and therefore can get scaled, complex
> symbols as well. Your millage may vary. Type STYLED symbols use a single pixel width lines
> only. Symbols are admittedly hard to work with, but you can do some wild things with them as
> they're pretty flexible.
>
> Steve
>
> Stephen Lime
> Internet Applications Analyst
>
> Minnesota DNR
> 500 Lafayette Road
> St. Paul, MN 55155
> 651-297-2937
>
> >>> Ma <marin at here.is> 02/04/00 03:12PM >>>
> How to scale symbols and text in 3.3.006. I did this in 3.3b but now
> there is something different.
> Here is part of the map file:
>
> ###############################
> # --- roads -------
>
> LAYER
>   NAME roads
>   TYPE LINE
>   STATUS OFF
>   DATA roads
>   TOLERANCE 0
>   SYMBOLSCALE 1000000
>
>   CLASSITEM RoadType
>   CLASS
>     NAME "Primary road"
>     EXPRESSION "Pr"
>     COLOR 255 000 00
>     SYMBOL 2   # this is the symbol from the distribution 3.3.006
>     MAXSIZE 5
>     MINSIZE 1
>   END
> END
>
> ###########
>
> Any ideas?
>
> --
> Ma



From peter.jacobs at vs42.nl  Tue Feb  8 09:47:23 2000
From: peter.jacobs at vs42.nl (Peter H.M. Jacobs)
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 18:47:23 +0100
Subject: How to use the querymap
Message-ID: <NDBBKMPGELCFDJPOHAMEKEKFCAAA.peter.jacobs@vs42.nl>


I have an Annotation Layer with streetlabels. I want to be able to enter a
textform, compare it with the values in the DBF file and create a map with
the street in the center of the new map.

Regards,

Peter Jacobs
------------------------
Student at Delft University of Technology
Delft, the Netherlands
email: p.h.m.jacobs at student.tudelft.nl




From peter.jacobs at vs42.nl  Tue Feb  8 14:14:11 2000
From: peter.jacobs at vs42.nl (Peter H.M. Jacobs)
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 23:14:11 +0100
Subject: FW: How to use the querymap
Message-ID: <NDBBKMPGELCFDJPOHAMEGEKGCAAA.peter.jacobs@vs42.nl>

Hello,

I figured out how to use the item/value itemquery with mapserver. I still
have one question. The shpminx and shpminy coordinates of the query locate
the Annotation point of the streets in my city.
Does anyone know how to create a new URL to the mapserver telling it to pan
the existing map to this point.
I tried x=[shpminx], mapext=[shpext] (but because it is only a point I get
an error), center_x=[shpminx], etc.)
I don't seem to be able to use the cooridnates for the creation of a new map

Regards,

Peter Jacobs



From kenboss at dilbert.dnr.state.mn.us  Tue Feb  8 14:43:38 2000
From: kenboss at dilbert.dnr.state.mn.us (kenboss)
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 16:43:38 -0600 (CST)
Subject: FW: How to use the querymap
Message-ID: <200002082243.QAA14026@philbert.dnr.state.mn.us>

I think you can do it with something like:

TEMPLATE "/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=path/to/street.map&scale=50000&mapxy=[shpmid]"

--Ken


> From: "Peter H.M. Jacobs" <peter.jacobs at vs42.nl>
> To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
> Subject: FW: How to use the querymap
> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 23:14:11 +0100
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200
> Importance: Normal
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I figured out how to use the item/value itemquery with mapserver. I still
> have one question. The shpminx and shpminy coordinates of the query locate
> the Annotation point of the streets in my city.
> Does anyone know how to create a new URL to the mapserver telling it to pan
> the existing map to this point.
> I tried x=[shpminx], mapext=[shpext] (but because it is only a point I get
> an error), center_x=[shpminx], etc.)
> I don't seem to be able to use the cooridnates for the creation of a new map
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter Jacobs
> 



From stephen.power at ea.gov.au  Tue Feb  8 17:22:16 2000
From: stephen.power at ea.gov.au (Stephen Power)
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 12:22:16 +1100
Subject: Loading of MS_3.3.006
Message-ID: <s8a15c04.078@parkes07.ea.gov.au>

I am having trouble getting the ms_3.3.006 to load in the cgi-bin dir.

I have downloaded the tar.z and reset all the required variables in the
makefile.

NB: there was no ini file in the download.

The sysem complies without error and seems to locate all the required
addition such as Freetype 1.2, GD 1.2 etc. but when I transfer the
mapserv to the cgi-bin directory (tere is no mapserv.inin created) and
try to link to it, I get the Server Problem error.

We have had mapserver 3.2 installed on the system and it works fine. I
have been thrhough the make files for this version and everything is the
same except for the regex in the new version. It doesn't appear to be
there.
The regex directory isn't in the new version either, although the
installation instruction say it should be.

Is this a problem and if so how can I get the regex stuff.

This is the first time I have installed this application. 
Can anyone assist 

Regards

Steve Power 


From pnaciona at gis.umn.edu  Tue Feb  8 19:29:32 2000
From: pnaciona at gis.umn.edu (Pericles S. Nacionales)
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 21:29:32 -0600
Subject: Loading of MS_3.3.006
In-Reply-To: <s8a15c04.078@parkes07.ea.gov.au>
Message-ID: <LOBBLKNLDDICEAJNDGPPCEIGCDAA.pnaciona@gis.umn.edu>

Steve,
  Some of the parameters that you used to specify on the mapserv.ini have
been incorporated into the map file.  I would recommend that you specify the
full path to your symbols and font sets (on the mapfile).  Also, when
defining the WEB object, use the keywords IMAGEPATH and IMAGEURL...  These
keywords should be in the map file documentation on the mapserver web site.

Here's an example map file:

NAME EX1
SHADESET "/usr/projects/demo/symbols/shade.sym"
MARKERSET "/usr/projects/demo/symbols/marker.sym"
LINESET "/usr/projects/demo/symbols/line.sym"
FONTSET "/usr/projects/demo/fonts/fonts.list"
STATUS ON
SIZE 600 600
UNITS METERS
SHAPEPATH "/usr/projects/demo/data"
IMAGECOLOR
... (stuff deleted)
WEB
    HEADER query/query_head.html
    TEMPLATE paths.html
    FOOTER query/query_foot.html
    MINSCALE 1000
    MAXSCALE 24000000
    IMAGEPATH "/usr/projects/tmp/"
    IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
END
---(other stuff follows)
END

If mapserv compiled properly on your machine, you most likely only need to
make the changes on your map files.

I hope this helps.

Perry Nacionales
pnaciona at gis.umn.edu


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mapserver-users at lists [mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists]On
> Behalf Of Stephen Power
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 7:22 PM
> To: <
> Subject: Loading of MS_3.3.006
>
>
> I am having trouble getting the ms_3.3.006 to load in the cgi-bin dir.
>
> I have downloaded the tar.z and reset all the required variables in the
> makefile.
>
> NB: there was no ini file in the download.
>
> The sysem complies without error and seems to locate all the required
> addition such as Freetype 1.2, GD 1.2 etc. but when I transfer the
> mapserv to the cgi-bin directory (tere is no mapserv.inin created) and
> try to link to it, I get the Server Problem error.
>
> We have had mapserver 3.2 installed on the system and it works fine. I
> have been thrhough the make files for this version and everything is the
> same except for the regex in the new version. It doesn't appear to be
> there.
> The regex directory isn't in the new version either, although the
> installation instruction say it should be.
>
> Is this a problem and if so how can I get the regex stuff.
>
> This is the first time I have installed this application.
> Can anyone assist
>
> Regards
>
> Steve Power
>



From sl57k at cc.usu.edu  Tue Feb  8 22:02:50 2000
From: sl57k at cc.usu.edu (Jason Maestri)
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 23:02:50 -0700
Subject: Logical Expressions...
Message-ID: <38A1030A.BEE27E11@cc.usu.edu>

Hey, has anybody been able to get the logical expression stuff to work
properly?  I am trying to do the folowing:
    ([LEVEL2] eq 'WATER')
It works as a regex, or a string exp, but not as a logical exp.  The
cases are correct (ie: the entries in the dbf are all in caps), as are
the names.  When I use this query, the whole layer dissapears.  Any
ideas?  I'd like to be able to  use:
    ([LEVEL2] eq 'WATER' and [PERIMITER] > 5000), or something similar.

Incidentally, ([LUCODE] < 15) works, but (16 > [LUCODE] < 1) does not.

Thanks in advance,
    Jason Maestri
    Utah Water Research Laboratory
    Utah State University



From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Wed Feb  9 08:14:10 2000
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 10:14:10 -0600
Subject: Logical Expressions...
Message-ID: <s8a13e0e.011@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>

You might have to quote the [LEVEL2] in the first example. I'm pretty sure
that strings must be quoted in logical expressions. Try:

('[LEVEL2]' eq 'WATER')

The (16 > [LUCODE] < 1) expression is malformed. Think SQL where
clauses. Instead try (([LUCODE] < 16) and ([LUCODE] > 1)) or something
similar.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

Minnesota DNR
500 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155
651-297-2937

>>> Jason Maestri <sl57k at cc.usu.edu> 02/09/00 12:02AM >>>
Hey, has anybody been able to get the logical expression stuff to work
properly?  I am trying to do the folowing:
    ([LEVEL2] eq 'WATER')
It works as a regex, or a string exp, but not as a logical exp.  The
cases are correct (ie: the entries in the dbf are all in caps), as are
the names.  When I use this query, the whole layer dissapears.  Any
ideas?  I'd like to be able to  use:
    ([LEVEL2] eq 'WATER' and [PERIMITER] > 5000), or something similar.

Incidentally, ([LUCODE] < 15) works, but (16 > [LUCODE] < 1) does not.

Thanks in advance,
    Jason Maestri
    Utah Water Research Laboratory
    Utah State University




From chetturv at sdhu.moh.gov.on.ca  Wed Feb  9 08:28:25 2000
From: chetturv at sdhu.moh.gov.on.ca (Vinod Chettur)
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 11:28:25 -0500 
Subject: Trouble running demo
Message-ID: <D8F1F8C7A8CFD311A91500A0C9ECD455876B@SDHU3>

Hello all,

I am trying to run the MapServer demo on NT with Apache and AOLserver. After
spending many frustrating days, I think I am doing something wrong with the
demo.map file. I am a web/database developer but not a GIS expert so I am
still coming to grips with the software. Here is the error I get:
getInteger(): Incorrect data type. (END):(8) 
If someone can point me in the right direction I would be grateful. This
software is great stuff. My demo.map follows.
Thanks, Vinod
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------

#
# Start of map file
#
NAME DEMO
STATUS ON
SIZE 600 600
SHADESET /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/symbols/shade.sym
MARKERSET /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/symbols/marker.sym
LINESET /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/symbols/line.sym
EXTENT 481093.000000 4969319.036682 502271.000000 4997508.3073184
UNITS METERS
SHAPEPATH "/AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data"
IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255

#LABELOVERLAP FALSE

#
# Start of web interface definition
#
WEB
  HEADER /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/demo_header.html
  TEMPLATE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/demo.html
  MINSCALE 1000
  MAXSCALE 1550000
END

#
# Start of reference map
#
REFERENCE
  IMAGE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/graphics/reference_base.gif
  EXTENT 481093.000000 4969319.036682 502271.000000 4997508.3073184
  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 county
  TYPE POLYGON
  STATUS DEFAULT
  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/county
  CLASS
    SYMBOL 0
    OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
    COLOR 248 248 95
  END
END

LAYER
  NAME landsat
  TYPE RASTER
  STATUS ON
  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/landsat.tif
  OFFSITE 0
END

LAYER
  NAME lakes
  TYPE POLYGON
  STATUS ON
  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/lakes
  TOLERANCE 3

  CLASSITEM usclass
  CLASS
    NAME "Water & Rivers"
    EXPRESSION "421"    
    COLOR 49 117 185
    BACKGROUNDCOLOR 32 201 201
    OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
  END
  CLASS
    EXPRESSION "^-"
    COLOR 255 0 0
    OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
  END

  QUERYITEM usclass
  QUERY
    EXPRESSION "421"
    TEMPLATE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/lakes.html
    	JOIN
	  NAME lakejoin
	  TABLE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/lakejoin.dbf
	  FROM islake # item names are case insensitive
 	 TO "type"  # must be quoted as TYPE is a mapserver keyword
	END

  END
  QUERY
  EXPRESSION "^-"
    TEMPLATE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/land.html
	JOIN
 	 NAME lakejoin
	  TABLE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/lakejoin.dbf
	  FROM islake # item names are case insensitive
	  TO "type"  # must be quoted as TYPE is a mapserver keyword
	END
  END
END # Layer

LAYER
  NAME streams
  TYPE LINE
  STATUS ON
  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/streams
  TOLERANCE 5

  CLASS
    NAME "Streams"
    COLOR 49 117 185
  END

  QUERY
    TEMPLATE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/streams.html
  END
END # Layer

LAYER
  NAME secondary_roads
  TYPE LINE
  STATUS OFF
  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/secondary
  MAXSCALE 50000
  SYMBOLSCALE 24000
  CLASS
    NAME "Secondary Roads"
    COLOR 212 212 212
    SYMBOL 13
    SIZE 2
    MAXSIZE 4
  END
END # Layer

LAYER
  NAME primary_roads
  TYPE LINE
  STATUS OFF
  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/primary
  SYMBOLSCALE 24000

  CLASS
    NAME "Primary Roads"
    COLOR 128 128 128
    SYMBOL 13	
    SIZE 3
    MAXSIZE 5
  END
END # Layer

LAYER
  NAME runways
  TYPE LINE
  STATUS OFF
  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/runways

  CLASS
    COLOR 30 94 30
    NAME "Airport Runways"
  END
END # Layer

LAYER
  NAME railroad
  TYPE LINE
  STATUS OFF
  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/railroad
  CLASS
    COLOR 151 151 151
    SYMBOL 4
    NAME "Railways"
  END
END # Layer

LAYER
  NAME cities
  TYPE ANNOTATION
  STATUS ON
  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/cities
  TOLERANCE 10

  LABELITEM "name"

  CLASS    
    SIZE 8
    COLOR 255 0 0
    SYMBOL 6
    LABEL
      BACKGROUNDCOLOR 200 255 255
      COLOR 30 94 94
      TYPE BITMAP
      #JUSTIFY CENTER
      SIZE GIANT
      POSITION AUTO
      WRAP " "
    END # Label
  END # Class

  QUERY
    TEMPLATE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/cities.html
  END # Query
END # Layer

END # Map File


From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Wed Feb  9 08:54:24 2000
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 10:54:24 -0600
Subject: Trouble running demo
Message-ID: <s8a1476b.026@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>

The problem is related to format changes made to line symbols. A "corrected"
version of line.sym is found in the mapserver distribution in the symbols directory.
Swap that version with the one referenced in the demo.map and that error should
go away. I've attached that file just in case you don't have it.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

Minnesota DNR
500 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155
651-297-2937

>>> Vinod Chettur <chetturv at sdhu.moh.gov.on.ca> 02/09/00 10:28AM >>>
Hello all,

I am trying to run the MapServer demo on NT with Apache and AOLserver. After
spending many frustrating days, I think I am doing something wrong with the
demo.map file. I am a web/database developer but not a GIS expert so I am
still coming to grips with the software. Here is the error I get:
getInteger(): Incorrect data type. (END):(8) 
If someone can point me in the right direction I would be grateful. This
software is great stuff. My demo.map follows.
Thanks, Vinod
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------

#
# Start of map file
#
NAME DEMO
STATUS ON
SIZE 600 600
SHADESET /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/symbols/shade.sym
MARKERSET /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/symbols/marker.sym
LINESET /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/symbols/line.sym
EXTENT 481093.000000 4969319.036682 502271.000000 4997508.3073184
UNITS METERS
SHAPEPATH "/AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data"
IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255

#LABELOVERLAP FALSE

#
# Start of web interface definition
#
WEB
  HEADER /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/demo_header.html
  TEMPLATE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/demo.html
  MINSCALE 1000
  MAXSCALE 1550000
END

#
# Start of reference map
#
REFERENCE
  IMAGE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/graphics/reference_base.gif
  EXTENT 481093.000000 4969319.036682 502271.000000 4997508.3073184
  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 county
  TYPE POLYGON
  STATUS DEFAULT
  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/county
  CLASS
    SYMBOL 0
    OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
    COLOR 248 248 95
  END
END

LAYER
  NAME landsat
  TYPE RASTER
  STATUS ON
  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/landsat.tif
  OFFSITE 0
END

LAYER
  NAME lakes
  TYPE POLYGON
  STATUS ON
  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/lakes
  TOLERANCE 3

  CLASSITEM usclass
  CLASS
    NAME "Water & Rivers"
    EXPRESSION "421"    
    COLOR 49 117 185
    BACKGROUNDCOLOR 32 201 201
    OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
  END
  CLASS
    EXPRESSION "^-"
    COLOR 255 0 0
    OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
  END

  QUERYITEM usclass
  QUERY
    EXPRESSION "421"
    TEMPLATE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/lakes.html
    	JOIN
	  NAME lakejoin
	  TABLE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/lakejoin.dbf
	  FROM islake # item names are case insensitive
 	 TO "type"  # must be quoted as TYPE is a mapserver keyword
	END

  END
  QUERY
  EXPRESSION "^-"
    TEMPLATE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/land.html
	JOIN
 	 NAME lakejoin
	  TABLE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/lakejoin.dbf
	  FROM islake # item names are case insensitive
	  TO "type"  # must be quoted as TYPE is a mapserver keyword
	END
  END
END # Layer

LAYER
  NAME streams
  TYPE LINE
  STATUS ON
  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/streams
  TOLERANCE 5

  CLASS
    NAME "Streams"
    COLOR 49 117 185
  END

  QUERY
    TEMPLATE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/streams.html
  END
END # Layer

LAYER
  NAME secondary_roads
  TYPE LINE
  STATUS OFF
  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/secondary
  MAXSCALE 50000
  SYMBOLSCALE 24000
  CLASS
    NAME "Secondary Roads"
    COLOR 212 212 212
    SYMBOL 13
    SIZE 2
    MAXSIZE 4
  END
END # Layer

LAYER
  NAME primary_roads
  TYPE LINE
  STATUS OFF
  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/primary
  SYMBOLSCALE 24000

  CLASS
    NAME "Primary Roads"
    COLOR 128 128 128
    SYMBOL 13	
    SIZE 3
    MAXSIZE 5
  END
END # Layer

LAYER
  NAME runways
  TYPE LINE
  STATUS OFF
  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/runways

  CLASS
    COLOR 30 94 30
    NAME "Airport Runways"
  END
END # Layer

LAYER
  NAME railroad
  TYPE LINE
  STATUS OFF
  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/railroad
  CLASS
    COLOR 151 151 151
    SYMBOL 4
    NAME "Railways"
  END
END # Layer

LAYER
  NAME cities
  TYPE ANNOTATION
  STATUS ON
  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/cities
  TOLERANCE 10

  LABELITEM "name"

  CLASS    
    SIZE 8
    COLOR 255 0 0
    SYMBOL 6
    LABEL
      BACKGROUNDCOLOR 200 255 255
      COLOR 30 94 94
      TYPE BITMAP
      #JUSTIFY CENTER
      SIZE GIANT
      POSITION AUTO
      WRAP " "
    END # Label
  END # Class

  QUERY
    TEMPLATE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/cities.html
  END # Query
END # Layer

END # Map File
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From danmo at videotron.ca  Wed Feb  9 08:48:01 2000
From: danmo at videotron.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 11:48:01 -0500
Subject: Trouble running demo
References: <D8F1F8C7A8CFD311A91500A0C9ECD455876B@SDHU3>
Message-ID: <38A19A41.610F5583@videotron.ca>

Vinod Chettur wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to run the MapServer demo on NT with Apache and AOLserver. After
> spending many frustrating days, I think I am doing something wrong with the
> demo.map file. I am a web/database developer but not a GIS expert so I am
> still coming to grips with the software. Here is the error I get:
> getInteger(): Incorrect data type. (END):(8)
> If someone can point me in the right direction I would be grateful. This
> software is great stuff. My demo.map follows.
> Thanks, Vinod
> 
I ran into the same thing.  The workaround for me was to comment out the
following line in the .map file:

> LINESET /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/symbols/line.sym

I'm not sure what the cause is, probably a change in the line symbol
file format???  I didn't look into it further because I didn't need
line.sym anyways.

Good Luck!
-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette                       danmo at videotron.ca
              http://pages.infinit.net/danmo/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.


From anguy at geoanalytic.com  Wed Feb  9 09:10:11 2000
From: anguy at geoanalytic.com (An Tay Nguy)
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 10:10:11 -0700
Subject: Trouble running demo
Message-ID: <005201bf7320$864304b0$3a0002c0@dell>

Hi Vinod,

Try updating your symbols file with these.

Cheers!

-----Original Message-----
From: Vinod Chettur <chetturv at sdhu.moh.gov.on.ca>
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Date: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 9:50 AM
Subject: RE: Trouble running demo


>Hello all,
>
>I am trying to run the MapServer demo on NT with Apache and AOLserver.
After
>spending many frustrating days, I think I am doing something wrong with the
>demo.map file. I am a web/database developer but not a GIS expert so I am
>still coming to grips with the software. Here is the error I get:
>getInteger(): Incorrect data type. (END):(8)
>If someone can point me in the right direction I would be grateful. This
>software is great stuff. My demo.map follows.
>Thanks, Vinod
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
>----------------------
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
>----------------------
>
>#
># Start of map file
>#
>NAME DEMO
>STATUS ON
>SIZE 600 600
>SHADESET /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/symbols/shade.sym
>MARKERSET /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/symbols/marker.sym
>LINESET /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/symbols/line.sym
>EXTENT 481093.000000 4969319.036682 502271.000000 4997508.3073184
>UNITS METERS
>SHAPEPATH "/AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data"
>IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
>
>#LABELOVERLAP FALSE
>
>#
># Start of web interface definition
>#
>WEB
>  HEADER /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/demo_header.html
>  TEMPLATE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/demo.html
>  MINSCALE 1000
>  MAXSCALE 1550000
>END
>
>#
># Start of reference map
>#
>REFERENCE
>  IMAGE
/AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/graphics/reference_base.gif
>  EXTENT 481093.000000 4969319.036682 502271.000000 4997508.3073184
>  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 county
>  TYPE POLYGON
>  STATUS DEFAULT
>  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/county
>  CLASS
>    SYMBOL 0
>    OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
>    COLOR 248 248 95
>  END
>END
>
>LAYER
>  NAME landsat
>  TYPE RASTER
>  STATUS ON
>  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/landsat.tif
>  OFFSITE 0
>END
>
>LAYER
>  NAME lakes
>  TYPE POLYGON
>  STATUS ON
>  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/lakes
>  TOLERANCE 3
>
>  CLASSITEM usclass
>  CLASS
>    NAME "Water & Rivers"
>    EXPRESSION "421"
>    COLOR 49 117 185
>    BACKGROUNDCOLOR 32 201 201
>    OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
>  END
>  CLASS
>    EXPRESSION "^-"
>    COLOR 255 0 0
>    OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
>  END
>
>  QUERYITEM usclass
>  QUERY
>    EXPRESSION "421"
>    TEMPLATE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/lakes.html
>    JOIN
>   NAME lakejoin
>   TABLE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/lakejoin.dbf
>   FROM islake # item names are case insensitive
> TO "type"  # must be quoted as TYPE is a mapserver keyword
> END
>
>  END
>  QUERY
>  EXPRESSION "^-"
>    TEMPLATE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/land.html
> JOIN
> NAME lakejoin
>   TABLE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/lakejoin.dbf
>   FROM islake # item names are case insensitive
>   TO "type"  # must be quoted as TYPE is a mapserver keyword
> END
>  END
>END # Layer
>
>LAYER
>  NAME streams
>  TYPE LINE
>  STATUS ON
>  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/streams
>  TOLERANCE 5
>
>  CLASS
>    NAME "Streams"
>    COLOR 49 117 185
>  END
>
>  QUERY
>    TEMPLATE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/streams.html
>  END
>END # Layer
>
>LAYER
>  NAME secondary_roads
>  TYPE LINE
>  STATUS OFF
>  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/secondary
>  MAXSCALE 50000
>  SYMBOLSCALE 24000
>  CLASS
>    NAME "Secondary Roads"
>    COLOR 212 212 212
>    SYMBOL 13
>    SIZE 2
>    MAXSIZE 4
>  END
>END # Layer
>
>LAYER
>  NAME primary_roads
>  TYPE LINE
>  STATUS OFF
>  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/primary
>  SYMBOLSCALE 24000
>
>  CLASS
>    NAME "Primary Roads"
>    COLOR 128 128 128
>    SYMBOL 13
>    SIZE 3
>    MAXSIZE 5
>  END
>END # Layer
>
>LAYER
>  NAME runways
>  TYPE LINE
>  STATUS OFF
>  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/runways
>
>  CLASS
>    COLOR 30 94 30
>    NAME "Airport Runways"
>  END
>END # Layer
>
>LAYER
>  NAME railroad
>  TYPE LINE
>  STATUS OFF
>  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/railroad
>  CLASS
>    COLOR 151 151 151
>    SYMBOL 4
>    NAME "Railways"
>  END
>END # Layer
>
>LAYER
>  NAME cities
>  TYPE ANNOTATION
>  STATUS ON
>  DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/cities
>  TOLERANCE 10
>
>  LABELITEM "name"
>
>  CLASS
>    SIZE 8
>    COLOR 255 0 0
>    SYMBOL 6
>    LABEL
>      BACKGROUNDCOLOR 200 255 255
>      COLOR 30 94 94
>      TYPE BITMAP
>      #JUSTIFY CENTER
>      SIZE GIANT
>      POSITION AUTO
>      WRAP " "
>    END # Label
>  END # Class
>
>  QUERY
>    TEMPLATE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/cities.html
>  END # Query
>END # Layer
>
>END # Map File
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From chetturv at sdhu.moh.gov.on.ca  Wed Feb  9 10:55:51 2000
From: chetturv at sdhu.moh.gov.on.ca (Vinod Chettur)
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 13:55:51 -0500 
Subject: Trouble running demo
Message-ID: <D8F1F8C7A8CFD311A91500A0C9ECD455876C@SDHU3>

Fantastic! Thanks a lot. It worked.
Vinod

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Stephen Lime [SMTP:steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us]
> Sent:	Wednesday, February 09, 2000 11:54 AM
> To:	mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu; chetturv at sdhu.moh.gov.on.ca
> Subject:	RE: Trouble running demo
> 
> The problem is related to format changes made to line symbols. A
> "corrected"
> version of line.sym is found in the mapserver distribution in the symbols
> directory.
> Swap that version with the one referenced in the demo.map and that error
> should
> go away. I've attached that file just in case you don't have it.
> 
> Steve
> 
> Stephen Lime
> Internet Applications Analyst
> 
> Minnesota DNR
> 500 Lafayette Road
> St. Paul, MN 55155
> 651-297-2937
> 
> >>> Vinod Chettur <chetturv at sdhu.moh.gov.on.ca> 02/09/00 10:28AM >>>
> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to run the MapServer demo on NT with Apache and AOLserver.
> After
> spending many frustrating days, I think I am doing something wrong with
> the
> demo.map file. I am a web/database developer but not a GIS expert so I am
> still coming to grips with the software. Here is the error I get:
> getInteger(): Incorrect data type. (END):(8) 
> If someone can point me in the right direction I would be grateful. This
> software is great stuff. My demo.map follows.
> Thanks, Vinod
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> ----------------------
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> ----------------------
> 
> #
> # Start of map file
> #
> NAME DEMO
> STATUS ON
> SIZE 600 600
> SHADESET /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/symbols/shade.sym
> MARKERSET /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/symbols/marker.sym
> LINESET /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/symbols/line.sym
> EXTENT 481093.000000 4969319.036682 502271.000000 4997508.3073184
> UNITS METERS
> SHAPEPATH "/AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data"
> IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
> 
> #LABELOVERLAP FALSE
> 
> #
> # Start of web interface definition
> #
> WEB
>   HEADER /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/demo_header.html
>   TEMPLATE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/demo.html
>   MINSCALE 1000
>   MAXSCALE 1550000
> END
> 
> #
> # Start of reference map
> #
> REFERENCE
>   IMAGE
> /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/graphics/reference_base.gif
>   EXTENT 481093.000000 4969319.036682 502271.000000 4997508.3073184
>   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 county
>   TYPE POLYGON
>   STATUS DEFAULT
>   DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/county
>   CLASS
>     SYMBOL 0
>     OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
>     COLOR 248 248 95
>   END
> END
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME landsat
>   TYPE RASTER
>   STATUS ON
>   DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/landsat.tif
>   OFFSITE 0
> END
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME lakes
>   TYPE POLYGON
>   STATUS ON
>   DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/lakes
>   TOLERANCE 3
> 
>   CLASSITEM usclass
>   CLASS
>     NAME "Water & Rivers"
>     EXPRESSION "421"    
>     COLOR 49 117 185
>     BACKGROUNDCOLOR 32 201 201
>     OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
>   END
>   CLASS
>     EXPRESSION "^-"
>     COLOR 255 0 0
>     OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
>   END
> 
>   QUERYITEM usclass
>   QUERY
>     EXPRESSION "421"
>     TEMPLATE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/lakes.html
>     	JOIN
> 	  NAME lakejoin
> 	  TABLE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/lakejoin.dbf
> 	  FROM islake # item names are case insensitive
>  	 TO "type"  # must be quoted as TYPE is a mapserver keyword
> 	END
> 
>   END
>   QUERY
>   EXPRESSION "^-"
>     TEMPLATE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/land.html
> 	JOIN
>  	 NAME lakejoin
> 	  TABLE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/lakejoin.dbf
> 	  FROM islake # item names are case insensitive
> 	  TO "type"  # must be quoted as TYPE is a mapserver keyword
> 	END
>   END
> END # Layer
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME streams
>   TYPE LINE
>   STATUS ON
>   DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/streams
>   TOLERANCE 5
> 
>   CLASS
>     NAME "Streams"
>     COLOR 49 117 185
>   END
> 
>   QUERY
>     TEMPLATE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/streams.html
>   END
> END # Layer
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME secondary_roads
>   TYPE LINE
>   STATUS OFF
>   DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/secondary
>   MAXSCALE 50000
>   SYMBOLSCALE 24000
>   CLASS
>     NAME "Secondary Roads"
>     COLOR 212 212 212
>     SYMBOL 13
>     SIZE 2
>     MAXSIZE 4
>   END
> END # Layer
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME primary_roads
>   TYPE LINE
>   STATUS OFF
>   DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/primary
>   SYMBOLSCALE 24000
> 
>   CLASS
>     NAME "Primary Roads"
>     COLOR 128 128 128
>     SYMBOL 13	
>     SIZE 3
>     MAXSIZE 5
>   END
> END # Layer
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME runways
>   TYPE LINE
>   STATUS OFF
>   DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/runways
> 
>   CLASS
>     COLOR 30 94 30
>     NAME "Airport Runways"
>   END
> END # Layer
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME railroad
>   TYPE LINE
>   STATUS OFF
>   DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/railroad
>   CLASS
>     COLOR 151 151 151
>     SYMBOL 4
>     NAME "Railways"
>   END
> END # Layer
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME cities
>   TYPE ANNOTATION
>   STATUS ON
>   DATA /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/data/cities
>   TOLERANCE 10
> 
>   LABELITEM "name"
> 
>   CLASS    
>     SIZE 8
>     COLOR 255 0 0
>     SYMBOL 6
>     LABEL
>       BACKGROUNDCOLOR 200 255 255
>       COLOR 30 94 94
>       TYPE BITMAP
>       #JUSTIFY CENTER
>       SIZE GIANT
>       POSITION AUTO
>       WRAP " "
>     END # Label
>   END # Class
> 
>   QUERY
>     TEMPLATE /AOLserver/servers/server1/pages/ms_demo/cities.html
>   END # Query
> END # Layer
> 
> END # Map File << File: line.sym >> 


From marin at here.is  Wed Feb  9 16:36:56 2000
From: marin at here.is (Ma)
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 00:36:56 +0000
Subject: MapServer Sites
Message-ID: <38A20826.62B2B6CA@here.is>

Dear All,

I would like to take a look what the other users do with MapServer in
the web.
Do you have some URLs?

--
Ma






From mdh20 at humboldt.edu  Wed Feb  9 17:05:38 2000
From: mdh20 at humboldt.edu (Michael Hass)
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 17:05:38 -0800 (PST)
Subject: MapServer Sites
In-Reply-To: <38A20826.62B2B6CA@here.is>
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10002091702440.21056-100000@axe.humboldt.edu>

We've got a "workman" version of both java and nonjava style running at
http://pixel.cnrs.humboldt.edu/krfrtf/

They are both using 3.2 with 3.3.xxx coming soon.
I would be really interested to see some sites that 
are applying the types of query discussions that 
have been on the list lately. Also if looking at
my map files would be helpful, let me know.
Mike Hass

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Ma wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> I would like to take a look what the other users do with MapServer in
> the web.
> Do you have some URLs?
> 
> --
> Ma
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 



From imap at chesapeake.net  Wed Feb  9 23:16:42 2000
From: imap at chesapeake.net (imap at chesapeake.net)
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 02:16:42 -0500
Subject: MapServer Sites
References: <38A20826.62B2B6CA@here.is>
Message-ID: <38A265DA.C74CC18C@chesapeake.net>



I have a demo version of the AccuWeather FirstWarn MapServer 
at  http://imap.chesapeake.net/firstwarn/firstwarn.html

The weather data is near realtime (5 minute intervals)

The controls for "saved views" and "animation" have been
stripped off on this version.  In the next few days, I
will to try to set up something that demonstrates the 
animation on this web version (very cool).

It is also using a flawed version of Tiger/Line '97... 
but still it works okay for my purposes.  

If you zoom way in, you will see street labels, etc.
The fonts and markers are larger than normal mainly
because the "real" app is setup to display on NTSC (TV).

The app uses the java mapimage.newmap() is a little slow.
That is the main complaint.

Regards,

Chris

Ma wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I would like to take a look what the other users do with MapServer in
> the web.
> Do you have some URLs?
> 
> --
> Ma

-- 

Chris Stuber (mapsurfer)
Silicon Mapping Solutions, Inc.
410-257-3187


From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Thu Feb 10 09:46:36 2000
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 11:46:36 -0600
Subject: MapServer Sites
Message-ID: <s8a2a532.075@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>

Here's my full list...

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/compass 
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/lakefind 
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/gamefind/deer/map.html http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/fish_and_wildlife/trout_fishing/se_trout_init.html 
http://deli.dnr.state.mn.us/ 
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/information_center/resources/ 

A couple of DRG viewer examples...

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/cgi-bin/mapserv3.3?map=/usr/local/www/docs/mapping/quads/view.map&layer=quads100k&buffer=5080&mode=nquery&mapxy=566130.70385+5240714.89808 

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/mapping/tomo/maps.html?566130.70385,5240714.89808 

A small 3.3 demo suite is at:

http://arachnid.dnr.state.mn.us/ms_test 

I've got other stuff running in other agencies and hopefully those users will chime in here too. 

Be sure to check out DNR Resource Assessment for lots of apps:

http://www.ra.dnr.state.mn.us/ 

Steve

<<< Ma <marin at here.is>  2/ 9  6:32p >>>
Dear All,

I would like to take a look what the other users do with MapServer in
the web.
Do you have some URLs?

--
Ma







From joel at crrel.usace.army.mil  Thu Feb 10 10:16:30 2000
From: joel at crrel.usace.army.mil (Joel Schlagel)
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:16:30 -0500
Subject: tile problem: loadLayer(): Unknown identifier. (INDEX)
Message-ID: <NDBBJLOOAKFLKMBJPNMIIEHFCAAA.joel@crrel.usace.army.mil>

hi!
i think i'm missing something on tiling maps.

i've got a state index cover, and tiger road files for each state, and this
simple template:


NAME road_tile
STATUS ON
SIZE 600 600
EXTENT -82 31 -81 32
UNITS DD
IMAGECOLOR 100 100 150
TILE "/s7/tiger/road/"

WEB
  IMAGEPATH "/home/httpd/html/tmp/"
  IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
  TEMPLATE "z.html"
END


LAYER   
  NAME "road"
  INDEX "/s7/tiger/road/road_index"
#  DATA "/s7/tiger/road/ga"
  TYPE line
  STATUS DEFAULT
  CLASS
    SYMBOL 0
    COLOR 248 248 248
  END
END 


Mapserver returns the error:

  loadLayer(): Unknown identifier. (INDEX) 

with this template.  i've got the same problem with 3.3.002 and 3.3.006.

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

thanks

mapserver rocks!

joel





------- replay of instructions for using tiles -----

i think i've followed these clear instructions:

*	From: "bfraser" <bfraser at geoanalytic.ab.ca
<mailto:bfraser at geoanalytic.ab.ca>> 
*	Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 08:40:49 -0600 
*	References: <380263A6.B00A5039 at randomlogic.com <msg00039.html>> 
*	Sender: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
<mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu> 

Paul,

  As long as you don't want to query the data in the tiles, you
can use the tiling feature in MapServer.

1.  Create a shapefile containing the outlines of the counties
2.  Create a column in the shapefile with the name of LOCATION
3.  For each county outline shape in the shapefile, enter the filename
     of the county shapefile in the LOCATION column (leave off the
     .shp )
4.  Edit the "map" file.   Add an entry for TILE at the top.   This
     contains the path to the directory containing county files.  It is
     prepended to the name in the LOCATION column to build the
     full path to the shapefiles.

    Add a  LAYER entry with an INDEX entry.  The index is the name
    of the shapefile you created in step 1.

A couple of notes about tiles:
    1. The tile index shapefile and the "data" shapefiles must be in
        the same coordinate system.
    2. Mapserver will not query data in tiled files.

Brent


----------------------------
Joel Schlagel
(603) 646-4387


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From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Thu Feb 10 10:45:48 2000
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:45:48 -0600
Subject: 3.3.007 is released...
Message-ID: <s8a2b308.082@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>

Greetings: A few more bugs have been tracked down and fixed. This version
introduces the ability to embed scalebars and legends directly within maps. This
is also the first version of MapScript to expose the MapServer query functions.
So, from perl you can query one or more layers by point, area or feature. Item/value
queries are best handled with the various XBase modules available to scripting
languages and are not supported as part of MapScript.

I will update the online docs this evening...

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

Minnesota DNR
500 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155
651-297-2937



From teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu  Thu Feb 10 11:59:40 2000
From: teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu (Thomas E. Burk)
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:59:40 -0600 (CST)
Subject: MapServer Sites
Message-ID: <200002101959.NAA19191@mallit.fr.umn.edu>

We'd be very happy to add people's application URLs to the MapServer Gallery 
page. We only want to do this with permission though.

If you have an URL you're willing to share, send the URL and a couple sentence 
(or so) description to accompany the URL to <mapserver-info at lists.gis.umn.edu> 
and we'll do it.

Tom


From ender at titan.lab.csuchico.edu  Thu Feb 10 08:57:55 2000
From: ender at titan.lab.csuchico.edu (ender at titan.lab.csuchico.edu)
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:57:55 +0000 (/etc/localtime)
Subject: mapserver sites
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0002101655590.29870-100000@titan.lab.csuchico.edu>


I've got a site where I use a mix of pre-rendered views along with the
mapserver interface.  I'm working on getting funding to expand it to
include javascript interfaces as well as building a SQL database to drive
it (it uses flatfile databases now).


http://www.gic.csuchico.edu/compendium


-Aaron





From sl57k at cc.usu.edu  Thu Feb 10 21:27:56 2000
From: sl57k at cc.usu.edu (Jason Maestri)
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 22:27:56 -0700
Subject: MapServer Sites
References: <38A20826.62B2B6CA@here.is>
Message-ID: <38A39DDC.1B15B174@cc.usu.edu>

Ma,
    Here is a link to one of the applications that we are developing.  We
have only put about 50 man hours into it, so it is still pretty rough...
(we will be adding some modeling interfaces to it, as well as some
hydrological simulations)

 Riparia:

Ma wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I would like to take a look what the other users do with MapServer in
> the web.
> Do you have some URLs?
>
> --
> Ma
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From fsvpss at eng.chula.ac.th  Fri Feb 11 01:00:15 2000
From: fsvpss at eng.chula.ac.th (Phisan Santitamnont)
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 16:00:15 +0700
Subject: MapServer Sites
Message-ID: <38A3CF9F.5034E6D1@eng.chula.ac.th>

Greeting... colleagues at NuMap/Thailand and i
are implementing a traffic report system too.

Pls take a look at :
http://mapserver.ocmlt.or.th

Don'r worry about text, it's Thai language.
Thanks Steve and co.


Rgds,
--
Phisan Santitamnont, Dr.-Ing.
Survey Engineering Department
Chulalongkorn University
Pathumwan Rd, Bangkok 10330
Tel. +66 (2) 218 66 61
Fax. +66 (2) 218 66 53
mailto:fsvpss at eng.chula.ac.th
http://www.sv.eng.chula.ac.th/Staff/Phisan




From fsvpss at eng.chula.ac.th  Fri Feb 11 03:15:56 2000
From: fsvpss at eng.chula.ac.th (Phisan Santitamnont)
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 18:15:56 +0700
Subject: Another mapserver site
Message-ID: <38A3EF6C.F25F3EDC@eng.chula.ac.th>

Dear all,

sorry for wrong tippo.

the correct one is
http://mapserver.ocmlt.go.th/


Sorry for inconvenience.


Rgds,

--
Phisan Santitamnont, Dr.-Ing.
Survey Engineering Department
Chulalongkorn University
Pathumwan Rd, Bangkok 10330
Tel. +66 (2) 218 66 61
Fax. +66 (2) 218 66 53
mailto:fsvpss at eng.chula.ac.th
http://www.sv.eng.chula.ac.th/Staff/Phisan




From bfischer at usgs.gov  Fri Feb 11 09:15:01 2000
From: bfischer at usgs.gov (bfischer at usgs.gov)
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 11:15:01 -0600
Subject: Question about fonts?
Message-ID: <OF08E19ABA.CEC6018B-ON86256882.005E227A@cr.usgs.gov>

I am very new to the mapserver and am starting to play around with things.
I ran into a problem with the fonts.  I am using the NT version of
Mapserver running under Windows NT IIS.  This is the error I get from the
mapserv.exe:

msGetLabelSize(): TrueType Font error. Requested font (arial) not found

I figure I don't have the fonts set  or put where they need to be.  Here is
the map file I am using.

NAME MAJOR_BASINS
EXTENT 74000 4775000 798000 5500000
SIZE 400 400
UNITS meters

       WEB
         TEMPLATE major_watershed.htm
       END

       LEGEND
        STATUS ON
        LABEL
          TYPE TRUETYPE
          FONT arial
          COLOR 0 0 0
          SIZE 12
          ANTIALIAS
        END
       END

       SCALEBAR
         STATUS ON
         INTERVALS 4
         SIZE 200 2
         COLOR 0 0 0
         OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
         UNITS MILES
         LABEL
           COLOR 0 0 0
           SIZE small
         END
        END

       REFERENCE
         STATUS ON
         IMAGE reference_major.gif
         SIZE 150 150
         EXTENT 125105 4785412 788393 5488749
         COLOR -1 -1 -1
         OUTLINECOLOR 255 0 0
       END

       LAYER
         NAME "major_basins"
         DATA major_basins
         STATUS DEFAULT
         TYPE POLYGON
         CLASS
           NAME "Major Basin Delineations"
           OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
           COLOR 250 175 25
         END
       END

       LAYER
         NAME "county"
         DATA ctybdln2
         STATUS DEFAULT
         TYPE LINE
         CLASS
           NAME "County Boundaries"
           COLOR 128 128 128
         END
       END
END

Thanks,

Brian Fischer
bfischer at usgs.gov
USGS WRD
2280 Woodale Dr.
Mounds View, MN
(612) 783-3133




From pnaciona at gis.umn.edu  Fri Feb 11 12:59:28 2000
From: pnaciona at gis.umn.edu (Pericles S. Nacionales)
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:59:28 -0600
Subject: Question about fonts?
References: <OF08E19ABA.CEC6018B-ON86256882.005E227A@cr.usgs.gov>
Message-ID: <00ae01bf74d2$e2e6bd70$9a496580@gis.umn.edu>

Brian,
  I'm working on implementing Steve Lime's tutorial on Windows NT.  You can
access it from http://128.101.73.154/projects/tutorial  Your map file looks
like it needs more stuff before it works... (specify the font set, symbol
sets, Image and data paths).  Steve's tutorial goes through examples of
simple map and template files.  Hope this helps.

-Perry

Pericles S. Nacionales
Research Assistant
Department of Forest Resources
University of Minnesota

pnaciona at gis.umn.edu
(612) 625 5765
----- Original Message -----
From: <bfischer at usgs.gov>
To: <mapserver-users at lists>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 11:15 AM
Subject: Question about fonts?


> I am very new to the mapserver and am starting to play around with things.
> I ran into a problem with the fonts.  I am using the NT version of
> Mapserver running under Windows NT IIS.  This is the error I get from the
> mapserv.exe:
>
> msGetLabelSize(): TrueType Font error. Requested font (arial) not found
>
> I figure I don't have the fonts set  or put where they need to be.  Here
is
> the map file I am using.
>
> NAME MAJOR_BASINS
> EXTENT 74000 4775000 798000 5500000
> SIZE 400 400
> UNITS meters
>
>        WEB
>          TEMPLATE major_watershed.htm
>        END
>
>        LEGEND
>         STATUS ON
>         LABEL
>           TYPE TRUETYPE
>           FONT arial
>           COLOR 0 0 0
>           SIZE 12
>           ANTIALIAS
>         END
>        END
>
>        SCALEBAR
>          STATUS ON
>          INTERVALS 4
>          SIZE 200 2
>          COLOR 0 0 0
>          OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
>          UNITS MILES
>          LABEL
>            COLOR 0 0 0
>            SIZE small
>          END
>         END
>
>        REFERENCE
>          STATUS ON
>          IMAGE reference_major.gif
>          SIZE 150 150
>          EXTENT 125105 4785412 788393 5488749
>          COLOR -1 -1 -1
>          OUTLINECOLOR 255 0 0
>        END
>
>        LAYER
>          NAME "major_basins"
>          DATA major_basins
>          STATUS DEFAULT
>          TYPE POLYGON
>          CLASS
>            NAME "Major Basin Delineations"
>            OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
>            COLOR 250 175 25
>          END
>        END
>
>        LAYER
>          NAME "county"
>          DATA ctybdln2
>          STATUS DEFAULT
>          TYPE LINE
>          CLASS
>            NAME "County Boundaries"
>            COLOR 128 128 128
>          END
>        END
> END
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian Fischer
> bfischer at usgs.gov
> USGS WRD
> 2280 Woodale Dr.
> Mounds View, MN
> (612) 783-3133
>
>



From peter.jacobs at vs42.nl  Fri Feb 11 17:21:08 2000
From: peter.jacobs at vs42.nl (Peter H.M. Jacobs)
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 02:21:08 +0100
Subject: how to point out a query
Message-ID: <NDBBKMPGELCFDJPOHAMEAELACAAA.peter.jacobs@vs42.nl>

Hello,

I have the following question. I use a annotation layer with the labels of
the streets of a city. When I query this layer a new map is drawn with te
selected street centered in the middle. Can I change the color of the
selected label or perhaps even draw a little picture (like a flag) on top op
the selected label

Thanks for helping me out,

Peter Jacobs



From peter.jacobs at vs42.nl  Sun Feb 13 06:35:04 2000
From: peter.jacobs at vs42.nl (Peter H.M. Jacobs)
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 15:35:04 +0100
Subject: problem with class expression
Message-ID: <NDBBKMPGELCFDJPOHAMEIELCCAAA.peter.jacobs@vs42.nl>

Hello,

I'm having trouble with a class expression. This is the case

LAYER
   NAME Layer18Text # Straatnamen doorlopende wegen
   TYPE ANNOTATION
   STATUS DEFAULT
   DATA Layer18Text
   MAXSCALE 12000
   LABELITEM "TEXTSTRING"
   LABELANGLEITEM "TEXT_ANGLE"
   LABELSIZEITEM "TEXT_SIZE"
   CLASSITEM "TEXTSTRING"
   CLASS
     NAME SELECTED
 !!  EXPRESSION ([TEXTSTRING] eq [value]) #value is a cgi-variable from
MySQL It doesn't work !!
     SYMBOL 0
     COLOR 0 0 0
     LABEL
        ANTIALIAS
        COLOR 0 0 0
        FONT arial
	  TYPE TRUETYPE
        SIZE 20
        POSITION UR
     END
   END
   CLASS
	NAME NOTSELECTED
	EXPRESSION /./ #the rest
   ...
   END
END

If I try for example 'Markt' instead of [value] where I know that there is a
street Markt the expression is still not correct. I tried to use the feature
but this failed as well

FEATURE
	POINTS [shpmid]
      CLASS SELECTED
	TEXT "TEXTSTRING]
END

Is there anyone who can help me
Regards,

Peter



From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Sun Feb 13 20:41:18 2000
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 22:41:18 -0600
Subject: problem with class expression
Message-ID: <s8a7332e.076@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>

Peter: What you're trying to do (in both examples) is not possible. That's not to say that there isn't another way to do it. So, exactly what are you trying to do?

Steve

<<< "Peter H.M. Jacobs" <peter.jacobs at vs42.nl>  2/13  8:33a >>>
Hello,

I'm having trouble with a class expression. This is the case

LAYER
   NAME Layer18Text # Straatnamen doorlopende wegen
   TYPE ANNOTATION
   STATUS DEFAULT
   DATA Layer18Text
   MAXSCALE 12000
   LABELITEM "TEXTSTRING"
   LABELANGLEITEM "TEXT_ANGLE"
   LABELSIZEITEM "TEXT_SIZE"
   CLASSITEM "TEXTSTRING"
   CLASS
     NAME SELECTED
 !!  EXPRESSION ([TEXTSTRING] eq [value]) #value is a cgi-variable from
MySQL It doesn't work !!
     SYMBOL 0
     COLOR 0 0 0
     LABEL
        ANTIALIAS
        COLOR 0 0 0
        FONT arial
	  TYPE TRUETYPE
        SIZE 20
        POSITION UR
     END
   END
   CLASS
	NAME NOTSELECTED
	EXPRESSION /./ #the rest
   ...
   END
END

If I try for example 'Markt' instead of [value] where I know that there is a
street Markt the expression is still not correct. I tried to use the feature
but this failed as well

FEATURE
	POINTS [shpmid]
      CLASS SELECTED
	TEXT "TEXTSTRING]
END

Is there anyone who can help me
Regards,

Peter




From peter.jacobs at vs42.nl  Sun Feb 13 22:58:30 2000
From: peter.jacobs at vs42.nl (Peter H.M. Jacobs)
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 07:58:30 +0100
Subject: problem with class expression
Message-ID: <NDBBKMPGELCFDJPOHAMEOELECAAA.peter.jacobs@vs42.nl>


Hello Stephen,

This is the case:
A user enters the name of a streetin a textbox. I query the street in the
following layer with an item/value itemquery and send the result back to
mapserv to create a map with the street in te center of the new map. Finally
I want to mark that street. I thought to do this with these two layers.

LAYER
   NAME QueryLayer18Text # Straatnamen doorlopende wegen
   TYPE ANNOTATION
   STATUS QUERYONLY
   DATA Layer18Text
   QUERYITEM "TEXTSTRING"
   QUERY
     TEMPLATE
"http://../?map=/sites/../delft.map&mode=browse&scale=3000&mapxy=[shpmid]&va
lue=[value]"
   END
END

LAYER
   NAME Layer18Text # Straatnamen doorlopende wegen
   TYPE ANNOTATION
   STATUS DEFAULT
   DATA Layer18Text
   MAXSCALE 12000
   LABELITEM "TEXTSTRING"
   LABELANGLEITEM "TEXT_ANGLE"
   LABELSIZEITEM "TEXT_SIZE"
   CLASSITEM "TEXTSTRING"
   CLASS
     NAME SELECTED
     EXPRESSION ([TEXTSTRING] eq [value])
     SYMBOL 0
     COLOR 0 0 0
     LABEL
        ANTIALIAS
        COLOR 0 0 0
        FONT arial
	  TYPE TRUETYPE
        SIZE 20
        POSITION UR
     END
   END
   CLASS
	NAME NOTSELECTED
	EXPRESSION /./ #the rest
   ...
   END
END

Regards,

Peter



From mapadm at polsl.gliwice.pl  Mon Feb 14 01:08:04 2000
From: mapadm at polsl.gliwice.pl (Grzegorz Myrda)
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 10:08:04 +0100
Subject: font without Unicode mapping
Message-ID: <200002140904.KAA07038@zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl>

I know it is not right forum, but is there anything I can do with the 
font which doesn't have Unicode mapping and it symbols don't 
show on the map ?
While in other Windows applications this font(s) works ok.

Grzegorz


From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Mon Feb 14 05:58:42 2000
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 07:58:42 -0600
Subject: font without Unicode mapping
Message-ID: <s8a7b5c2.054@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>

Which version you using? The character mapping is handled via the gdtf library. That lib is now seemingly maintained by the GD folks. 3.2 was my own unicode stuff which was really limited, 3.3 supports a couple of other mappings based on the GD version. I haven't gone through and reconsiled
the versions in a while so maybe there is new code
on the GD side. So try this:

 - try newest MapServer
 - try a test with newest GD

If it seems to be supported with the latest GD let me know and I'll fix things. If not, then you'd have to write the code for the mapping. See the gdtf/gdttf.c for details.

Steve

<<< "Grzegorz Myrda" <mapadm at polsl.gliwice.pl>  2/14  3:07a >>>
I know it is not right forum, but is there anything I can do with the 
font which doesn't have Unicode mapping and it symbols don't 
show on the map ?
While in other Windows applications this font(s) works ok.

Grzegorz



From rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu  Mon Feb 14 06:26:25 2000
From: rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu (Robert Chavez)
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 09:26:25 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Yet another mapserver site
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002140921230.12426-100000@tantalos.perseus.tufts.edu>


More examples...

I've got a site going that uses mapscript.  It's an atlas of the the
ancient Greek and Roman world that I've been working on for our project
web site.  

psyche.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/patlas16.pl

I'd be happy to share the perl code with anyone who is interested.

One warning, we are (slowly) moving to a better server and I expect
transfer the atlas to the new iron within 2 - 4 weeks.  This link may not
work after that time.  I'll supply a more permanet URL when the move is
complete.

Rob Chavez
Perseus Project



From mapadm at polsl.gliwice.pl  Mon Feb 14 06:35:06 2000
From: mapadm at polsl.gliwice.pl (Grzegorz Myrda)
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 15:35:06 +0100
Subject: font without Unicode mapping
In-Reply-To: <s8a7b5c2.054@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>
Message-ID: <200002141432.PAA00976@zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl>

I still use 3.2. 
I'll try with last 3.3 and GD...
Thanks,

Grzegorz


From:           	"Stephen Lime" <steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us>
> Which version you using? The character mapping is handled via the gdtf library. That lib is now seemingly maintained by the GD folks. 3.2 was my own unicode stuff which was really limited, 3.3 supports a couple of other mappings based on the GD version. I haven't gone through and reconsiled
> the versions in a while so maybe there is new code
> on the GD side. So try this:
> 
>  - try newest MapServer
>  - try a test with newest GD
> 
> If it seems to be supported with the latest GD let me know and I'll fix things. If not, then you'd have to write the code for the mapping. See the gdtf/gdttf.c for details.
> 
> Steve
> 
> <<< "Grzegorz Myrda" <mapadm at polsl.gliwice.pl>  2/14  3:07a >>>
> I know it is not right forum, but is there anything I can do with the 
> font which doesn't have Unicode mapping and it symbols don't 
> show on the map ?
> While in other Windows applications this font(s) works ok.
> 
> Grzegorz
> 




From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Mon Feb 14 19:14:06 2000
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 21:14:06 -0600
Subject: Fwd: Use of created GIF as Lines, Points and Fill
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From teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu  Tue Feb 15 08:26:11 2000
From: teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu (Thomas E. Burk)
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 10:26:11 -0600 (CST)
Subject: archives
Message-ID: <200002151626.KAA24342@mallit.fr.umn.edu>

There is a new interface to the mailing list archives at 
<http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wilma/mapserver-users>. It is also linked 
from the MapServer Support page. 

There are still a couple issues to rresolve but we thought it best to make the search capability available now.

Tom
=======================
Dr. Thomas E. Burk
University of Minnesota
1530 Cleveland Avenue North
St. Paul, MN 55108
612-624-6741
612-625-5212 (FAX)
tburk at forestry.umn.edu


From rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu  Wed Feb 16 14:18:28 2000
From: rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu (Robert Chavez)
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:18:28 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Tif an wld file problems
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002161638240.8525-100000@tantalos.perseus.tufts.edu>

Greetings,

I started fooling around with displaying tifs using mapscript and I'm
having a problem rendering a tif image layer.  I've run the demo package
and displayed the landsat tif with mapserver just fine, so I know
mapserver/script compiled with the tif libraries.

The tif originally had a .tfw  file so I changed the extension to
.wld (it looks like this, units are in meters)

1.32301253030703
0.00000000000000
0.00000000000000
-1.16784976858186
531694.70377556235000
181396.49239035073000

After the script runs I get a blank .gif file as a result, no rendering of
the tif in site.  This leads me to believe there's an extent problem
somewhere but I'm not sure where.  The image should fit within the extents
of the map file (see map file below), I should be getting something even
if at a very small scale. I thought .tfw files were structurally identical
with .wld files, or have I missed something?

MAP
  NAME test
  SIZE 500 500
  EXTENT 520118.780 175873.500 534426.880 184948.500
  UNITS METERS
  SHAPEPATH "data"

  LAYER
    NAME stpauls
    TYPE RASTER
    STATUS ON
    DATA stpauls.tif
  END
END

Regards,

Robert Chavez
Perseus Project
rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu



From ddnebert at usgs.gov  Wed Feb 16 14:47:38 2000
From: ddnebert at usgs.gov (Doug Nebert)
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:47:38 -0500
Subject: Tif an wld file problems
References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002161638240.8525-100000@tantalos.perseus.tufts.edu>
Message-ID: <38AB290A.88A36849@usgs.gov>

It is possible that you have a 24-bit TIFF file.  It will only 
render if it is 8-bit, or so I experienced a few months back.
Try again by saving the TIF as 8-bit and see what happens.

Doug.

Robert Chavez wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I started fooling around with displaying tifs using mapscript and I'm
> having a problem rendering a tif image layer.  I've run the demo package
> and displayed the landsat tif with mapserver just fine, so I know
> mapserver/script compiled with the tif libraries.
> 
> The tif originally had a .tfw  file so I changed the extension to
> .wld (it looks like this, units are in meters)
> 
> 1.32301253030703
> 0.00000000000000
> 0.00000000000000
> -1.16784976858186
> 531694.70377556235000
> 181396.49239035073000
> 
> After the script runs I get a blank .gif file as a result, no rendering of
> the tif in site.  This leads me to believe there's an extent problem
> somewhere but I'm not sure where.  The image should fit within the extents
> of the map file (see map file below), I should be getting something even
> if at a very small scale. I thought .tfw files were structurally identical
> with .wld files, or have I missed something?
> 
> MAP
>   NAME test
>   SIZE 500 500
>   EXTENT 520118.780 175873.500 534426.880 184948.500
>   UNITS METERS
>   SHAPEPATH "data"
> 
>   LAYER
>     NAME stpauls
>     TYPE RASTER
>     STATUS ON
>     DATA stpauls.tif
>   END
> END
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Robert Chavez
> Perseus Project
> rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu

-- 
Douglas D. Nebert
Clearinghouse Coordinator 
FGDC Secretariat	Phone: +1 703 648 4151	Fax: +1 703 648-5755	
Pager Messaging: 	http://fgdclearhs.er.usgs.gov/dougmsg.html


From Robin.Ellis at dnr.qld.gov.au  Wed Feb 16 15:42:40 2000
From: Robin.Ellis at dnr.qld.gov.au (Ellis Robin (Bundaberg))
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:42:40 +1000
Subject: map files
Message-ID: <C10DC4222C68D311B7E50008C79F8B1214D2D6@enterprise.dnr.qld.gov.au>

Can somebody please post an example of a map file for 3.3 that demonstrates
the use of different line symbols for different layers and perhaps different
symbols for annotatio layers?

Thanks.

Rob

Robin Ellis
Land Resources Officer
Department of Natural Resources
Burnett District
ph: 07 4153 7843
fax: 07 4153 7823
Robin.Ellis at dnr.qld.gov.au


From rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu  Thu Feb 17 04:43:05 2000
From: rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu (Robert Chavez)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 07:43:05 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Tif an wld file problems
In-Reply-To: <38AB290A.88A36849@usgs.gov>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002170741200.18461-100000@tantalos.perseus.tufts.edu>


That was the problem. I saved it as an uncompressed 8-bit and it works jut
fine.  Thanks for the tip!

Rob

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Doug Nebert wrote:

> It is possible that you have a 24-bit TIFF file.  It will only 
> render if it is 8-bit, or so I experienced a few months back.
> Try again by saving the TIF as 8-bit and see what happens.
> 
> Doug.
> 
> Robert Chavez wrote:
> > 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I started fooling around with displaying tifs using mapscript and I'm
> > having a problem rendering a tif image layer.  I've run the demo package
> > and displayed the landsat tif with mapserver just fine, so I know
> > mapserver/script compiled with the tif libraries.
> > 
> > The tif originally had a .tfw  file so I changed the extension to
> > .wld (it looks like this, units are in meters)
> > 
> > 1.32301253030703
> > 0.00000000000000
> > 0.00000000000000
> > -1.16784976858186
> > 531694.70377556235000
> > 181396.49239035073000
> > 
> > After the script runs I get a blank .gif file as a result, no rendering of
> > the tif in site.  This leads me to believe there's an extent problem
> > somewhere but I'm not sure where.  The image should fit within the extents
> > of the map file (see map file below), I should be getting something even
> > if at a very small scale. I thought .tfw files were structurally identical
> > with .wld files, or have I missed something?
> > 
> > MAP
> >   NAME test
> >   SIZE 500 500
> >   EXTENT 520118.780 175873.500 534426.880 184948.500
> >   UNITS METERS
> >   SHAPEPATH "data"
> > 
> >   LAYER
> >     NAME stpauls
> >     TYPE RASTER
> >     STATUS ON
> >     DATA stpauls.tif
> >   END
> > END
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Robert Chavez
> > Perseus Project
> > rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu
> 
> -- 
> Douglas D. Nebert
> Clearinghouse Coordinator 
> FGDC Secretariat	Phone: +1 703 648 4151	Fax: +1 703 648-5755	
> Pager Messaging: 	http://fgdclearhs.er.usgs.gov/dougmsg.html
> 



From ddnebert at usgs.gov  Thu Feb 17 06:02:34 2000
From: ddnebert at usgs.gov (Doug Nebert)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:02:34 -0500
Subject: Tif an wld file problems
References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002170741200.18461-100000@tantalos.perseus.tufts.edu>
Message-ID: <38ABFF7A.D7F440AA@usgs.gov>

You can even save it as an LZW compressed TIFF (if you have 
licensed software) and it will work fine, too.  I have a 56MB 
TIFF I am working with and after compression it is 8MB with 
no noticeable performance hit. The TIFF indexing seems very 
efficient in the mapserv.

Doug.

Robert Chavez wrote:
> 
> That was the problem. I saved it as an uncompressed 8-bit and it works jut
> fine.  Thanks for the tip!
> 
> Rob
> 
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Doug Nebert wrote:
> 
> > It is possible that you have a 24-bit TIFF file.  It will only
> > render if it is 8-bit, or so I experienced a few months back.
> > Try again by saving the TIF as 8-bit and see what happens.
> >
> > Doug.
> >
> > Robert Chavez wrote:
> > >
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > I started fooling around with displaying tifs using mapscript and I'm
> > > having a problem rendering a tif image layer.  I've run the demo package
> > > and displayed the landsat tif with mapserver just fine, so I know
> > > mapserver/script compiled with the tif libraries.
> > >
> > > The tif originally had a .tfw  file so I changed the extension to
> > > .wld (it looks like this, units are in meters)
> > >
> > > 1.32301253030703
> > > 0.00000000000000
> > > 0.00000000000000
> > > -1.16784976858186
> > > 531694.70377556235000
> > > 181396.49239035073000
> > >
> > > After the script runs I get a blank .gif file as a result, no rendering of
> > > the tif in site.  This leads me to believe there's an extent problem
> > > somewhere but I'm not sure where.  The image should fit within the extents
> > > of the map file (see map file below), I should be getting something even
> > > if at a very small scale. I thought .tfw files were structurally identical
> > > with .wld files, or have I missed something?
> > >
> > > MAP
> > >   NAME test
> > >   SIZE 500 500
> > >   EXTENT 520118.780 175873.500 534426.880 184948.500
> > >   UNITS METERS
> > >   SHAPEPATH "data"
> > >
> > >   LAYER
> > >     NAME stpauls
> > >     TYPE RASTER
> > >     STATUS ON
> > >     DATA stpauls.tif
> > >   END
> > > END
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Robert Chavez
> > > Perseus Project
> > > rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu
> >
> > --
> > Douglas D. Nebert
> > Clearinghouse Coordinator
> > FGDC Secretariat      Phone: +1 703 648 4151  Fax: +1 703 648-5755
> > Pager Messaging:      http://fgdclearhs.er.usgs.gov/dougmsg.html
> >

-- 
Douglas D. Nebert
Clearinghouse Coordinator 
FGDC Secretariat	Phone: +1 703 648 4151	Fax: +1 703 648-5755	
Pager Messaging: 	http://fgdclearhs.er.usgs.gov/dougmsg.html


From rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu  Thu Feb 17 06:12:36 2000
From: rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu (Robert Chavez)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:12:36 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Tif an wld file problems
In-Reply-To: <38ABFF7A.D7F440AA@usgs.gov>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002170906050.18461-100000@tantalos.perseus.tufts.edu>


I tried saving with LZW compression using PaintShop Pro but got the same
result as before. It would be nice as my TIFFs are between 100 and 300MB.
I'll give it another try.

Rob

On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Doug Nebert wrote:

> You can even save it as an LZW compressed TIFF (if you have 
> licensed software) and it will work fine, too.  I have a 56MB 
> TIFF I am working with and after compression it is 8MB with 
> no noticeable performance hit. The TIFF indexing seems very 
> efficient in the mapserv.
> 
> Doug.
> 
> Robert Chavez wrote:
> > 
> > That was the problem. I saved it as an uncompressed 8-bit and it works jut
> > fine.  Thanks for the tip!
> > 
> > Rob
> > 
> > On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Doug Nebert wrote:
> > 
> > > It is possible that you have a 24-bit TIFF file.  It will only
> > > render if it is 8-bit, or so I experienced a few months back.
> > > Try again by saving the TIF as 8-bit and see what happens.
> > >
> > > Doug.
> > >
> > > Robert Chavez wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Greetings,
> > > >
> > > > I started fooling around with displaying tifs using mapscript and I'm
> > > > having a problem rendering a tif image layer.  I've run the demo package
> > > > and displayed the landsat tif with mapserver just fine, so I know
> > > > mapserver/script compiled with the tif libraries.
> > > >
> > > > The tif originally had a .tfw  file so I changed the extension to
> > > > .wld (it looks like this, units are in meters)
> > > >
> > > > 1.32301253030703
> > > > 0.00000000000000
> > > > 0.00000000000000
> > > > -1.16784976858186
> > > > 531694.70377556235000
> > > > 181396.49239035073000
> > > >
> > > > After the script runs I get a blank .gif file as a result, no rendering of
> > > > the tif in site.  This leads me to believe there's an extent problem
> > > > somewhere but I'm not sure where.  The image should fit within the extents
> > > > of the map file (see map file below), I should be getting something even
> > > > if at a very small scale. I thought .tfw files were structurally identical
> > > > with .wld files, or have I missed something?
> > > >
> > > > MAP
> > > >   NAME test
> > > >   SIZE 500 500
> > > >   EXTENT 520118.780 175873.500 534426.880 184948.500
> > > >   UNITS METERS
> > > >   SHAPEPATH "data"
> > > >
> > > >   LAYER
> > > >     NAME stpauls
> > > >     TYPE RASTER
> > > >     STATUS ON
> > > >     DATA stpauls.tif
> > > >   END
> > > > END
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Robert Chavez
> > > > Perseus Project
> > > > rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu
> > >
> > > --
> > > Douglas D. Nebert
> > > Clearinghouse Coordinator
> > > FGDC Secretariat      Phone: +1 703 648 4151  Fax: +1 703 648-5755
> > > Pager Messaging:      http://fgdclearhs.er.usgs.gov/dougmsg.html
> > >
> 
> -- 
> Douglas D. Nebert
> Clearinghouse Coordinator 
> FGDC Secretariat	Phone: +1 703 648 4151	Fax: +1 703 648-5755	
> Pager Messaging: 	http://fgdclearhs.er.usgs.gov/dougmsg.html
> 



From Banister at BANISTER.COM  Thu Feb 17 07:23:48 2000
From: Banister at BANISTER.COM (Trevor Banister)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 08:23:48 -0700
Subject: Tif an wld file problems
Message-ID: <51BFCC79A3CCD311A2DD0800362C8E031726@banister4.conen.net>

Pack-Bits tiffs (i.e. DRGs) seem to work fine too if you want medium
compression without LZW patent issues.

Trevor Banister
President
Banister Consulting and Online Services
Banister at Banister.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Chavez [mailto:rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 7:13 AM
To: Doug Nebert
Cc: Mapserver Users
Subject: Re: Tif an wld file problems



I tried saving with LZW compression using PaintShop Pro but got the same
result as before. It would be nice as my TIFFs are between 100 and 300MB.
I'll give it another try.

Rob

On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Doug Nebert wrote:

> You can even save it as an LZW compressed TIFF (if you have 
> licensed software) and it will work fine, too.  I have a 56MB 
> TIFF I am working with and after compression it is 8MB with 
> no noticeable performance hit. The TIFF indexing seems very 
> efficient in the mapserv.
> 
> Doug.
> 
> Robert Chavez wrote:
> > 
> > That was the problem. I saved it as an uncompressed 8-bit and it works
jut
> > fine.  Thanks for the tip!
> > 
> > Rob
> > 
> > On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Doug Nebert wrote:
> > 
> > > It is possible that you have a 24-bit TIFF file.  It will only
> > > render if it is 8-bit, or so I experienced a few months back.
> > > Try again by saving the TIF as 8-bit and see what happens.
> > >
> > > Doug.
> > >
> > > Robert Chavez wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Greetings,
> > > >
> > > > I started fooling around with displaying tifs using mapscript and
I'm
> > > > having a problem rendering a tif image layer.  I've run the demo
package
> > > > and displayed the landsat tif with mapserver just fine, so I know
> > > > mapserver/script compiled with the tif libraries.
> > > >
> > > > The tif originally had a .tfw  file so I changed the extension to
> > > > .wld (it looks like this, units are in meters)
> > > >
> > > > 1.32301253030703
> > > > 0.00000000000000
> > > > 0.00000000000000
> > > > -1.16784976858186
> > > > 531694.70377556235000
> > > > 181396.49239035073000
> > > >
> > > > After the script runs I get a blank .gif file as a result, no
rendering of
> > > > the tif in site.  This leads me to believe there's an extent problem
> > > > somewhere but I'm not sure where.  The image should fit within the
extents
> > > > of the map file (see map file below), I should be getting something
even
> > > > if at a very small scale. I thought .tfw files were structurally
identical
> > > > with .wld files, or have I missed something?
> > > >
> > > > MAP
> > > >   NAME test
> > > >   SIZE 500 500
> > > >   EXTENT 520118.780 175873.500 534426.880 184948.500
> > > >   UNITS METERS
> > > >   SHAPEPATH "data"
> > > >
> > > >   LAYER
> > > >     NAME stpauls
> > > >     TYPE RASTER
> > > >     STATUS ON
> > > >     DATA stpauls.tif
> > > >   END
> > > > END
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Robert Chavez
> > > > Perseus Project
> > > > rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu
> > >
> > > --
> > > Douglas D. Nebert
> > > Clearinghouse Coordinator
> > > FGDC Secretariat      Phone: +1 703 648 4151  Fax: +1 703 648-5755
> > > Pager Messaging:      http://fgdclearhs.er.usgs.gov/dougmsg.html
> > >
> 
> -- 
> Douglas D. Nebert
> Clearinghouse Coordinator 
> FGDC Secretariat	Phone: +1 703 648 4151	Fax: +1 703 648-5755	
> Pager Messaging: 	http://fgdclearhs.er.usgs.gov/dougmsg.html
> 


From erich at museum.state.il.us  Thu Feb 17 03:20:35 2000
From: erich at museum.state.il.us (Erich Schroeder)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 11:20:35 +0000 (/etc/localtime)
Subject: AML for initial mapfile creation
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002171109110.16802-100000@demeter>

Hi,
  I've hacked together a rough AML that will produce an initial mapfile
based on a series of coverages given by the user. It also converts the
arcinfo coverages to shapefiles and does very rough html init and template
files.

  I didn't see any references to routines like this in the archives, so I
went ahead. Partially, I just wanted to have something to offer before I
asked for help (see my next message).

The aml is available at:

http://museum.state.il.us/research/GISlab/mkmapserver.aml

There's lots to do with this, assuming that it has any use at all. Oh yes,
I've only run it on ARC Version 7.2.1 Patch 1 on solaris, and Mapserver
3.3.007 on SUSE 6.1 linux, and only two testings so far at that...

Erich

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Curator, Information Technologies  FAX:   (217)785-2857
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From peter.jacobs at vs42.nl  Thu Feb 17 09:38:29 2000
From: peter.jacobs at vs42.nl (Peter H.M. Jacobs)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:38:29 +0100
Subject: converting/ making shapefiles
Message-ID: <NDBBKMPGELCFDJPOHAMEGEMCCAAA.peter.jacobs@vs42.nl>

Hello,

has anyone heard of a tool to convert shapefiles into comma separated value
files and visa versa

Regards

Peter Jacobs



From bowenj at peligroso.gaiaenv.com  Thu Feb 17 09:57:16 2000
From: bowenj at peligroso.gaiaenv.com (Jim T. Bowen (GAIA Consultants Inc.))
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 10:57:16 -0700
Subject: converting/ making shapefiles
References: <NDBBKMPGELCFDJPOHAMEGEMCCAAA.peter.jacobs@vs42.nl>
Message-ID: <38AC367C.BF5AF364@gaiaenv.com>

Peter,

If you have ArcView, ArcView can read CSV files as event themes
(points).  You can then 'Convert to shapefile' inside ArcView. 
Obviously if you have a lot of these, a little avenue script would be of
use.  Going from Shape to CSV can be done with a little script as
well.   Grab the XY locations and write them to a csv.

Since the shapefile format is available, you might be better off writing
some C or VB or ?? to achieve what you are after.  Perhaps someone has
already done this?

Lines and polys become more complex and would require more coding. 
Although, you could easily read in the vertices as points (event theme)
and then write a small script to convert to a line.  A standard CSV
would not work well for polys; indeed, you may want to explore another
text format (e.g., generate files or E00 format).


Cheers,
Jim

"Peter H.M. Jacobs" wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> has anyone heard of a tool to convert shapefiles into comma separated value
> files and visa versa
> 
> Regards
> 
> Peter Jacobs


From marin at here.is  Thu Feb 17 09:53:03 2000
From: marin at here.is (Ma)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:53:03 +0000
Subject: converting/ making shapefiles
References: <NDBBKMPGELCFDJPOHAMEGEMCCAAA.peter.jacobs@vs42.nl>
Message-ID: <38AC357F.665E4F8D@here.is>

You can try FShape at http://www.jshape.com

--
Ma


"Peter H.M. Jacobs" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> has anyone heard of a tool to convert shapefiles into comma separated value
> files and visa versa
>
> Regards
>
> Peter Jacobs





From erich at museum.state.il.us  Thu Feb 17 03:51:46 2000
From: erich at museum.state.il.us (Erich Schroeder)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 11:51:46 +0000 (/etc/localtime)
Subject: A couple of newbie questions
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002171127050.16802-100000@demeter>

Hi,
  Last weekend I finally got my own Mapserver application to work, at
least to allow zooming and panning. I'm confused on quering and other
things, still.

First:
One of my layers (areas where archaeological surveys have been done) has
internal polygons which are actually unsurveyed. Within the dbf file the
value of SURVEY_ID for these is 0, all "real" polygons have a numeric code
relating to a document number describing the survey.

Could someone show me a mapfile snippet that will only display polygons
with SURVEY_ID > 0?

One of the other layers is the locations of reported archaeological sites,
digitized as polygons. My users will want to be able to click on a site
and get the information associated. The information is in a separate dbf
file that can be linked to the coverage by a index number. 

What is the combination of mapfile information and html code that will
make it possible for a user to click on a polygon, and get a listing of
the associated record?

I hope these are simple...

Erich

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From jwagner at usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE  Thu Feb 17 09:56:59 2000
From: jwagner at usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (Jan-Oliver Wagner)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:56:59 +0100
Subject: converting/ making shapefiles
In-Reply-To: <NDBBKMPGELCFDJPOHAMEGEMCCAAA.peter.jacobs@vs42.nl>; from peter.jacobs@vs42.nl on Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 06:38:29PM +0100
References: <NDBBKMPGELCFDJPOHAMEGEMCCAAA.peter.jacobs@vs42.nl>
Message-ID: <20000217185659.A18378@cheops.usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE>

On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 06:38:29PM +0100, Peter H.M. Jacobs wrote:
> has anyone heard of a tool to convert shapefiles into comma separated value
> files and visa versa

As imple solution is gen2shp, http://www.usf.uos.de/~jwagner/gen2shp/gen2shp.html
and for other (bigger) tools see http://freegis.org

Cheers

	Jan

-- 
Jan-Oliver Wagner				http://intevation.de/~jan/

Intevation GmbH				  	     http://intevation.de/
Institute of Environmental Systems Research	    http://www.usf.uos.de/


From kenboss at dilbert.dnr.state.mn.us  Thu Feb 17 10:05:25 2000
From: kenboss at dilbert.dnr.state.mn.us (kenboss)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 12:05:25 -0600 (CST)
Subject: converting/ making shapefiles
Message-ID: <200002171805.MAA07433@philbert.dnr.state.mn.us>

There is readily available C code just waiting to be hacked to suit your 
purposes in your mapserver distribution.  Have a look in the "shapelib" 
subdirectory - shpdump.c and dbfdump.c can be used together to go from shape to 
CSV, while shpcreate.c and dbfcreate.c can be employed in the other direction.

--Ken

> Peter,

> 
> Since the shapefile format is available, you might be better off writing
> some C or VB or ?? to achieve what you are after.  Perhaps someone has
> already done this?
> 

> 
> Cheers,
> Jim
> 
> "Peter H.M. Jacobs" wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > has anyone heard of a tool to convert shapefiles into comma separated value
> > files and visa versa
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Peter Jacobs



From kenboss at dilbert.dnr.state.mn.us  Thu Feb 17 11:59:40 2000
From: kenboss at dilbert.dnr.state.mn.us (kenboss)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 13:59:40 -0600 (CST)
Subject: A couple of newbie questions
Message-ID: <200002171959.NAA08038@philbert.dnr.state.mn.us>

Erich--

Of course, in your mapfile you've got a web template definition with at least 
this much defined:

WEB
  TEMPLATE surveys.html
END

Your surveys.html file drives your current pan/zoom interface through an html 
form.  In the simplest case, you need a button on the form that allows the user 
to specify whether they're just moving around on the map or trying to query a 
feature.  The variable the button controls is "mode".  When they're navigating 
the map, mode is set to "browse" (the default mode), and when they're querying 
features, mode is set to "query".  

The rest is handled in your map file.  To display and query both surveyed areas 
and the "holes" inside of them, you might have a layer like this in your 
mapfile:

LAYER
  NAME sites
  STATUS default
  DATA /data/archaeology/sites
  TYPE polygon
  CLASSITEM "survey_id"
  CLASS
    NAME "Real Survey Sites"
    EXPRESSION ([survey_id] > 0)
    SYMBOL 1
    COLOR 32 201 32
  END
  CLASS
    NAME "Doughnut Holes"
    EXPRESSION "0"
    SYMBOL 2
    COLOR 201 32 32
  END
  QUERYITEM "survey_id"
  QUERY
    EXPRESSION ([survey_id] > 0)
    template survey_detail.html
  END
  QUERY
    EXPRESSION "0"
    template not_surveyed.html
  END
END # Layer 


To display and query only surveyed areas, just remove a few lines from the above 
layer so that you end up with this:

LAYER
  NAME sites
  STATUS default
  DATA /data/archaeology/sites
  TYPE polygon
  CLASS
    NAME "Real Survey Sites"
    EXPRESSION ([survey_id] > 0)
    SYMBOL 1
    COLOR 32 201 32
  END
  QUERY
    EXPRESSION ([survey_id] > 0)
    template survey_detail.html
  END
END # Layer 


Note that I am a mapserver 3.2 user, and the expressions above are based on my 
reading of the online docs, not personal experience.  In the "old way of doing 
things", I would've used a regular expression like:

EXPRESSION "^[1-9]$|^[1-9][0-9]$"

to mean "any number from 1 to 99".  This is still a valid way to do things if 
you choose.

Your query template files will be full of regular html, except for where you 
need to swap in attributes from the shape that the user clicked on, where you'll 
have [THIS_ATTRIBUTE_NAME] and [THAT_ATTRIBUTE_NAME].

Hope this at least helps to get you started...

--Ken


> Hi,
>   Last weekend I finally got my own Mapserver application to work, at
> least to allow zooming and panning. I'm confused on quering and other
> things, still.
> 
> First:
> One of my layers (areas where archaeological surveys have been done) has
> internal polygons which are actually unsurveyed. Within the dbf file the
> value of SURVEY_ID for these is 0, all "real" polygons have a numeric code
> relating to a document number describing the survey.
> 
> Could someone show me a mapfile snippet that will only display polygons
> with SURVEY_ID > 0?
> 
> One of the other layers is the locations of reported archaeological sites,
> digitized as polygons. My users will want to be able to click on a site
> and get the information associated. The information is in a separate dbf
> file that can be linked to the coverage by a index number. 
> 
> What is the combination of mapfile information and html code that will
> make it possible for a user to click on a polygon, and get a listing of
> the associated record?
> 
> I hope these are simple...
> 
> Erich
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Erich Schroeder                    Phone: (217)785-0033
> Curator, Information Technologies  FAX:   (217)785-2857
> Illinois State Museum GIS Lab      Internet: erich at museum.state.il.us
> http://www.museum.state.il.us/ismdepts/anthro/staff/erich/erich.html
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 



From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Thu Feb 17 16:58:57 2000
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:58:57 -0600
Subject: Tif an wld file problems
Message-ID: <s8ac44fe.076@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>

LZW is supported, so is packbits. Paintshop Pro must write ugly tiffs. There is a tiffinfo program that is part of libtiff that is real usefull for checking tiff type. I'd use ImageMagick for just about any image manipulation.

Steve

<<< Robert Chavez <rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu>  2/17  8:12a >>>

I tried saving with LZW compression using PaintShop Pro but got the same
result as before. It would be nice as my TIFFs are between 100 and 300MB.
I'll give it another try.

Rob

On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Doug Nebert wrote:

> You can even save it as an LZW compressed TIFF (if you have 
> licensed software) and it will work fine, too.  I have a 56MB 
> TIFF I am working with and after compression it is 8MB with 
> no noticeable performance hit. The TIFF indexing seems very 
> efficient in the mapserv.
> 
> Doug.
> 
> Robert Chavez wrote:
> > 
> > That was the problem. I saved it as an uncompressed 8-bit and it works jut
> > fine.  Thanks for the tip!
> > 
> > Rob
> > 
> > On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Doug Nebert wrote:
> > 
> > > It is possible that you have a 24-bit TIFF file.  It will only
> > > render if it is 8-bit, or so I experienced a few months back.
> > > Try again by saving the TIF as 8-bit and see what happens.
> > >
> > > Doug.
> > >
> > > Robert Chavez wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Greetings,
> > > >
> > > > I started fooling around with displaying tifs using mapscript and I'm
> > > > having a problem rendering a tif image layer.  I've run the demo package
> > > > and displayed the landsat tif with mapserver just fine, so I know
> > > > mapserver/script compiled with the tif libraries.
> > > >
> > > > The tif originally had a .tfw  file so I changed the extension to
> > > > .wld (it looks like this, units are in meters)
> > > >
> > > > 1.32301253030703
> > > > 0.00000000000000
> > > > 0.00000000000000
> > > > -1.16784976858186
> > > > 531694.70377556235000
> > > > 181396.49239035073000
> > > >
> > > > After the script runs I get a blank .gif file as a result, no rendering of
> > > > the tif in site.  This leads me to believe there's an extent problem
> > > > somewhere but I'm not sure where.  The image should fit within the extents
> > > > of the map file (see map file below), I should be getting something even
> > > > if at a very small scale. I thought .tfw files were structurally identical
> > > > with .wld files, or have I missed something?
> > > >
> > > > MAP
> > > >   NAME test
> > > >   SIZE 500 500
> > > >   EXTENT 520118.780 175873.500 534426.880 184948.500
> > > >   UNITS METERS
> > > >   SHAPEPATH "data"
> > > >
> > > >   LAYER
> > > >     NAME stpauls
> > > >     TYPE RASTER
> > > >     STATUS ON
> > > >     DATA stpauls.tif
> > > >   END
> > > > END
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Robert Chavez
> > > > Perseus Project
> > > > rchavez at perseus.tufts.edu
> > >
> > > --
> > > Douglas D. Nebert
> > > Clearinghouse Coordinator
> > > FGDC Secretariat      Phone: +1 703 648 4151  Fax: +1 703 648-5755
> > > Pager Messaging:      http://fgdclearhs.er.usgs.gov/dougmsg.html
> > >
> 
> -- 
> Douglas D. Nebert
> Clearinghouse Coordinator 
> FGDC Secretariat	Phone: +1 703 648 4151	Fax: +1 703 648-5755	
> Pager Messaging: 	http://fgdclearhs.er.usgs.gov/dougmsg.html
> 




From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Thu Feb 17 17:01:43 2000
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:01:43 -0600
Subject: converting/ making shapefiles
Message-ID: <s8ac4599.079@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>

Use mapscript. With it you can read/write just about anything. Use the perl xbase modules for .dbf file access. Works great.

Steve

<<< "Peter H.M. Jacobs" <peter.jacobs at vs42.nl>  2/17 11:35a >>>
Hello,

has anyone heard of a tool to convert shapefiles into comma separated value
files and visa versa

Regards

Peter Jacobs




From sl57k at cc.usu.edu  Thu Feb 17 17:19:41 2000
From: sl57k at cc.usu.edu (Jason Maestri)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:19:41 -0700
Subject: map files
References: <C10DC4222C68D311B7E50008C79F8B1214D4CF@enterprise.dnr.qld.gov.au>
Message-ID: <38AC9E2C.DA2E5F80@cc.usu.edu>

Rob,
    Using gif files as icons  for point layers is very simple.  I will go over
it in a little detail, because there are some concerns which, if you know about
them upfront, will make things a lot easier.  For this reason, I am also posting
this back up to the mapserver-users list so that it'll be in the archive...

Okay, so here goes:

    1.)  The marker.sym file:
            o Entires must be in the form:
                Symbol
                    Type PIXMAP
                    Image /var/www/eastCanyon_data/icons/camera.gif
                END
             (Notice that quotation marks are not nesecary for the path.)

           o The path of your icons does _not_ need to be below the www root, as
it is
                here, but you may choose to put it there...
    2.) GIF files (like the one that mapserver creates) have only 256 palette
entries.
            o This means that there can only be 256 discrete colors in your gif
file.  Any
                colors used exclusively in your marker gif should be kept to a
minimum, as
                those colors have a low priority when generating the final
image, and may not
                come out looking the way you had planned.  (Correct me if I am
wrong,
                Steve, but if there aren't enough colors left in the palette,
mapserver will
                use the closest ones already existing in the palette to draw
your marker
                image, which in some cases, is not very close...).

    3.) Mapserver allows for transparencies in marker images.  We had to do 2
things to
        flag a color transparent in our gifs.  (Probably didn't need to be this
dificult, but I
        guess it doesn't hurt to be thorough):
            o Choose a color from the palette that is not used.  Make this color
the first
                entry in the palette.  (This will become the color that will be
transparent.)
            o When saving your image (or at other appropriate time) flag that
color as the
                transparent one.  Our software, when doing this, would flag our
image as a
                GIF-89 (or whatever the designation for a transparent gif is),
but not move the
                appropriate color to the 1st place in the palette.  That is why
we were doing it
                manualy in the previous step.

    4.) Remember: Keep your colors to a minumum!

    5.) Sit back, and pray that it worked, the first time.


Well, there you have it.  My dissertation on using gifs as point markers in a
map file.  I hope this doesn't confuse or overwhelm you (or bore you :-)  ) more
than it helps you, these are just some things that took some playing with at
first, so I thought I'd pass them on to you.  Hope it helps!


Good luck,
    Jason

"Ellis Robin (Bundaberg)" wrote:

> Thanks Jason. I worked out my line problems yesterday. I'd be keen to see
> the process of using GIFs as symbols for your point layers. I do recall an
> email about once previously, but perhaps your guidance and/or examples would
> be more helpful.
>
> Rob.
>
> > ----------
> > From:         Jason Maestri[SMTP:sl57k at cc.usu.edu]
> > Sent:         Friday, 18 February 2000 7:39
> > To:   Ellis Robin (Bundaberg)
> > Subject:      Re: map files
> >
> >
> > Ellis,
> >     Yes, you do have to edit your .sym files.  I can send ours to you as
> > well if
> > you'd like them... They are pretty straightforward, however.
> >
> > --Jason
> >
> > "Ellis Robin (Bundaberg)" wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks. I assume that you then have to alter your line.sym and
> > marker.sym
> > > files?
> > >
> > > > ----------
> > > > From:         Jason Maestri[SMTP:sl57k at cc.usu.edu]
> > > > Sent:         Thursday, 17 February 2000 10:46
> > > > To:   Ellis Robin (Bundaberg)
> > > > Subject:      Re: map files
> > > >
> > > > Ellis,
> > > >     Okay, here is a copy of our mapfile.  It contains a couple of
> > examples
> > > > of
> > > > different layers and symbols.  The url to the map is:
> > > >
> > http://lhotse.cee.usu.edu/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=%2Fvar%2Fwww%2FeastCanyon%2F
> > > >
> > eastCanyon.map&layer=states&layer=counties&layer=wsboundary&layer=relief&l
> > > > ayer=streams&layer=pointsources&layer=photos&zoomsize=2&zoomdir=0
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Good luck...
> > > >
> > > > --Jason Maestri
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > #
> > > > #
> > > > # Start of map file
> > > > #
> > > > #
> > > > NAME DEMO
> > > > STATUS ON
> > > > SIZE 400 400
> > > > SHADESET symbols/shade.sym
> > > > MARKERSET symbols/marker.sym
> > > > LINESET symbols/line.sym
> > > > #EXTENT -508446.377270 4402355.715299 840927.894068 5751729.986637
> > > > #EXTENT 363212.232272 4429247.460481 531884.016189 4597919.244398
> > > > EXTENT 428353.254082 4494335.640256 470521.200062 4536503.586232
> > > > UNITS METERS
> > > > SHAPEPATH "/var/www/eastCanyon_data"
> > > > IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
> > > >
> > > > #LABELOVERLAP FALSE
> > > >
> > > > #
> > > > # Start of web interface definition
> > > > #
> > > > WEB
> > > >   HEADER eastCanyon_header.html
> > > >   TEMPLATE eastCanyon.html
> > > >   MINSCALE 10
> > > >   MAXSCALE 25500000
> > > > #  log /tmp/eastCanyon.log
> > > >
> > > > END
> > > >
> > > > #
> > > > # Start of reference map
> > > > #
> > > > REFERENCE
> > > >   IMAGE graphics/reference_base.gif
> > > >   EXTENT 377686.0 4492844.0 463131 4536363
> > > >   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 states
> > > >   TYPE POLYGON
> > > >   STATUS DEFAULT
> > > >   DATA states/states
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "States"
> > > >     SYMBOL 0
> > > >     OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
> > > >     COLOR 255 255 204
> > > >     #
> > > >     #Use 107 99 123 for the basin boundary
> > > >     #
> > > >   END
> > > > END
> > > >
> > > > LAYER
> > > >   NAME wsboundary
> > > >   TYPE POLYGON
> > > >   STATUS DEFAULT
> > > >   DATA wsboundary/basin
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Watershed Boundary"
> > > >     SYMBOL 0
> > > >     #COLOR -1 -1 -1
> > > >     OUTLINECOLOR 107 99 123
> > > >     COLOR 214 214 231
> > > >     #COLOR 207 199 223
> > > >   END
> > > > END
> > > >
> > > > LAYER
> > > >   NAME landusegif
> > > >   TYPE RASTER
> > > >   STATUS ON
> > > >   DATA landuse/landuse.gif
> > > >   OFFSITE 0
> > > > END
> > > >
> > > > LAYER
> > > >   NAME relief
> > > >   TYPE RASTER
> > > >   STATUS ON
> > > >   DATA relief/basin.gif
> > > >   OFFSITE 0
> > > > END
> > > >
> > > > LAYER
> > > >   NAME emptyLayer
> > > >   TYPE RASTER
> > > >   STATUS ON
> > > >   OFFSITE 0
> > > > END
> > > >
> > > > LAYER
> > > >   NAME quad
> > > >   TYPE RASTER
> > > >   STATUS ON
> > > >   DATA quads/pq1119.tif
> > > >   OFFSITE 0
> > > > END
> > > >
> > > > LAYER
> > > >   NAME landuse
> > > >   TYPE POLYGON
> > > >   STATUS ON
> > > >   DATA landuse/eclanduse
> > > >   #DATA landuse/basinslanduse
> > > >   TOLERANCE 5
> > > >
> > > >   CLASSITEM "LUCODE"
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Water"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "1"
> > > >     COLOR 49 49 185
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Spruce-Fir"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "2"
> > > >     COLOR 60 180 60
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Ponderosa Pine"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "3"
> > > >     COLOR 20 160 20
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Lodgepole"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "4"
> > > >     COLOR 49 200 10
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Mountain Fir"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "5"
> > > >     COLOR 49 180 185
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Juniper"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "6"
> > > >     COLOR 120 100 40
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Pinyon"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "7"
> > > >     COLOR 0 200 185
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Pinyon-Juniper"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "8"
> > > >     COLOR 120 120 120
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Mountain Mahogany"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "9"
> > > >     COLOR 128 250 130
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Aspen"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "10"
> > > >     COLOR 60 180 10
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Oak"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "11"
> > > >     COLOR 00 190 0
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Maple"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "12"
> > > >     COLOR 250 250 0
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Mountain Shrub"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "13"
> > > >     COLOR 0 199 145
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Sagebrush"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "14"
> > > >     COLOR 20 150 10
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Sagebrush/Perennial Grass"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "15"
> > > >     COLOR 60 255 45
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Grassland"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "16"
> > > >     COLOR 180 250 100
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Alpine"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "17"
> > > >     COLOR 20 160 250
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Dry Meadow"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "18"
> > > >     COLOR 200 200 35
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Wet Meadow"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "19"
> > > >     COLOR 20 199 100
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Barren"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "20"
> > > >     COLOR 200 200 200
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Lodgepole/Aspen"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "150 250 100"
> > > >     COLOR 49 49 185
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Ponderosa Pine/Mountain Shrub"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "22"
> > > >     COLOR 49 49 185
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Spruce-Fir/Mountain Shrub"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "23"
> > > >     COLOR 200 160 20
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Mountain Fir/Mountian Shrub"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "24"
> > > >     COLOR 250 160 0
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Aspen/Conifer"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "25"
> > > >     COLOR 250 250 9
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Mountain Riparian"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "26"
> > > >     COLOR 150 150 50
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Lowland Riparian"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "27"
> > > >     COLOR 49 49 185
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Agriculture"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "30"
> > > >     COLOR 0 255 0
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Urban"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "31"
> > > >     COLOR 50 50 50
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Salt Desert Scrub"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "32"
> > > >     COLOR 120 180 120
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Desert Grassland"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "33"
> > > >     COLOR 49 49 185
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Blackbrush"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "34"
> > > >     COLOR 49 49 185
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Creosote-Bursage"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "35"
> > > >     COLOR 49 49 185
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Greasewood"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "36"
> > > >     COLOR 49 49 185
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Pickleweed Barrens"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "37"
> > > >     COLOR 49 49 185
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Wetland"
> > > >     EXPRESSION "38"
> > > >     COLOR 49 49 185
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   QUERY
> > > >     TEMPLATE query_templates/landuse.html
> > > >   END
> > > > END # Layer
> > > >
> > > > LAYER
> > > >   NAME streams
> > > >   TYPE LINE
> > > >   STATUS DEFAULT
> > > >   #DATA reachfiles/rf3sub
> > > >   DATA reachfiles/basinsrf3
> > > >   TOLERANCE 5
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     SYMBOL 1
> > > >     SIZE 3
> > > >     NAME "Streams"
> > > >     COLOR 0 0 185
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > > #  QUERY
> > > > #    TEMPLATE query_templates/streams.html
> > > > #  END
> > > > END # Layer
> > > >
> > > > LAYER
> > > >   NAME pointsources
> > > >   TYPE POINT
> > > >   STATUS DEFAULT
> > > >   DATA pointsources/basinssources
> > > >   TOLERANCE 5
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     SYMBOL 2
> > > >     SIZE 6
> > > >     NAME "Pointsources"
> > > >     COLOR 254 0 0
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   QUERY
> > > >     TEMPLATE query_templates/pointsources.html
> > > >   END
> > > > END # Layer
> > > >
> > > > LAYER
> > > >   NAME photos
> > > >   TYPE POINT
> > > >   STATUS DEFAULT
> > > >   DATA media/photos/photos
> > > >   TOLERANCE 5
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     SYMBOL 1
> > > >     SIZE 8
> > > >     NAME "Photos"
> > > >     COLOR 254 0 254
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   QUERY
> > > >     TEMPLATE query_templates/photos.html
> > > >   END
> > > > END # Layer
> > > >
> > > > LAYER
> > > >   NAME flow
> > > >   TYPE POINT
> > > >   STATUS DEFAULT
> > > >   DATA flow/flow
> > > >   TOLERANCE 5
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     SYMBOL 3
> > > >     SIZE 8
> > > >     NAME "Daily Stream Flow Data"
> > > >     COLOR 254 0 254
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > >   QUERY
> > > >     TEMPLATE query_templates/flow.html
> > > >   END
> > > > END # Layer
> > > >
> > > > LAYER
> > > >   NAME counties
> > > >   TYPE LINE
> > > >   STATUS DEFAULT
> > > >   DATA counties/counties
> > > >   TOLERANCE 5
> > > >
> > > >   CLASS
> > > >     NAME "Counties"
> > > >     COLOR 0 0 0
> > > >   END
> > > >
> > > > #  QUERY
> > > > #    TEMPLATE query_templates/counties.html
> > > > #  END
> > > > END # Layer
> > > >
> > > > END # Map File
> > > >
> >



From sl57k at cc.usu.edu  Thu Feb 17 17:29:45 2000
From: sl57k at cc.usu.edu (Jason Maestri)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:29:45 -0700
Subject: Query Question...
References: <s8ac46af.088@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>
Message-ID: <38ACA089.A6B2BB19@cc.usu.edu>

Okay, here goes...
    I am sending this message back out to the mapserver-users list for all to see.  It has been a thread between Steve and I the past couple of days...  You all can read down the page to see the details, but mostly we were talking about writing a perl/Tk or ARC/View front end to edit the map files.  I have been toying with the idea here, and my boss likes it, he just has yet to approve the resources to do it.  Is anybody already doing something like this?  I saw that Erich
Schroeder wrote a neat little AML script to do something like this.  I was thinking of writing an aveneue  or perl/Tk script  which would prompt you for things like filenames and directories (and extents in the case of the perl scripts, unless I got really fancy), and then go ahead and build the mapfiles.  They would have graphical front ends so as to be easy to use.  Anyway feel free to send input.

--Jason

Stephen Lime wrote:

> Did you see the AML tool today. Hot topic. Yes, a save method would write the whole thing. Again you might post to the list to get a sense for interest. I think it'd be pretty high.
>
> Steve
>
> <<< Jason Maestri <sl57k at cc.usu.edu>  2/17  3:34p >>>
> Steve,
>     That sounds good.  I'll talk to my boss about whether or not we can
> get the time to do it.  I'll also see about the arcView extension.
> That'd be really handy. As for the mapObj save method, will that write
> out an entire map file?
>
> --Jason
>
> Stephen Lime wrote:
>
> > Sure I'd be interested in any productivity tools. There are a couple of other users interested in something similar only they're working from with in ArcView. There are a number of similarities however. Perhaps a message to the group about this would be worthwhile? No sense in having 10 versions of this if a single app will work. I like the perl/tk method cause is doesn't need arcview.
> >
> > Also, I am writing a mapObj save method/function for MapScript. You could use tk/tcl and a tk/tcl version of MapScript (post to the list, I know this is being done) to build the mapObj from scratch then call the save method to write a valid script. You'd also want to be able to load a existing file and modify it. That MapScript function alrady exists. The writer would be nice for you NOT to have to implement because then you wouldn't have to worry about changes or anything
> > in the file syntax.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > <<< Jason Maestri <sl57k at cc.usu.edu>  2/15 11:53p >>>
> > Thanks Steve!  I sure appreciate your help...
> >
> > By the way,
> >     We have been toying with the idea of setting up a perl/Tk front end to
> > building the map files.  If we actually do get approval to spend the time to build
> > it, would you be interested in adding it to the distribution?
> >
> > --Jason
> >
> > Stephen Lime wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Jason: Nope, not currently. Makes sense to me
> > > though so i'll add it to the to do list from 3.3.008 which should be out soon.
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > > <<< Jason Maestri <sl57k at cc.usu.edu>  2/15  7:42p >>>
> > > Hey All,
> > >     Is there a way mapserver query can return the number of the shape(s)
> > > that has been selected (i.e.: it's position in the shapefile)?  I'd like
> > > to dynamically edit records in the .dbf file based on a query.  Most of
> > > the shapefile databases we have don't have a field that can be used as a
> > > primary key, so I need to know the index (record number) of the shape
> > > that I am working with.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >     Jason
> >
> >
> >



From erich at museum.state.il.us  Thu Feb 17 13:37:45 2000
From: erich at museum.state.il.us (Erich Schroeder)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 21:37:45 +0000 (/etc/localtime)
Subject: Query Question...
In-Reply-To: <38ACA089.A6B2BB19@cc.usu.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002172108560.7665-100000@demeter>

Hi,
  I think that it would be reasonable to have a number of tools to build a
mapfile. Perl/TK would be great, particularly for applications where they
already work in shapefiles.

  One thing that I was wondering about, is it possible to parse out an
ArcView project file to produce an initial mapfile? That would, at least,
have the proper (reversed) order of the layers, the thematic divisions
within the layers, color choices(?), and joins. Is there, perhaps,
something within the layout view that could be used?

  In my case I'll probably get back to the AML version because we always
work with the native A/I coverages, and don't do too much in ArcView
except for publishing for the users. I think that the AML route would be
much helped by using form menus allowing for more flexibility, perhaps
storing information in a temporary info file which then can be used to
dump the final mapfile draft.

  It was about 2 years ago that I first tried mapserver. At that time I
was looking for a method to replace the old
arcplot==>postscript==>ghostscript==>netpbm method that I had used before.
Although at that time I got the mapserver demo to work (I think version
2.1) I couldn't get my own data to work and so opted for Jshape instead.
But I still have a large application that I need to redo as it has
been offline since we put in our firewall, and now I think that I can
manage it. 

Thanks everyone for their help, and I'll post a summary to my newbie
questions soon.

Erich

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From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Thu Feb 17 20:28:01 2000
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 22:28:01 -0600
Subject: converting/ making shapefiles
Message-ID: <s8ac7603.098@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>

Actually there isn't. Current 3.3 removed the shapelib directory. This was done be cause my needs were diverging from the more recent shapelib distribution. I now maintain my own hacked version of Frank's code. The utils Ken mentions are still available with the new shapelib and are improved in some cases. Visit Franks shapelib homepage for
the most recent version which is great for shapefile work.

Again, try mapscript. I added shapefile read/write
methods for just this purpose. I can provide sample code if anyone is interested...

Steve

<<< kenboss <kenboss at dilbert.dnr.state.mn.us>  2/17 12:08p >>>
There is readily available C code just waiting to be hacked to suit your 
purposes in your mapserver distribution.  Have a look in the "shapelib" 
subdirectory - shpdump.c and dbfdump.c can be used together to go from shape to 
CSV, while shpcreate.c and dbfcreate.c can be employed in the other direction.

--Ken

> Peter,

> 
> Since the shapefile format is available, you might be better off writing
> some C or VB or ?? to achieve what you are after.  Perhaps someone has
> already done this?
> 

> 
> Cheers,
> Jim
> 
> "Peter H.M. Jacobs" wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > has anyone heard of a tool to convert shapefiles into comma separated value
> > files and visa versa
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Peter Jacobs




From erich at museum.state.il.us  Thu Feb 17 14:56:43 2000
From: erich at museum.state.il.us (Erich Schroeder)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 22:56:43 +0000 (/etc/localtime)
Subject: A couple of newbie questions (SUMMARY)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002172236340.8877-100000@demeter>

Many thanks to Ken and Jason. My mapfile snippets for the two questions I
had look like:
LAYER
   NAME survey
   TYPE POLYGON
   STATUS DEFAULT
   DATA iasplot/sangamon/survey
   CLASS
     NAME  "Survey Areas"
     EXPRESSION ([SURVEY_ID] > 0)
     SYMBOL 1
     COLOR 32 201 32
     OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
   END
END #survey layer

and
LAYER
   NAME site
   TYPE POLYGON
   STATUS DEFAULT
   DATA iasplot/sangamon/cty
   CLASS
     SYMBOL 0
     COLOR 255 30 2
      OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
   END
   QUERYITEM "INDEX"
   QUERY
     EXPRESSION ([INDEX] > 0)
     template site_detail.html
     JOIN
       table "iasplot/sangamon/iasdata.dbf"
       from "INDEX"
       to "INDEX"
     END # join
   END # query  
END

Works like a dream.

Erich

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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 11:51:46 +0000 (/etc/localtime)
From: Erich Schroeder <erich at museum.state.il.us>
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: A couple of newbie questions

Hi,
  Last weekend I finally got my own Mapserver application to work, at
least to allow zooming and panning. I'm confused on quering and other
things, still.

First:
One of my layers (areas where archaeological surveys have been done) has
internal polygons which are actually unsurveyed. Within the dbf file the
value of SURVEY_ID for these is 0, all "real" polygons have a numeric code
relating to a document number describing the survey.

Could someone show me a mapfile snippet that will only display polygons
with SURVEY_ID > 0?

One of the other layers is the locations of reported archaeological sites,
digitized as polygons. My users will want to be able to click on a site
and get the information associated. The information is in a separate dbf
file that can be linked to the coverage by a index number. 

What is the combination of mapfile information and html code that will
make it possible for a user to click on a polygon, and get a listing of
the associated record?

I hope these are simple...

Erich

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Curator, Information Technologies  FAX:   (217)785-2857
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From peter.jacobs at vs42.nl  Fri Feb 18 07:24:56 2000
From: peter.jacobs at vs42.nl (Peter Jacobs)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 16:24:56 +0100
Subject: Class Expression and Feature
Message-ID: <38AD6448.6B5C14B9@vs42.nl>

Hello Stephen and others,

in reaction of the email I recieved from Stephen about how to put a
label on a street, I followed his advise on using the inline feature. It
doesn't seem to work tough.
Does anyone know what I did wrong

Regards,

Peter

Layer 
   Name Streets
   TYPE annotation
   CLASS
     SYMBOL 0
     EXPRESSION ('[TEXTSTRING]' ne 'mark')
     ...
   END
   CLASS
     SYMBOL 4
     SIZE 20
     EXPRESSION ('[TEXTSTRING]' eq 'mark')
     ...
   END
END

Layer 
   NAME StreetQuery
   TYPE ANNOTATION
   STAUS QUERYONLY
   QUERYITEM "TEXTSTRING"
   QUERY
     TEMPLATE
"../cgi-bin/mapserv?...&map_Streets_feature=new&map_Streets_points=[shpmidx]+[shpmidy]&map_Streets_feature_class=mark"
    END
END


From bfischer at usgs.gov  Fri Feb 18 08:28:40 2000
From: bfischer at usgs.gov (bfischer at usgs.gov)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 10:28:40 -0600
Subject: Complex query on Shapefiles attributes
Message-ID: <OF835AB339.E312ABCC-ON86256889.00583905@cr.usgs.gov>

Hello Everyone,

     I have a question regarding a query on a shapefile's attributes.
Here is what I am trying to do.  I have an image where the user can click
on a polygon and retrieve it's attributes.  This part I have working and
understand.  Now I would like to take the value three of the attributes
from the polygon that the user selected and use it in a expression.  Here
is an example of the logic:  The user selected a polygon, from this I can
get the polygon's attributes called num1, num2, and num3.  I want to use
the values of num1, num2, and num3 to put into a query or class expression
like ([num1] >= [num2] and [num1] <= [num3]). From this I would get a
number of selected polygons to return to the user in a map with all the
polygons highlighted.  I am working with only the polygon features within
one shapefile.
     Can this be done with mapserv or do I need to look at doing this in
Javascript or some other language?  I would also like to comment on the
discussion of development tools for Mapserver.  For myself an
Avenue/ArcView extension would be useful.

Any suggestions would be apprecieted,
Thanks.

Brian Fischer
bfischer at usgs.gov
USGS WRD
2280 Woodale Dr.
Mounds View, MN
(612) 783-3133




From peter.jacobs at vs42.nl  Fri Feb 18 08:57:32 2000
From: peter.jacobs at vs42.nl (Peter H.M. Jacobs)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 17:57:32 +0100
Subject: Complex query on Shapefiles attributes
In-Reply-To: <OF835AB339.E312ABCC-ON86256889.00583905@cr.usgs.gov>
Message-ID: <NDBBKMPGELCFDJPOHAMEGEMJCAAA.peter.jacobs@vs42.nl>

Hello Brian,

what you want is to my opinion exactly the same question as I posed a couple
of days ago. The only difference is that I want to highlite just one street
and you want to highlite several polygons. This makes it a bit more
difficult.

My question and answer were the following:


This is the case:
A user enters the name of a streetin a textbox. I query the street in the
following layer with an item/value itemquery and send the result back to
mapserv to create a map with the street in te center of the new map. Finally
I want to mark that street. I thought to do this with these two layers.

LAYER
   NAME QueryLayer18Text # Straatnamen doorlopende wegen
   TYPE ANNOTATION
   STATUS QUERYONLY
   DATA Layer18Text
   QUERYITEM "TEXTSTRING"
   QUERY
     TEMPLATE
"http://../?map=/sites/../delft.map&mode=browse&scale=3000&mapxy=[shpmid]&va
lue=[value]"
   END
END


LAYER
   NAME Layer18Text # Straatnamen doorlopende wegen
   TYPE ANNOTATION
   STATUS DEFAULT
   DATA Layer18Text
   MAXSCALE 12000
   LABELITEM "TEXTSTRING"
   LABELANGLEITEM "TEXT_ANGLE"
   LABELSIZEITEM "TEXT_SIZE"
   CLASSITEM "TEXTSTRING"
   CLASS
     NAME SELECTED
     EXPRESSION ([TEXTSTRING] eq [value])
     SYMBOL 0
     COLOR 0 0 0
     LABEL
        ANTIALIAS
        COLOR 0 0 0
        FONT arial
	  TYPE TRUETYPE
        SIZE 20
        POSITION UR
     END
   END
   CLASS
	NAME NOTSELECTED
	EXPRESSION /./ #the rest
   ...
   END
END

This was the reaction I recieved from Stephen.

Peter and all... At issue here is making queries persistant. An interesting
problem. The current version allows you to tackle the problem 2 ways:

 1) save the item and value as hidden variables
    and use mode=itemquery with a query map

This works but is difficult to use. It actually pretty easy but is not well
documented and lightly tested.

  2. use the [shpmidx] and [shpmidy] to define an
     inline feature in the query object TEMPLATE
     url for the 1st (item/value). Then save that
     feature (and text if necessary) using hidden
     vars in the main pan/zoom template.

To do this your template after the item/value query would contain something
like this:


...map_streetmarker_feature_points=[shpmidx]+[shpmidy]&map_streetmarker_feat
ure_text=some text that is escaped...

This assumes you have a layer called "streetmarker" at the end of your
mapfile (so it'll be drawn and labeled for sure).

Again, this method works and I do have examples where a point is added to
the map in this manner. Problem is that it is really hard to use with more
than one feature. You can use javascript but it ain't easy. In Peters case I
believe this is the
best method.

It ain't perfect. Know, before everyone goes "well, that sucks" I believe I
have a solution to this problem, at least in part. Version 3.3.008 will
allow you to save/load query results so they can be made persistant. For
example, in Peters case the itemvalue query could be saved and the name of
the saved query could be passed to the map generation call for the
mapserver. Instead of simply drawing the map normally, the def for querymap
would be used and the matching road might show up in yellow. It's still in
development but it looks promising.

---
Because you, Brian, want to create a map with several spots highlited, I
think you have to use the querymap. I found some help about the use of the
querymap in one of the articles posted by Ken Boss (december 1999)
I'm sorry I can't give you the solution, but perhaps this will help

Regards,

Peter




From RAldridge at linuxstart.com  Fri Feb 18 12:44:47 2000
From: RAldridge at linuxstart.com (RAldridge)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 12:44:47 -0800
Subject: Expression help
Message-ID: <200002182044.MAA08282@ns1.filetron.com>

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From: RAldridge at linuxstart.com (RAldridge)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 13:16:52 -0800
Subject: Expression help
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From sl57k at cc.usu.edu  Fri Feb 18 13:32:07 2000
From: sl57k at cc.usu.edu (Jason Maestri)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:32:07 -0700
Subject: Expression help
References: <200002182044.MAA08282@ns1.filetron.com>
Message-ID: <38ADBA57.C2161E1@cc.usu.edu>

Hmm.. Why don't you try:
    CLASS
        NAME "0 - 9"
        EXPRESSION (([AGE2000] >= 0) && ([AGE2000] < 10))
        SYMBOL 0
        OUTLINECOLOR 0
        COLOR 50 255 50
    END

--Jason Maestri



RAldridge wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> I'm needing help writing expressions to classify forest stands by age.  My shapefile includes a data item named "AGE2000" which is a numeric item representing the age fo the stand.  How do I need to set up classes if I want to represent the data in 10-year age classes.  Values of "AGE2000" range from 0 to 74.  Right now I have:
>
> LAYER
>   NAME standage
>   TYPE polygon
>   STATUS off
>   DATA stand110
>   CLASSITEM "AGE2000"
>   CLASS
>     NAME "0 - 9"
>     EXPRESSION "???"
>     SYMBOL 0
>     OUTLINECOLOR 0
>     COLOR 50 255 50
>   END
>   CLASS
>     NAME "10 - 19"
>     EXPRESSION "???"



From david.fawcett at moea.state.mn.us  Fri Feb 18 13:23:57 2000
From: david.fawcett at moea.state.mn.us (Fawcett, David)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 15:23:57 -0600
Subject: Expression help
Message-ID: <3E2112BBDA46D311824C00805F9FE4FF40B2D7@pca-ex03.pca.state.mn.us>

The easiest way would be to pre-class them (1 - 8) in ArcView, Access, or some other database program.

I can't help you with the regular expressions, but if you search the archives at 

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wilma/mapserver-users

you should be able to find some examples.

David.

David Fawcett
Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance
 

> ----------
> From: 	RAldridge[SMTP:RAldridge at linuxstart.com]
> Sent: 	Friday, February 18, 2000 2:44 PM
> To: 	mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: 	Expression help
> 
> Hello list,
> 
> I'm needing help writing expressions to classify forest stands by age.  My shapefile includes a data item named "AGE2000" which is a numeric item representing the age fo the stand.  How do I need to set up classes if I want to represent the data in 10-year age classes.  Values of "AGE2000" range from 0 to 74.  Right now I have:
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME standage
>   TYPE polygon
>   STATUS off
>   DATA stand110
>   CLASSITEM "AGE2000"
>   CLASS
>     NAME "0 - 9"
>     EXPRESSION "???"
>     SYMBOL 0
>     OUTLINECOLOR 0
>     COLOR 50 255 50
>   END
>   CLASS
>     NAME "10 - 19"
>     EXPRESSION "???"
> 


From RAldridge at linuxstart.com  Fri Feb 18 14:05:53 2000
From: RAldridge at linuxstart.com (RAldridge)
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:05:53 -0800
Subject: Expression help
Message-ID: <200002182205.OAA17513@ns1.filetron.com>

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From imap at chesapeake.net  Sat Feb 19 21:03:16 2000
From: imap at chesapeake.net (imap at chesapeake.net)
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 00:03:16 -0500
Subject: Problem with PROJ support in mapscript
Message-ID: <38AF7594.8FE246A3@chesapeake.net>



I have build a version of mapserv3.3_007 with PROJ4 support and
trying to make mapscript have the same options, so I edited 
mapscript Makefile.PL to include the PROJ4 lib and includes,
but when I try to "make" it, I get this error:

In file included from ../../mapproject.h:7,
                 from ../../mapshape.h:6,
                 from ../../map.h:23,
                 from mapscript_wrap.c:443:
/home/cstuber/PROJ.4/src/projects.h:43: conflicting types for `UV'
/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/CORE/perl.h:841: previous declaration of
`UV'
make: *** [mapscript_wrap.o] Error 1

Seems that both PROJ4 and PERL both declare the variable "UV"
which are distinctly different.  I hate to hack up either, but
may have to in order to get the mapscript to compile.  Any ideas
or suggestions from the usergroup?


-- 

Chris Stuber (mapsurfer)
Silicon Mapping Solutions, Inc.


From bfraser at geoanalytic.com  Sun Feb 20 17:23:19 2000
From: bfraser at geoanalytic.com (Brent Fraser)
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 18:23:19 -0700
Subject: Problem with PROJ support in mapscript
References: <38AF7594.8FE246A3@chesapeake.net>
Message-ID: <006301bf7c0a$3cee9890$e9604318@cgno1.ab.wave.home.com>

I ran into that problem when compiling under Windows.
I changed the PROJ4 source from UV to ptUV.  I need
to contact Frank W. about integrating the change into
the "official" PROJ4 source...

Brent

----- Original Message -----
From: <imap at chesapeake.net>
To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 10:03 PM
Subject: Problem with PROJ support in mapscript


>
>
> I have build a version of mapserv3.3_007 with PROJ4 support and
> trying to make mapscript have the same options, so I edited
> mapscript Makefile.PL to include the PROJ4 lib and includes,
> but when I try to "make" it, I get this error:
>
> In file included from ../../mapproject.h:7,
>                  from ../../mapshape.h:6,
>                  from ../../map.h:23,
>                  from mapscript_wrap.c:443:
> /home/cstuber/PROJ.4/src/projects.h:43: conflicting types for `UV'
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/CORE/perl.h:841: previous declaration of
> `UV'
> make: *** [mapscript_wrap.o] Error 1
>
> Seems that both PROJ4 and PERL both declare the variable "UV"
> which are distinctly different.  I hate to hack up either, but
> may have to in order to get the mapscript to compile.  Any ideas
> or suggestions from the usergroup?
>
>
> --
>
> Chris Stuber (mapsurfer)
> Silicon Mapping Solutions, Inc.



From imap at chesapeake.net  Sun Feb 20 19:04:21 2000
From: imap at chesapeake.net (imap at chesapeake.net)
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 22:04:21 -0500
Subject: Problem with PROJ support in mapscript
References: <38AF7594.8FE246A3@chesapeake.net> <006301bf7c0a$3cee9890$e9604318@cgno1.ab.wave.home.com>
Message-ID: <38B0AB35.85F0AA91@chesapeake.net>


Brent, Gerald Evenden is the author and keeper of PROJ4.
I am re-addressing the email directly to him.


Gerald,

We (mapserver-users group) are writing concerning PROJ4.3.  
The variable or structure "UV" has a conflict with PERL 
(in perl.h) and Brent Fraser mentioned a conflict with 
something in Windows.  We'd like to propose a change
to the "official" PROJ4 source to rename "UV" to
something more unique.  (see notes below)


Also (unrelated PROJ4 issue),  while compiling
PROJ4.3 on a SGI Challenge XL with the SGI compiler, I
get an internal compiler error in biveval.c in the following
function:

        UV /* general entry point selecting evaluation mode */
biveval(UV in, Tseries *T) {
        return (T->power ? bpseval(in, T) : bcheval(in, T)); 
}


I had to change to the following:


        UV /* general entry point selecting evaluation mode */
biveval(UV in, Tseries *T) {
        if (T->power) {
           return bpseval(in, T);
        } else {
           return bcheval(in, T);
        }
}


This has something to do with the SGI C compiler... I had to make
the change when compiling on the big machines and the workstations
that I am using.  I've compiled PROJ on many different machine and
have never seen that choke with any other compiler.  Not critical,
but something for you to note.

Regards,

Chris Stuber


Brent Fraser wrote:
> 
> I ran into that problem when compiling under Windows.
> I changed the PROJ4 source from UV to ptUV.  I need
> to contact Frank W. about integrating the change into
> the "official" PROJ4 source...
> 
> Brent
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <imap at chesapeake.net>
> To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 10:03 PM
> Subject: Problem with PROJ support in mapscript
> 
> >
> >
> > I have build a version of mapserv3.3_007 with PROJ4 support and
> > trying to make mapscript have the same options, so I edited
> > mapscript Makefile.PL to include the PROJ4 lib and includes,
> > but when I try to "make" it, I get this error:
> >
> > In file included from ../../mapproject.h:7,
> >                  from ../../mapshape.h:6,
> >                  from ../../map.h:23,
> >                  from mapscript_wrap.c:443:
> > /home/cstuber/PROJ.4/src/projects.h:43: conflicting types for `UV'
> > /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/CORE/perl.h:841: previous declaration of
> > `UV'
> > make: *** [mapscript_wrap.o] Error 1
> >
> > Seems that both PROJ4 and PERL both declare the variable "UV"
> > which are distinctly different.  I hate to hack up either, but
> > may have to in order to get the mapscript to compile.  Any ideas
> > or suggestions from the usergroup?
> >
> >

-- 

Chris Stuber (mapsurfer)
Silicon Mapping Solutions, Inc.


From imap at chesapeake.net  Mon Feb 21 01:35:15 2000
From: imap at chesapeake.net (imap at chesapeake.net)
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 04:35:15 -0500
Subject: 3.3.007 featurequery problem
References: <s8a2b308.082@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>
Message-ID: <38B106D3.76E02A9E@chesapeake.net>


Steve/List, 

Beginning with 3.3.007, I am having a problem with FEATUREQUERY
returning 0 results from a selection layer.  Is anyone else
using 3.3.007 with mode=FEATUREQUERY with a slayer?  If so,
please check.  I went back to 3.3.006 and all is well with
that version.  

-Chris Stuber (mapsurfer)
Silicon Mapping Solutions, Inc.


From teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu  Mon Feb 21 14:52:55 2000
From: teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu (Thomas E. Burk)
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 16:52:55 -0600 (CST)
Subject: submission of utilities
Message-ID: <200002212252.QAA00275@mallit.fr.umn.edu>

We are now accepting utilities that are of general interest to MapServer 
application developers for publishing in our "Utility Archive" available through 
the MapServer Support page <http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/support.html>. The 
listserv will not forward messages larger than 40k so this is the only way to 
get large contributions out to the list. We will notify the list as submissions 
are made.

Thanks to Ross Searle for the first submission posted.

Thanks,
TOm


From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Tue Feb 22 08:19:25 2000
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:19:25 -0600
Subject: 3.3.007 featurequery problem
Message-ID: <s8b262b5.092@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>

3.3.007 was the first version to expose queries to mapscript. Consequently
I had to make a few changes to the various query functions, relatively minor
but it looks like I screwed one up. Most likely a typo. Will fix.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

Minnesota DNR
500 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155
651-297-2937

>>> <imap at chesapeake.net> 02/21/00 03:35AM >>>

Steve/List, 

Beginning with 3.3.007, I am having a problem with FEATUREQUERY
returning 0 results from a selection layer.  Is anyone else
using 3.3.007 with mode=FEATUREQUERY with a slayer?  If so,
please check.  I went back to 3.3.006 and all is well with
that version.  

-Chris Stuber (mapsurfer)
Silicon Mapping Solutions, Inc.



From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Tue Feb 22 09:35:59 2000
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:35:59 -0600
Subject: Class Expression and Feature
Message-ID: <s8b2749f.095@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>

Hi Peter the problem looks to be in the the way you've got the expressions
set up in the Streets layer. Logical expressions only apply (for now) to shapefile
layers. The column names in brackets apply only to shapefile attribute tables.

(I like the idea of a general logical expression which i'll add in 3.3.008) 

So in this case you have to use string expressions and/or regular expressions.
Try this.

Layer 
   Name Streets
   TYPE annotation
   CLASS
     SYMBOL 0
     EXPRESSION "mark"    # matches only the string 'mark'
     ...
   END
   CLASS
     SYMBOL 4
     SIZE 20
     EXPRESSION /./          # regex that matches anything else
     ...
   END
END

Note that expressions CAN overlap. Membership is determined by the
first match encountered. So even though 'mark' matches the last class
it will always be caught by the first class.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

Minnesota DNR
500 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155
651-297-2937

>>> Peter Jacobs <peter.jacobs at vs42.nl> 02/18/00 09:24AM >>>
Hello Stephen and others,

in reaction of the email I recieved from Stephen about how to put a
label on a street, I followed his advise on using the inline feature. It
doesn't seem to work tough.
Does anyone know what I did wrong

Regards,

Peter

Layer 
   Name Streets
   TYPE annotation
   CLASS
     SYMBOL 0
     EXPRESSION ('[TEXTSTRING]' ne 'mark')
     ...
   END
   CLASS
     SYMBOL 4
     SIZE 20
     EXPRESSION ('[TEXTSTRING]' eq 'mark')
     ...
   END
END

Layer 
   NAME StreetQuery
   TYPE ANNOTATION
   STAUS QUERYONLY
   QUERYITEM "TEXTSTRING"
   QUERY
     TEMPLATE
"../cgi-bin/mapserv?...&map_Streets_feature=new&map_Streets_points=[shpmidx]+[shpmidy]&map_Streets_feature_class=mark"
    END
END



From bfischer at usgs.gov  Tue Feb 22 09:30:06 2000
From: bfischer at usgs.gov (bfischer at usgs.gov)
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:30:06 -0600
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <OFA5035273.A4C230DE-ON8625688D.005F3B78@cr.usgs.gov>

Mapserver users,

     I ran into a problem when I use the itemnquery on a shapefile
attributes.  The value of the attribute in a shapefile is Mississippi River
(Brainerd).  The itemnquery works on all the values that do not have a
perenthesis.  Do I have to put a special charcter in HTML file to identify
the perenthesis?  The other solution would be to edit the shapefile's
attributes.

Here is the HTML code:
<select name="value" size="1">
  <option> Big Fork River
  <option> Big Sioux River (Medary Creek)
  <option> Big Sioux River (Pipestone)
  <option> Blue Earth River
</select>

Thanks,

Brian Fischer
bfischer at usgs.gov
USGS WRD
2280 Woodale Dr.
Mounds View, MN
(612) 783-3133




From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Tue Feb 22 10:55:34 2000
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 12:55:34 -0600
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <s8b28752.000@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>

Remember that at present what you are actually sending to the mapserver is
a regular expression. I've not yet changed mapserver to allow string and logical
expression queries via itemquery. That being said, ()'s are special characters
in a regex and therefore need to be escaped to work properly. Try this snippet
of code (it should work):

<select name="value" size="1">
  <option> Big Fork River
  <option value="Big Sioux River \(Medary Creek\)"> Big Sioux River (Medary Creek)
  <option value="Big Sioux River \(Pipestone\)"> Big Sioux River (Pipestone)
  <option> Blue Earth River
</select>

Note the escaped ()'s (i.e. the backslash). The same treatment is necessary with 
all regex special characters.

Steve


Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

Minnesota DNR
500 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155
651-297-2937

>>> <bfischer at usgs.gov> 02/22/00 11:30AM >>>
Mapserver users,

     I ran into a problem when I use the itemnquery on a shapefile
attributes.  The value of the attribute in a shapefile is Mississippi River
(Brainerd).  The itemnquery works on all the values that do not have a
perenthesis.  Do I have to put a special charcter in HTML file to identify
the perenthesis?  The other solution would be to edit the shapefile's
attributes.

Here is the HTML code:
<select name="value" size="1">
  <option> Big Fork River
  <option> Big Sioux River (Medary Creek)
  <option> Big Sioux River (Pipestone)
  <option> Blue Earth River
</select>

Thanks,

Brian Fischer
bfischer at usgs.gov 
USGS WRD
2280 Woodale Dr.
Mounds View, MN
(612) 783-3133





From erich at museum.state.il.us  Tue Feb 22 05:16:33 2000
From: erich at museum.state.il.us (Erich Schroeder)
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 13:16:33 +0000 (/etc/localtime)
Subject: One to many joins
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002221312560.10341-100000@demeter>

Hi,
  I have a 3.0007 mapfile set up with point layer of zipcode centroids,
joined to a dbf file with museums. In some cases there are several museums
in the same zip code, and I want a query to list all the records that
match with the zip. Right now it only brings up one record. My layer
section looks like:

LAYER
  NAME zips
  TYPE POINT
  STATUS ON
  DATA zips
  CLASS
    SYMBOL 3
    COLOR 0 0 255
    NAME "IAM Museums"
    EXPRESSION ([MUSEUM] > 0)
  END # class
  QUERYITEM "ZIPCODE"
  QUERY
   EXPRESSION ([MUSEUM] > 0)
   template museum_detail.html
   JOIN
     template museum_detail.html
     name "museumdetail"
     type multiple
     table "museums.dbf"
     from "ZIPCODE"
     to "ZIP"
   END # join
 END # query
END

What have I misunderstood?

Erich

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Erich Schroeder                    Phone: (217)785-0033
Curator, Information Technologies  FAX:   (217)785-2857
Illinois State Museum GIS Lab      Internet: erich at museum.state.il.us
http://www.museum.state.il.us/ismdepts/anthro/staff/erich/erich.html
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From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Tue Feb 22 11:45:00 2000
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 13:45:00 -0600
Subject: One to many joins
Message-ID: <s8b292e4.067@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>

Your template for the join is the same as the template for the whole query.
This is not correct. Your query template should contain 

[museumdetail]

by itself on a line. This tells the mapserver to expand that line using the
join template. The join template then contains the formatting for a single
joined record and it is repeated for every matching result in the 1-to-many
join. You can also have a join header and footer template to further control
the output. The header and footer are only displayed if the join succeeds.
In a case when you're positive the join will always work you could do 
something like:

<table>
<tr><th>Name</th><th>Location</th></tr>
[museumdetail]
</table>

Where the template for the join called museumdetail looks like:

<tr><td>[NAME]</td><td>[LOCATION</td></tr>

Questions?

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

Minnesota DNR
500 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155
651-297-2937

>>> Erich Schroeder <erich at museum.state.il.us> 02/22/00 07:16AM >>>
Hi,
  I have a 3.0007 mapfile set up with point layer of zipcode centroids,
joined to a dbf file with museums. In some cases there are several museums
in the same zip code, and I want a query to list all the records that
match with the zip. Right now it only brings up one record. My layer
section looks like:

LAYER
  NAME zips
  TYPE POINT
  STATUS ON
  DATA zips
  CLASS
    SYMBOL 3
    COLOR 0 0 255
    NAME "IAM Museums"
    EXPRESSION ([MUSEUM] > 0)
  END # class
  QUERYITEM "ZIPCODE"
  QUERY
   EXPRESSION ([MUSEUM] > 0)
   template museum_detail.html
   JOIN
     template museum_detail.html
     name "museumdetail"
     type multiple
     table "museums.dbf"
     from "ZIPCODE"
     to "ZIP"
   END # join
 END # query
END

What have I misunderstood?

Erich

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Erich Schroeder                    Phone: (217)785-0033
Curator, Information Technologies  FAX:   (217)785-2857
Illinois State Museum GIS Lab      Internet: erich at museum.state.il.us 
http://www.museum.state.il.us/ismdepts/anthro/staff/erich/erich.html 
---------------------------------------------------------------------




From bosshogg at bitstream.net  Tue Feb 22 12:03:23 2000
From: bosshogg at bitstream.net (Morgan Covill)
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 14:03:23 -0600
Subject: web object
Message-ID: <3.0.32.20000222140315.009d3130@bitstream.net>

Hi,
I have started to play with the mapserv demo and would like to be able make
a template that uses frames and have the image template in a seperate frame
from the legend/submit form. Any suggestions ? 
Thanks in advance
Morgan


From erich at museum.state.il.us  Tue Feb 22 06:40:55 2000
From: erich at museum.state.il.us (Erich Schroeder)
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 14:40:55 +0000 (/etc/localtime)
Subject: One to many joins
In-Reply-To: <s8b292e4.067@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002221435360.10341-100000@demeter>

Steve,
  That worked just fine. The layer snippet now looks like:

LAYER
  NAME zips
  TYPE POINT
  STATUS ON
  DATA zips
  CLASS
    SYMBOL 3
    COLOR 0 0 255
    NAME "IAM Museums"
    EXPRESSION ([MUSEUM] > 0)
  END # class
  QUERYITEM "ZIPCODE"
  QUERY
   EXPRESSION ([MUSEUM] > 0)
   template museums.html
   JOIN
     template museum_detail.html
     name "museumdetail"
     type multiple
     table "museums.dbf"
     from "ZIPCODE"
     to "ZIP"
   END # join
 END # query
END

Thanks for the prompt answer.

Erich

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Erich Schroeder                    Phone: (217)785-0033
Curator, Information Technologies  FAX:   (217)785-2857
Illinois State Museum GIS Lab      Internet: erich at museum.state.il.us
http://www.museum.state.il.us/ismdepts/anthro/staff/erich/erich.html
---------------------------------------------------------------------



From sl57k at cc.usu.edu  Tue Feb 22 14:54:53 2000
From: sl57k at cc.usu.edu (Jason Maestri)
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 15:54:53 -0700
Subject: String Lengths...
Message-ID: <38B313BD.3A20E727@cc.usu.edu>

Howdy,

Just a quick question... What is the maximum string length that
Mapserver allows?  I
specifically need the lengths of:
    o filenames
    o expressions
    o names (of objects such as layers and classes).

Thanks,
    Jason



From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Tue Feb 22 14:53:00 2000
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 16:53:00 -0600
Subject: String Lengths...
Message-ID: <s8b2befa.072@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>

All are allocated dynamically. There are some OS specific limits on filename
length. The lex input buffer is 4k so no single map file line can be longer
than that. Item names (classitem, labelitem etc...) are bound by the xbase
spec for column names which I think is 16 chars but I may be wrong.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

Minnesota DNR
500 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155
651-297-2937

>>> Jason Maestri <sl57k at cc.usu.edu> 02/22/00 04:54PM >>>
Howdy,

Just a quick question... What is the maximum string length that
Mapserver allows?  I
specifically need the lengths of:
    o filenames
    o expressions
    o names (of objects such as layers and classes).

Thanks,
    Jason




From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Tue Feb 22 20:34:18 2000
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 22:34:18 -0600
Subject: Complex query on Shapefiles attributes
Message-ID: <s8b30ef5.029@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>

Hi Brian: You'll be able to do this with 3.3.008 if I understand it right. Your using 1 polygon to set the bounds for another query correct? If that's the case then your example query is missing the value(s) from all the other polygons that need to be evaluated against your base expression.

Anyway with 3.3 you can dynamically change class expressions on-the-fly. Only problem is that it's busted since I added the logical expression support. It's fixed in 3.3.008 though. So your app should be a piece of cake in a few days.

Steve

<<< <bfischer at usgs.gov>  2/18 10:28a >>>
Hello Everyone,

     I have a question regarding a query on a shapefile's attributes.
Here is what I am trying to do.  I have an image where the user can click
on a polygon and retrieve it's attributes.  This part I have working and
understand.  Now I would like to take the value three of the attributes
from the polygon that the user selected and use it in a expression.  Here
is an example of the logic:  The user selected a polygon, from this I can
get the polygon's attributes called num1, num2, and num3.  I want to use
the values of num1, num2, and num3 to put into a query or class expression
like ([num1] >= [num2] and [num1] <= [num3]). From this I would get a
number of selected polygons to return to the user in a map with all the
polygons highlighted.  I am working with only the polygon features within
one shapefile.
     Can this be done with mapserv or do I need to look at doing this in
Javascript or some other language?  I would also like to comment on the
discussion of development tools for Mapserver.  For myself an
Avenue/ArcView extension would be useful.

Any suggestions would be apprecieted,
Thanks.

Brian Fischer
bfischer at usgs.gov
USGS WRD
2280 Woodale Dr.
Mounds View, MN
(612) 783-3133





From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Tue Feb 22 20:46:10 2000
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 22:46:10 -0600
Subject: web object
Message-ID: <s8b311d2.057@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>

Lots of ways to do it. Your legend/controls frame would not be a template, but rather a static page. Since it never reloads there is no need for substitutions. The webObj template would be pretty simple too, just the map, scalebar or whatever. The big trick is getting information about the newly created map (eg. it's extent) back to the controls frame. You'll need some simle javascript to do that. You can have the map template hold a hidden form var that is used by the controls frame to set a form var on its page at submit time. Or the map template could contain the js necessary to update the for var on the controls page itself.

There may be a way to do it without javascript by having the first mapserver call generate a page with a frameset in it which in turn calls the mapserver to generate each of the frame components
but I'm not sure it's worth the effort. If your using the other supporting images (i.e. scalebar, legend and reference map) in the controls frame than you may have to do it this way.

Steve

<<< Morgan Covill <bosshogg at bitstream.net>  2/22  1:48p >>>
Hi,
I have started to play with the mapserv demo and would like to be able make
a template that uses frames and have the image template in a seperate frame
from the legend/submit form. Any suggestions ? 
Thanks in advance
Morgan



From sl57k at cc.usu.edu  Wed Feb 23 12:28:05 2000
From: sl57k at cc.usu.edu (Jason Maestri)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 13:28:05 -0700
Subject: Querymap Object...
Message-ID: <38B442D5.6836BDAD@cc.usu.edu>

Hey guys,
    I am still plunking away at the design document for a graphical
mapfile editor.  I have, however, not been able to find a list of the
available options for the querymap object.  The provided documentation
is very sparse here.  Can anybody tell me what options there are?

Thanks,
    Jason Maestri



From danmo at videotron.ca  Wed Feb 23 13:28:03 2000
From: danmo at videotron.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 16:28:03 -0500
Subject: MapServer and geocoding
Message-ID: <38B450E3.36EB0FE5@videotron.ca>

MapServer users,

Has anyone ever used the MapServer for an application that needed to do
geocoding (address matching) on the fly.  I don't think that MapServer
has any direct support for geocoding, does it?

Does anyone have recommendations for a library or package (OpenSource or
commercial) that would complement well MapServer and allow an
application to do geocoding on the fly (ideally something that runs on
Solaris).

Thanks,
-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette                       danmo at videotron.ca
              http://pages.infinit.net/danmo/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.


From peter.jacobs at vs42.nl  Wed Feb 23 16:36:12 2000
From: peter.jacobs at vs42.nl (Peter H.M. Jacobs)
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 01:36:12 +0100
Subject: what do the x-pixel size and y-pixel size mean in the file landstat.wdf
Message-ID: <NDBBKMPGELCFDJPOHAMEGENGCAAA.peter.jacobs@vs42.nl>

Hello,

I'm convinced that this is realy a stupid question, but can anyone explain
to me what the x-pixel size and y pixel size mean in the file landstat.wdf

It says

30 #x pixel size
0000.000 #rotation x-as
0000.000 #rotation y-as
-30 #y pixel size
44364345.3453 # left upper corner
23424.23234   # right upper corner

Regads

Peter



From Banister at BANISTER.COM  Wed Feb 23 16:47:56 2000
From: Banister at BANISTER.COM (Trevor Banister)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 17:47:56 -0700
Subject: what do the x-pixel size and y-pixel size mean in the file la
	ndstat.wdf
Message-ID: <51BFCC79A3CCD311A2DD0800362C8E031764@banister4.conen.net>

These look like UTM coords, so I think that means that each pixel is 30
meters in size?

Trevor

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter H.M. Jacobs [mailto:peter.jacobs at vs42.nl]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 5:36 PM
To: Mapserver-Users
Subject: what do the x-pixel size and y-pixel size mean in the file
landstat.wdf


Hello,

I'm convinced that this is realy a stupid question, but can anyone explain
to me what the x-pixel size and y pixel size mean in the file landstat.wdf

It says

30 #x pixel size
0000.000 #rotation x-as
0000.000 #rotation y-as
-30 #y pixel size
44364345.3453 # left upper corner
23424.23234   # right upper corner

Regads

Peter


From marin at here.is  Wed Feb 23 17:04:11 2000
From: marin at here.is (Ma)
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 01:04:11 +0000
Subject: what do the x-pixel size and y-pixel size mean in the file 
 landstat.wdf
References: <NDBBKMPGELCFDJPOHAMEGENGCAAA.peter.jacobs@vs42.nl>
Message-ID: <38B48389.9E115A33@here.is>

The answer:
http://www.esri.com/usersupport/support/faq/arcview/01general/404_750.html

--
Ma


"Peter H.M. Jacobs" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm convinced that this is realy a stupid question, but can anyone explain
> to me what the x-pixel size and y pixel size mean in the file landstat.wdf
>
> It says
>
> 30 #x pixel size
> 0000.000 #rotation x-as
> 0000.000 #rotation y-as
> -30 #y pixel size
> 44364345.3453 # left upper corner
> 23424.23234   # right upper corner
>
> Regads
>
> Peter



From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Wed Feb 23 20:41:18 2000
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 22:41:18 -0600
Subject: MapServer and geocoding
Message-ID: <s8b4621c.027@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>

Nope, no geocoder. It's as much a data problem as a software problem. It probably isn't that hard to write one if you really understand the process. However, you need a decent set of databases to match against and that ain't cheap. About the only freebie dataset I know of is Tiger. others on the list can speak to its suitability.

If you can kick out a coordinate then the app can be integrated with mapserver. A OpenSource geocoder based on free data would be very cool indeed.

Steve

<<< Daniel Morissette <danmo at videotron.ca>  2/23  3:56p >>>
MapServer users,

Has anyone ever used the MapServer for an application that needed to do
geocoding (address matching) on the fly.  I don't think that MapServer
has any direct support for geocoding, does it?

Does anyone have recommendations for a library or package (OpenSource or
commercial) that would complement well MapServer and allow an
application to do geocoding on the fly (ideally something that runs on
Solaris).

Thanks,
-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette                       danmo at videotron.ca
              http://pages.infinit.net/danmo/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.



From imap at chesapeake.net  Wed Feb 23 22:55:02 2000
From: imap at chesapeake.net (imap at chesapeake.net)
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 01:55:02 -0500
Subject: MapServer and geocoding
References: <s8b4621c.027@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>
Message-ID: <38B4D5C6.20046A2D@chesapeake.net>


Daniel,

I see a .ca domain.  Are you looking for a Canadian or US geocoder?  

TIGER data is US only. I'll comment on the suitability issue of that data.
The newer Tiger '98 data (and also '97 data) are poorly coded for mapping
purposes. 
The feature classifications CFCC that you would use to distinguish
Interstates,
US Hwy and State Hwy. etc are miscoded in many instances.  I work for the
people
who produce the data and I can't even get them to acknowlege the problem, but
it
does exist.  Their use of the data is limited to black and white paper maps,
single
width, so they really dont see the problem.  It *IS* however or pretty good
quality for geocoding purposes.  The '98 version is much improved in the
address
range department, but there are still alot of missing ranges.  Expect to get
a 80% hit ratio.  It is very good in urban areas, and worst in rural areas.
To improve the hit ratio, you need to supplement the tiger vector data with
the USPS ZIP4 and TIGER/ZIP+4 datasets to derive an interpolation that is
slightly less accurate, but very close to being exact.

Here is the real issue...  If you preserve all of the Tiger attributes in
Shapefile format, you will end up with a *huge* dataset.  Expect to occupy
about 25GB with all of the data that you will need for mapping and geocoding
with Tiger Shapefiles (all layers).  If you add the USPS ZIP4 and TIGER/ZIP4
datasets, that eats up another 5-6GB, and that puts you in the 30GB range.
You may be able to reduce this slightly, if you whack out some of the
.DBF attribute data.

The commercial geocoders (MapInfo MapMarker for example), they somehow crunch
all of that data onto 2 cdroms which is great, but the software costs you
$9000 annually to run (and it is WinNT).  

My company sells a geocoder which uses a binary version of Tiger that is
5.6GB for the entire US.  Still big data, but that data isnt suitable 
for use with mapserv.  We actually have our own map engine that uses that 
same data format.  This software is however, significantly cheaper,
cost is $995 for the geocoder and the Tiger Binary data is $175/region
or $1500 for the entire US (there are 10 region/cdroms total).  Also,
it will run on any unix platforms + WinNT.  

If you *really* wanted a geocoder that uses ESRI shapefiles, I am
confident that I could build one of those in about a week at a
cost of $3000.  I'd propose the deliverable to you would be the
Tiger '98 dataset (you choose the layers you want) suitable for 
mapping and geocoding purposes, a unix/solaris version of the 
geocoding engine.  I'd retain the rights to the source code, but 
grant your company an unlimited use license of the finished product.  
That would NOT include the USPS ZIP+4 stuff.  I think there are some 
licensing/resell issues with that data.  If you are interested in 
having me port this, just fax me a purchase order and I'll get busy.

Just in case you are wondering..  Our current geocoder is a
command line program that generates expanded or terse/brief
output.  The engine is modelled after the Etak Eagle Geocoder
client for compatibility reasons input is:  address|city|state|zip
The city AND state *OR* Zip is required.  If one or the other
is missing, it will still resolve.  See the
sample output as follows:

[cstuber at imap /geocoder1.2]$ geocoder
Enter address as: street|city|state|zip (^D quits)
-->5390 Sea Isle Rd|Memphis|TN|
Std. Primary House Number:      <5390>
Std. Matching Street Name:      <Sea Isle>
Std. Suffix Type:               <Road>
***
Match Count     <1>
Match Type      <1>
Match DB        <T>

Match Addr      <5390 SEA ISLE ROAD>
Match City      <MEMPHIS>
Match State     <TN>
Match Zip       <38119>
Match St FIPS   <47>
Match Cty FIPS  <157>
Match Lat       <35.09421>
Match Lon       <-89.88207>

The terse (line) mode (input line is 5390 Sea Isle|||38119)

[cstuber at imap /geocoder1.2]$ geocoder -l
MatCnt|MatType|MatDB|MatAddr|MatCity|MatState|MatZip|MatSFIPS|MatCFIPS|MatLat|MatLon|Pop|Elev|
5390 Sea Isle|||38119
1|1|T|5390 SEA ISLE ROAD|MEMPHIS|TN|38119|47|157|35.09421|-89.88207|||

Redirection of both input/output is supported, so you can geocode in
batch mode.   One side note about porting this to use Shapefiles...
If you data were Shapefiles were pre-projected, your returned lat/lon 
would be in the projected map coordinates.   


Regards,

Chris Stuber (mapsurfer)
Silicon Mapping Solutions, Inc.
PO Box 741
Owings, MD  20736

w 410-257-3187
f 410-257-1978


Stephen Lime wrote:
> 
> Nope, no geocoder. It's as much a data problem as a software problem. It probably isn't that hard to write one if you really understand the process. However, you need a decent set of databases to match against and that ain't cheap. About the only freebie dataset I know of is Tiger. others on the list can speak to its suitability.
> 
> If you can kick out a coordinate then the app can be integrated with mapserver. A OpenSource geocoder based on free data would be very cool indeed.
> 
> Steve
> 
> <<< Daniel Morissette <danmo at videotron.ca>  2/23  3:56p >>>
> MapServer users,
> 
> Has anyone ever used the MapServer for an application that needed to do
> geocoding (address matching) on the fly.  I don't think that MapServer
> has any direct support for geocoding, does it?
> 
> Does anyone have recommendations for a library or package (OpenSource or
> commercial) that would complement well MapServer and allow an
> application to do geocoding on the fly (ideally something that runs on
> Solaris).
> 
> Thanks,
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>  Daniel Morissette                       danmo at videotron.ca
>               http://pages.infinit.net/danmo/
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>   Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if
>       you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.

-- 

Chris Stuber (mapsurfer)
Silicon Mapping Solutions, Inc.
410-257-3187


From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Thu Feb 24 07:12:51 2000
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 09:12:51 -0600
Subject: Fwd: Find Helps
Message-ID: <s8b4f62f.067@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>

If anyone is interested in helping this guy...
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From pnaciona at gis.umn.edu  Thu Feb 24 11:37:08 2000
From: pnaciona at gis.umn.edu (Pericles S. Nacionales)
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 13:37:08 -0600
Subject: Find Helps
References: <20000224142638.4402.qmail@hotmail.com>
Message-ID: <004701bf7efe$89f21580$9a496580@gis.umn.edu>

Hi, Eric

  Let's see...  If you really want to work on Windows NT you probably should think about compiling MapServer for yourself.  That said, there is a compiled binary available from the the MapServer site.  This is probably what you would want to do initially.
  I assume you know about web servers already.  If not, then you need to install a web server on your computer--a couple of free ones:  Microsoft IIS (free to use) and Apache.org's Apache server (free to use and modify code).  You'll need to copy the MapServer executable to your web server's cgi-bin directory.  From there you can start using MapServer.
  Now, you also would want to download the symbol files and put it somewhere--doesn't have to be a web accesible directory.  Now my suggestion would be to download the MapServer demo and get it to work on your server.  If you would like to see the demo running on Windows NT, check http://128.101.73.80/mapserv/demo_init.html.
  You can also look at http://128.101.73.154/projects/tutorial to get started on MapServer--this site is also running on Windows NT.  It works fairly well except for the last example (prblems with the java applet).
  Well this should keep you busy for a while.  If you have more questions send it to the mapserver-users list.  One final thing, MapServer on NT hasn't really been rigorously tested and isn't considered to be as stable as the ports on UNIX systems.  Hopefully, it will work just fine for what you want to do.

Good luck!

-Perry N.

Pericles S. Nacionales
Research Assistant
Department of Forest Resources
University of Minnesota

pnaciona at gis.umn.edu
(612) 625 5765
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rappa 
  To: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 8:07 AM
  Subject: Find Helps


  Hi Steve,

  Nice to meet you! I am a new user of mapserver, I come from Hong Kong, studing GIS and I am a final year student. I want to make a network model and put it in the web. I saw mapserver can free for develop web map, that great. But I have a big problem, that I have no more experience in programming. Actually I really want to make a web map for my project.

  I using arcview 3.2, and network anaylst for my gis system. Also the server I prefer WinNT4.0 than the Unix.

  Now I looking someone can carry me to make a web map server. I will appreciate more, if anyone can help.

  Thanks a lot,
  Eric Tang
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From pnaciona at gis.umn.edu  Thu Feb 24 11:55:20 2000
From: pnaciona at gis.umn.edu (Pericles S. Nacionales)
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 13:55:20 -0600
Subject: Find Helps
References: <20000224142638.4402.qmail@hotmail.com> <004701bf7efe$89f21580$9a496580@gis.umn.edu>
Message-ID: <001e01bf7f01$14bd2c20$9a496580@gis.umn.edu>

Eric and other NT MapServer users out there:
  You can download the MapServer demo for NT from
http://128.101.73.80/ms_demo/ms_demo.zip.  I decided not to attach it to
this mail as it is fairly sizable (1.7 MB).

-Perry Nacionales

----- Original Message -----
From: Pericles S. Nacionales
To: mapserver-users at lists ; Rappa
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: Find Helps


Hi, Eric

  Let's see...  If you really want to work on Windows NT you probably should
think about compiling MapServer for yourself.  That said, there is a
compiled binary available from the the MapServer site.  This is probably
what you would want to do initially.
  I assume you know about web servers already.  If not, then you need to
install a web server on your computer--a couple of free ones:  Microsoft IIS
(free to use) and Apache.org's Apache server (free to use and modify code).
You'll need to copy the MapServer executable to your web server's cgi-bin
directory.  From there you can start using MapServer.
  Now, you also would want to download the symbol files and put it
somewhere--doesn't have to be a web accesible directory.  Now my suggestion
would be to download the MapServer demo and get it to work on your server.
If you would like to see the demo running on Windows NT, check
http://128.101.73.80/mapserv/demo_init.html.
  You can also look at http://128.101.73.154/projects/tutorial to get
started on MapServer--this site is also running on Windows NT.  It works
fairly well except for the last example (prblems with the java applet).
  Well this should keep you busy for a while.  If you have more questions
send it to the mapserver-users list.  One final thing, MapServer on NT
hasn't really been rigorously tested and isn't considered to be as stable as
the ports on UNIX systems.  Hopefully, it will work just fine for what you
want to do.

Good luck!

-Perry N.

Pericles S. Nacionales
Research Assistant
Department of Forest Resources
University of Minnesota

pnaciona at gis.umn.edu
(612) 625 5765
----- Original Message -----
From: Rappa
To: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 8:07 AM
Subject: Find Helps


Hi Steve,

Nice to meet you! I am a new user of mapserver, I come from Hong Kong,
studing GIS and I am a final year student. I want to make a network model
and put it in the web. I saw mapserver can free for develop web map, that
great. But I have a big problem, that I have no more experience in
programming. Actually I really want to make a web map for my project.

I using arcview 3.2, and network anaylst for my gis system. Also the server
I prefer WinNT4.0 than the Unix.

Now I looking someone can carry me to make a web map server. I will
appreciate more, if anyone can help.

Thanks a lot,
Eric Tang




From danmo at videotron.ca  Thu Feb 24 13:15:01 2000
From: danmo at videotron.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 16:15:01 -0500
Subject: MapServer and geocoding
References: <38B450E3.36EB0FE5@videotron.ca>
Message-ID: <38B59F55.ED578829@videotron.ca>

Daniel Morissette wrote:
> 
> MapServer users,
> 
> Has anyone ever used the MapServer for an application that needed to do
> geocoding (address matching) on the fly.  I don't think that MapServer
> has any direct support for geocoding, does it?
> 
> Does anyone have recommendations for a library or package (OpenSource or
> commercial) that would complement well MapServer and allow an
> application to do geocoding on the fly (ideally something that runs on
> Solaris).
>

Thanks to everyone who replied to my question about geocoding and
MapServer.

We need to work with Canadian data, so the US solutions can't be applied
directly to our case.  However for those who might be interested, we
found a package that might be interesting for Canadian users:
	http://www.desktopmapping.com/GeoPinpoint.html

Also, it is not excluded that we might one day develop something and
provide it as a freely available package.  Of course, there would still
be an issue with access to the data (for Canada) though.

Thanks again!
-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette                       danmo at videotron.ca
              http://pages.infinit.net/danmo/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.



From pcedfeldt at crrel.usace.army.mil  Fri Feb 25 06:02:27 2000
From: pcedfeldt at crrel.usace.army.mil (Paul Cedfeldt)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:02:27 -0500
Subject: join - memo fields
Message-ID: <38B68B73.EE24F777@crrel.usace.army.mil>

Hi All,

I haven't had any luck getting memo fields from a joined dbf to
display.  Does the join object support memo fields?   Thanks.

-Paul


From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Fri Feb 25 06:14:24 2000
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 08:14:24 -0600
Subject: join - memo fields
Message-ID: <s8b639f9.029@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>

Nope, the shapelib xbase library doesn't support memo fields. Neither does the shapefile spec. Memo fields are a FoxPro thing and not strictly xbase.

steve.

<<< Paul Cedfeldt <pcedfeldt at crrel.usace.army.mil>  2/25  8:03a >>>
Hi All,

I haven't had any luck getting memo fields from a joined dbf to
display.  Does the join object support memo fields?   Thanks.

-Paul



From RAldridge at linuxstart.com  Mon Feb 28 09:01:13 2000
From: RAldridge at linuxstart.com (RAldridge)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:01:13 -0800
Subject: Problems using tiled data
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From joel at free.crrel.usace.army.mil  Mon Feb 28 09:17:57 2000
From: joel at free.crrel.usace.army.mil (Joel Schlagel)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 12:17:57 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Problems using tiled data
In-Reply-To: <200002281701.JAA21155@ns1.filetron.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002281216470.2970-100000@free.crrel.usace.army.mil>



The key word is TILEINDEX, rather than TILE

joel



On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, RAldridge wrote:

> I need help setting up my map file to use tiled data from an NFS source.  My shapefiles are stored on NT in an NFS shared folder.  The folder is mapped as "/gdata" on my linux box.  The folder contains two subfolders; "County_Data" and "Statewide_Data."  I can map individual shapefiles in my .map file fine.  There is a shapefile containing the outlines of the counties at "/gdata/Statewide_Data/counties.shp" which has a field called LOCATION.  The "/gdata/County_Data" folder contains a folder for each county.  Each county's folder contains shapefiles for several data layers.  My .map file contains the following, but I get "loadLayer(): Unknown identifier. (INDEX):(99)" when I try to use it.  Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> #
> # Start of map file
> #
> NAME DEMO
> STATUS ON
> SIZE 350 500
> SHADESET symbols/shade.sym
> MARKERSET symbols/marker.sym
> LINESET symbols/line.sym
> EXTENT -93.00 29.00 -86.00 36.00
> #EXTENT 254189.000000 1117801.000000 292781.000000 1151833.000000
> UNITS DD 
> TILE "/gdata/Statewide_Data/"
> SHAPEPATH "/gdata/Statewide_Data"
> IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
> 



From bfischer at usgs.gov  Mon Feb 28 14:30:02 2000
From: bfischer at usgs.gov (bfischer at usgs.gov)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:30:02 -0600
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <OFB2BCBD6D.E60AD28B-ON86256893.007B5318@cr.usgs.gov>

Hi Everyone,

     Does anyone have a compiled version of the sym2img utility for NT?  If
so, could you possibly email it to me.  I do not have a compiler for the
NT.

Thanks,
Brian Fischer
bfischer at usgs.gov
USGS WRD
2280 Woodale Dr.
Mounds View, MN
(612) 783-3133




From danmo at videotron.ca  Mon Feb 28 15:04:18 2000
From: danmo at videotron.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:04:18 -0500
Subject: sym2img.exe
References: <OFB2BCBD6D.E60AD28B-ON86256893.007B5318@cr.usgs.gov>
Message-ID: <38BAFEF2.9547636F@videotron.ca>

bfischer at usgs.gov wrote:
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
>      Does anyone have a compiled version of the sym2img utility for NT?  If
> so, could you possibly email it to me.  I do not have a compiler for the
> NT.
> 

Brian,

You can download a copy of sym2img.exe from:

	http://owt.tzo.com/tmp/sym2img.exe

And for others who might be interested, I also made availabe a copy of
all the MapServer executables (version 3.3.006) at the URL:

	http://owt.tzo.com/tmp/ms_3.3.006_win32.zip

Note that these executrables have not been tested much, and the
mapserv.exe in there does not include any optional component (no PROJ.4,
no TIFF, etc...), only basic shapefile and gif support.

I could build a newer version (V3.3.008) if anyone needs it.

Regards,
-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette                       danmo at videotron.ca
              http://pages.infinit.net/danmo/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.


From danmo at videotron.ca  Mon Feb 28 15:06:23 2000
From: danmo at videotron.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:06:23 -0500
Subject: sym2img.exe
References: <OFB2BCBD6D.E60AD28B-ON86256893.007B5318@cr.usgs.gov> <38BAFEF2.9547636F@videotron.ca>
Message-ID: <38BAFF6F.15D2D692@videotron.ca>

Daniel Morissette wrote:
> 
> I could build a newer version (V3.3.008) if anyone needs it.
> 

OOPppss... I guess I should have written Version 3.3.007 since 3.3.008
is not out yet!  ;-)
-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette                       danmo at videotron.ca
              http://pages.infinit.net/danmo/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.


From marcjacquin at yahoo.com  Mon Feb 28 23:54:27 2000
From: marcjacquin at yahoo.com (Marc JACQUIN)
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 01:54:27 -0600
Subject: Polygon topology and map file generation
Message-ID: <000801bf828a$3373fb80$ca00000a@pcpmj>

Hi MapServer guys,

I am enjoying MapServer (3.2) using it at C/C++ function level. For going further on, I am looking for algorithms (serious) for building polygons (Arcview style) from Polylines and/or Polygons sets. My searches on the web did not return anything reliable. I know the basics but it's a pain in ...

What I do is pure CGI in C/C++ using map file to GIF (PNG soon maybe) functions to generate the map. It is flexible ! So, for improving, I would like to know if someone has a set of functions or a library for generating map files (not parsing !). I am thinking about doing it but if someone did it before ...

Then something positive : some of you may not know the GD has been ported in Perl and Tcl.
See http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/cgi/ch06_03.html and follow Utilities and Applications link.

Things are running (Grrreat !) with Steve's stuff on NT but not in the standard configuration of MapServer. I added the Tiff lib and plan to use Proj4 soon. May help on NT !

Marc



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From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Tue Feb 29 12:16:20 2000
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 14:16:20 -0600
Subject: Web Server Error
Message-ID: <s8bbd4c1.072@gwgate.dnr.state.mn.us>

Did you experience this with 3.3.006? Me thinks 3.3.007 has a memory
problem although I thought it was only associated with certain types of
queries. Does the image to included in the template get created before
the sucker hangs/crashes. It's got to be something stupid with template
processing, query or otherwise. I'd back up to 3.3.006 until 3.3.008 is
out later this week. I doubt it's anything you've done as much as I love 
to shift the blame.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

Minnesota DNR
500 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155
651-297-2937

>>> Corey A Sundahl <csundahl at osf1.gmu.edu> 02/29/00 01:52PM >>>
Hello all.  I've dug through the mailing list archives but I haven't seen
anyone experience this rather unique problem.   The problem is that when I
try to generate my template using shapefiles and passing the mode
parameter of 'browse' via my html file I get a server error when I use the
correct extents.  However, if I change the extents so that they are
obviously incorrect, I get the infamous white image but an otherwise good
template.  Now, if I use the correct extents and pass the mode parameter
'map' I can generate the map just fine but not my template. Furthermore, I
ran the shp2img utility and everything ran just fine - .gif is as it
should be.  I'm using all the updated .sym files that come with 3.3007 and
the updated .map file with tailored paths and extents.  Any hints at to
why I'm getting a server error would be very much appreciated.  Oh, I
almost forgot -- When mapserver is run via the command line I get a
segmentation fault after about 45 seconds of churning.  I've kept all
names under 20 characters and I'm using actual, not relative paths to all
directories.  All this is running on Solaris and all other web
applications are running as normal without a hitch.  Any ideas?

Thanks,\

Corey