georeferencing the gif image

[Pericles S. Nacionales]

Wangyal,

In ArcView, you can get the extent of a reference map by clicking on "View",
then "Properties".  Once you're in the "View Properties" window, select the
"Area of Interest" button--this will give you another window.  From the new
window, select "Display" from the "Set AOI to:" drop-down box--this will
give you the extent of the currently displayed view.  The EXTENT values go
"LEFT BOTTOM RIGHT TOP"

You can then export the current display (view) as either WMF or JPEG, then
resize and save as GIF (or PNG) to be used as reference map.

Good luck!
-Perry N.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tsering Wangyal Shawa" <shawatw at Princeton.EDU>
To: "MAPSERVER" <mapserver-users at lists>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 4:43 PM
Subject: georeferencing the gif image


> Now that I managed to run demo version of Mapserver. I am trying to create
> mapserver with my own data set. I want to know, what is the best way to
> create a georeference gif image file for backgroup (reference) map.
>
> This is what I did: I open a map in ArcView and saved that map in a jpg
> format before I saved the file I collected a general georeference info
from
> the map. After the image was saved in jpg I open that image in photoshop
> and saved again in gif format. I used this gif image as reference image
and
> used georeference info that I collected the original  map (before I saved
> it as jpg image) on REFERENCE EXTENT. But this is not working. I can not
> overlay any thing on the map once I open it in the mapserver. What is the
> problem and how to fix it.
>
> I try to use tif map with georeference info as reference map but it did
not
> worked.
>
> Thank you advance for your help.
>
> -Wangyal
>