From mark.wilson at rohoel.at  Wed Aug  1 00:05:10 2001
From: mark.wilson at rohoel.at (mark.wilson at rohoel.at)
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 09:05:10 +0200
Subject: [mapserver-users] MapServer WorkBench
Message-ID: <C1256A9B.0026ED1F.00@ragln01.rohoel.at>



I assume MapServer WorkBench only works if you run it locally??  I know nothing
about tcl/tk but I vaguely recall that there was/is some sort of related browser
plugin for tcl. Would that offer any possibilities for running Mapserver
workbench remotely?

Mark W.




From mcilhagga at dmsolutions.ca  Wed Aug  1 05:55:31 2001
From: mcilhagga at dmsolutions.ca (Dave McIlhagga)
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 08:55:31 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] MapServer WorkBench
References: <C1256A9B.0026ED1F.00@ragln01.rohoel.at>
Message-ID: <3B67FC43.AB444844@dmsolutions.ca>

Mark,

We are just completing development of a web-based equivalent to the
MapServer WorkBench that should be released to the MapServer community
in about 3 weeks time.  It is a JavaScript/HTML frontend with a Java
Servlet running in the background.  It provides complete access to all
Map File elements.

Much more information will be made available regarding the application
through August.

Dave



mark.wilson at rohoel.at wrote:
> 
> I assume MapServer WorkBench only works if you run it locally??  I know nothing
> about tcl/tk but I vaguely recall that there was/is some sort of related browser
> plugin for tcl. Would that offer any possibilities for running Mapserver
> workbench remotely?
> 
> Mark W.

-- 
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From tpoindex at nyx.net  Wed Aug  1 07:22:09 2001
From: tpoindex at nyx.net (Tom Poindexter)
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 08:22:09 -0600
Subject: [mapserver-users] MapServer WorkBench
In-Reply-To: <C1256A9B.0026ED1F.00@ragln01.rohoel.at>; from mark.wilson@rohoel.at on Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 09:05:10AM +0200
References: <C1256A9B.0026ED1F.00@ragln01.rohoel.at>
Message-ID: <20010801082209.A2806@nyx10.nyx.net>

On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 09:05:10AM +0200, mark.wilson at rohoel.at wrote:
> 
> I assume MapServer WorkBench only works if you run it locally??  I know nothing
> about tcl/tk but I vaguely recall that there was/is some sort of related browser
> plugin for tcl. Would that offer any possibilities for running Mapserver
> workbench remotely?


Yes, currently MapServer Workbench runs on your local machine.  Yes, there
is a Tcl/Tk plug-in that allows Tcl programs to be run in Netscape or
IE.  However, there are a few problems with this approach and the
Workbench.  First, the workbench programs need the Mapscript/Tcl extension
for operation (the editor can work without it.)  Running extension in
the plug-in take a little more work, you have to set your Tcl plug-in's
policy file to be able to load this extension.  The second problem is that
the Workbench programs expect to read and write to local files, again a
policy setting.  Of course, with some work, these problems can be addressed.

I don't have any immediate plans for remote operation, but I'll keep it
in mind.

-- 
Tom Poindexter
tpoindex at nyx.net
http://www.nyx.net/~tpoindex/


From teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu  Wed Aug  1 07:50:14 2001
From: teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu (teb)
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 09:50:14 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] Shapefile Polygon problem (fwd)
Message-ID: <200108011450.JAA23209@mallit.fr.umn.edu>


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Subject: Shapefile Polygon problem
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Hello all,
 
I am a new Mapserver user and I am trying to display my own 
shapefiles. I have tried a dummy polygon (four sides), which 
worked fine and displayed in the browser.
However, when I try to load more complex shapefiles, I get the 
following message:
 
msDrawShapefileLayer(): General error message. POLYGON layers 
must be POLYGON shapefiles. 
 
This occurs on every one of my own shape files which were created 
in MapInfo and then translated into ESRI shape. I have checked 
the shapefiles in ArcView and all
objects are correct according to the syntax I have used in the 
Map File. For example if I have a Polyline layer, all objects in 
my shapefile are polylines; if I have a POLYGON
layer, all objects in my shapefile are polygons. This message 
occurs every time I try to load one of my shapefiles - even when 
I am trying to load a POLYLINE layer! 
 
Please could someone shed some light on this, as I am completely 
stumped! Thanks for your time,
 
Rob
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From spaske at kapur-assoc.com  Wed Aug  1 08:22:55 2001
From: spaske at kapur-assoc.com (Sam Paske)
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:22:55 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] msDrawRaster TileIndex TileItem Location HELP!
In-Reply-To: <13858AA1A74F30419F319ACB66A9D122019146@mercator.topozone.com>
Message-ID: <NDBBIKEEOKFKFIOMGHHLAEBGDFAA.spaske@kapur-assoc.com>

Ed,

Thanks for the clarification. It *really* does help one understand how
things work if you can understand the underlying phylosophy. The part of
this that I am most hazy on is where the IUSR_* stops and where the SYSTEM
account starts.

For example, some mapserver users are using the cgi version, which is fairly
straightforward in that the cgi is invoked to execute with IUSR_*
permissions. (At least that's how I understand it....) But other users are
putting together more complicated servers where scripting hosts are
executing. I confess thatI have very little knowledge of how, for instance,
IIS->perl->IIS actually works. I believe the cgi version spawns a unique
process for every map session (or request). But I don't understand how the
scripting modules plug into IIS - are they running as a service, or are they
invoked like the cgi version. The implication, in effect, would be that you
would have a fairly priviledged user hitting the web server if the scripting
module was running as more than IUSR_*.

I have a little experience with Cold Fusion (CF), and I know that CF must
run as SYSTEM or some equivalent. So it is possible to mix security contexts
with IIS. (The saving factor is that CF manages it's own security by only
accepting page requests that are "ok" with IIS and by not allowing things
like access to the directory structure unless specifically permitted.)

Getting back to the issue, I noticed that another user thought the problem
might be with the path to the files. Has anyone tried to use a microsoft
Distributed File System? From what I understand, it could be an alternative
if you are using NT4/2000.

Finally, there is a way for a user to access files on a remote machine and
_not_ be a member of the domain. The key is that the "user" must exist on
both machines and must have the same name and password. For example, if I
want an anonymous web user (accessing IIS on the machine named
"terramapper") to be able to see files on John Doe's computer (named
"hal9000" let's say) I would need to have the anonymous web user use an
account with a static name and password. So I create a local account called
INETUSER and give it a password of "password" (couldn't resist). I do this
on BOTH machines. I then have IIS use that account (technically
INETUSER/TERRAMAPPER), and set the permissions of the web so that INETUSER
can read the necesary files. I then go over to hal9000 and give INETUSER
(technically INETUSER/HAL9000) the right to see a few shape files and
directories. (I make sure that the files are not under My Documents for
reasons I won't go into.) Then, paths and drive mapping aside, the IIS user
should have the ability to see the remote files.

Hope I didn't confuse the issue!

Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed McNierney [mailto:ed at topozone.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 7:11 PM
To: Sam Paske; Hankley, Chip
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] msDrawRaster TileIndex TileItem Location
HELP!


Sam et al. -

I think I covered a lot of this with my previous post, but there seems
to be enough interest to warrant some clarification.  I've worked with
both Windows and UNIX networks for a long time, and I don't find either
particularly hard to manage or easy to manage, but they're certainly
different.  It's really worth spending some time understanding the
philosophy behind Windows networking before you expose your network
assets to the world.

One of the fundamental precepts of Windows NT/2000 security is that
EVERY access to every resource on every system is done through a
security context.  For most purposes, it's simple enough to think of
this as a user context or user login.  For every operation there is
always the notion of an authenticated user context.  In particular, the
comment "This user is considered anonymous and has not authenticated in
any way" is correct from a Web site security point of view (no dialog
box popped up when someone tried to access your Web page) but it is
completely incorrect from a Windows networking point of view.

When a Web site developer tells IIS to permit anonymous access to a Web
site, or to a page on a site, Windows basically says "OK, since all
those Web users look the same to me, and they haven't logged in
anywhere, YOU give me a valid user account and password for them to
use."  This is the role served, by default, by the IUSR_<machinename>
account.  You can change that to any account you like, but obviously all
Web visitors use the same account because there's no way to tell them
apart.

Although (as someone mentioned) the Web server itself (IIS) is running
under the local SYSTEM account, it impersonates the IUSR_<machinename>
account for all access to files and other resources.  This includes
every single file, even if your Web server is doing nothing but serving
one, simple HTML file.  The IUSR_<machinename> account must have Read
access to that file.

Windows networking supports local machine accounts and domain accounts.
Local machine accounts can ONLY have access to resources on their local
machine.  Domain accounts can use resources on any machine on the
network, provided they are granted access rights to those resources.

You CAN'T sit down at machine FOO and set the permissions on a file to
give BAR\IUSR_BAR Read access to that file.  (BAR\IUSR_BAR means the
local account IUSR_BAR on the MACHINE named BAR.)  If FOO and BAR are
members of a domain named BAZ, then you can grant access (on FOO) to any
domain account (BAZ\Guest or BAZ\Administrator or anything).

If you want IIS to grant an anonymous Web visitor rights to read any
file that's not on the local IIS machine, you MUST change IIS' default
(and conservative) setting and assign a domain user account for it to
use.  You can then set the access rights on any file or other resource
to grant that domain user account access.  That machine must have access
to a domain controller so the IIS login account can be authenticated
when the first anonymous access occurs.

Always create an account that is used only for this purpose; don't share
another account.  Always realize that this account can potentially have
access to any resource on your network, so be careful.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Paske [mailto:spaske at kapur-assoc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 5:32 PM
To: Hankley, Chip
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] msDrawRaster TileIndex TileItem Location
HELP!


I remember wrestling with user priviledge issues when I first set up a
mapserver site. I went around the issue a few times trying to get the
cgi to
work, yet restrict access to the map file (because that file contains
drive
and data path information, which could help compromise a server...).

The user accessing the content, if coming from the internet, should be
IUSR_* (the * could be a computer name or something else). This user is
considered anonymous and has not authenticated in any way. Check your
IIS
directory security properties and see how your users are authenticating
-
you could be allowing a range of users to log on, from anonymous to
domain
authenticated.

The domain of this user will most likely not be the domain(s) in which
the
machine is a member, but the machine name itself. In other words, IUSR_*
is
not a member of any domain. This is how our Win2000 server works. So if
you
want an internet user to have access to a file, you must explicitly
grant
IUSR_* access to the file, but that could be complicated if the file is
on
another machine in the domain. That machine may require _authorized_
(and
authentic) users to be members of the domain, and that would not be a
good
idea for the anonymous internet account.

Of course, this all depends on what user is accessing the file. Perhaps
the
anonymous user is not actually accessing the data files - the server
software is. If the server software is accessing a file as admin (or
similar), can it access the domain? I doubt it, because it is running
under
a local account, not a domain account. There are Microsoft protocols
that
can be used to access/execute files on other machines, but I am not too
familiar with them.

That is the extent of my Windows knowledge, and our guru is gone for the
day. (And not because windows networks are sooo easy to administer....
:)

Sam Paske
Kapur AGS



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
[mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu]On Behalf Of Hankley,
Chip
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:54 PM
To: 'Richard Greenwood'; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] msDrawRaster TileIndex TileItem Location
HELP!


Richard and I are having the same problem I think...

I'm beginning to think that on NT, your data HAS to be on a local
drive....

Lowell wrote:
 >You might try dumping a simple shapefile over on the share and adding
it
as
 >a layer in your .map file.  Just to see if things on that level work.

I tried this yesterday and got the same results. I used a map file with
one
simple polygon layer. Did it local, worked fine, on a share, didnt'
work.

 >Have you tried blowing open the privs just to see if that fixes it?

This is possible, does anyone know what USER IIS or PWS acts as on NT?
Does
it take on the credentials of whoever is logged in, or is it something
more
obsure, like %SYSTEM?

Man, if anyone knows the definitive answer to this, please speak up!
This
has some significant ramifications for how I deploy some applications,
and
I'm totally stuck.

Chip Hankley



From pnaciona at gis.umn.edu  Wed Aug  1 11:41:39 2001
From: pnaciona at gis.umn.edu (Pericles S. Nacionales)
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 13:41:39 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] msDrawRaster TileIndex TileItem Location
In-Reply-To: <EFEDJNCHKJMNHPFIBHJDOEEBCBAA.pnaciona@gis.umn.edu>
Message-ID: <EFEDJNCHKJMNHPFIBHJDIEECCBAA.pnaciona@gis.umn.edu>

Richard, et al.

To get back on the original question, the reason it doesn't work is because
the network drive isn't mapped when MapServer makes the read request.  You
probably need to find a way to map drives while running as a service.  The
web server itself can't help you here because it's MapServer that actually
reads the file.

I suppose you can write a script that maps a network path to your local
machine, and that can run as an NT service.  Chances are you'll need a user
that can login as a service to do this.  Could be more  of a hassle with
security issues.  You can try though, and I would like to hear what happens.

Good luck!
Perry N.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mapserver-users at lists [mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists]On
Behalf Of Richard Greenwood
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 5:14 PM
To: mapserver-users at lists
Subject: [mapserver-users] msDrawRaster TileIndex TileItem Location


Hello All,

I am on an NT machine and I can't seem get my TileIndex to work when the
TileItem Location references a mapped network drive, or a UNC path. I get
an error:
     " msDrawRaster(): Unable to access file. "
But it works fine with a local drive letter. Anybody have any knowledge of
this problem?

Thanks,
Rich



Richard W. Greenwood, PLS
Greenwood Mapping, Inc.
Rich at GreenwoodMap.com
(307) 733-0203
http://www.GreenwoodMap.com



From ed at topozone.com  Wed Aug  1 11:57:10 2001
From: ed at topozone.com (Ed McNierney)
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 14:57:10 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] msDrawRaster TileIndex TileItem Location HELP!
Message-ID: <13858AA1A74F30419F319ACB66A9D122019147@mercator.topozone.com>

Sam -

The fact that IIS runs as a service under the SYSTEM account is
basically irrelevant.  For all practical purposes, for a Web site with
anonymous access, everything it does is under the security context of
the IUSR_<machinename> or equivalent account.

I have used MapServer with DFS mapped drives - it works fine.  It is,
however, subject to exactly the same security constraints.  It's well
worth looking into, because it offers a network-wide namespace
organization.  But it does not change the security constraints we've
been discussing here.

Your last point is interesting - and a little surprising.  Presumably
this is part of the reason the machinename is included by default in the
anonymous user account - to prevent such access.  I'll have to look into
that a bit more (BTW, Windows accounts are usually typed as <machine or
domain>\<username>, so your examples are HAL9000\INETUSER and
TERRAMAPPER\INETUSER).

	- Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Paske [mailto:spaske at kapur-assoc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 11:23 AM
To: Ed McNierney
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] msDrawRaster TileIndex TileItem Location
HELP!


Ed,

Thanks for the clarification. It *really* does help one understand how
things work if you can understand the underlying phylosophy. The part of
this that I am most hazy on is where the IUSR_* stops and where the
SYSTEM
account starts.

For example, some mapserver users are using the cgi version, which is
fairly
straightforward in that the cgi is invoked to execute with IUSR_*
permissions. (At least that's how I understand it....) But other users
are
putting together more complicated servers where scripting hosts are
executing. I confess thatI have very little knowledge of how, for
instance,
IIS->perl->IIS actually works. I believe the cgi version spawns a unique
process for every map session (or request). But I don't understand how
the
scripting modules plug into IIS - are they running as a service, or are
they
invoked like the cgi version. The implication, in effect, would be that
you
would have a fairly priviledged user hitting the web server if the
scripting
module was running as more than IUSR_*.

I have a little experience with Cold Fusion (CF), and I know that CF
must
run as SYSTEM or some equivalent. So it is possible to mix security
contexts
with IIS. (The saving factor is that CF manages it's own security by
only
accepting page requests that are "ok" with IIS and by not allowing
things
like access to the directory structure unless specifically permitted.)

Getting back to the issue, I noticed that another user thought the
problem
might be with the path to the files. Has anyone tried to use a microsoft
Distributed File System? From what I understand, it could be an
alternative
if you are using NT4/2000.

Finally, there is a way for a user to access files on a remote machine
and
_not_ be a member of the domain. The key is that the "user" must exist
on
both machines and must have the same name and password. For example, if
I
want an anonymous web user (accessing IIS on the machine named
"terramapper") to be able to see files on John Doe's computer (named
"hal9000" let's say) I would need to have the anonymous web user use an
account with a static name and password. So I create a local account
called
INETUSER and give it a password of "password" (couldn't resist). I do
this
on BOTH machines. I then have IIS use that account (technically
INETUSER/TERRAMAPPER), and set the permissions of the web so that
INETUSER
can read the necesary files. I then go over to hal9000 and give INETUSER
(technically INETUSER/HAL9000) the right to see a few shape files and
directories. (I make sure that the files are not under My Documents for
reasons I won't go into.) Then, paths and drive mapping aside, the IIS
user
should have the ability to see the remote files.

Hope I didn't confuse the issue!

Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed McNierney [mailto:ed at topozone.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 7:11 PM
To: Sam Paske; Hankley, Chip
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] msDrawRaster TileIndex TileItem Location
HELP!


Sam et al. -

I think I covered a lot of this with my previous post, but there seems
to be enough interest to warrant some clarification.  I've worked with
both Windows and UNIX networks for a long time, and I don't find either
particularly hard to manage or easy to manage, but they're certainly
different.  It's really worth spending some time understanding the
philosophy behind Windows networking before you expose your network
assets to the world.

One of the fundamental precepts of Windows NT/2000 security is that
EVERY access to every resource on every system is done through a
security context.  For most purposes, it's simple enough to think of
this as a user context or user login.  For every operation there is
always the notion of an authenticated user context.  In particular, the
comment "This user is considered anonymous and has not authenticated in
any way" is correct from a Web site security point of view (no dialog
box popped up when someone tried to access your Web page) but it is
completely incorrect from a Windows networking point of view.

When a Web site developer tells IIS to permit anonymous access to a Web
site, or to a page on a site, Windows basically says "OK, since all
those Web users look the same to me, and they haven't logged in
anywhere, YOU give me a valid user account and password for them to
use."  This is the role served, by default, by the IUSR_<machinename>
account.  You can change that to any account you like, but obviously all
Web visitors use the same account because there's no way to tell them
apart.

Although (as someone mentioned) the Web server itself (IIS) is running
under the local SYSTEM account, it impersonates the IUSR_<machinename>
account for all access to files and other resources.  This includes
every single file, even if your Web server is doing nothing but serving
one, simple HTML file.  The IUSR_<machinename> account must have Read
access to that file.

Windows networking supports local machine accounts and domain accounts.
Local machine accounts can ONLY have access to resources on their local
machine.  Domain accounts can use resources on any machine on the
network, provided they are granted access rights to those resources.

You CAN'T sit down at machine FOO and set the permissions on a file to
give BAR\IUSR_BAR Read access to that file.  (BAR\IUSR_BAR means the
local account IUSR_BAR on the MACHINE named BAR.)  If FOO and BAR are
members of a domain named BAZ, then you can grant access (on FOO) to any
domain account (BAZ\Guest or BAZ\Administrator or anything).

If you want IIS to grant an anonymous Web visitor rights to read any
file that's not on the local IIS machine, you MUST change IIS' default
(and conservative) setting and assign a domain user account for it to
use.  You can then set the access rights on any file or other resource
to grant that domain user account access.  That machine must have access
to a domain controller so the IIS login account can be authenticated
when the first anonymous access occurs.

Always create an account that is used only for this purpose; don't share
another account.  Always realize that this account can potentially have
access to any resource on your network, so be careful.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Paske [mailto:spaske at kapur-assoc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 5:32 PM
To: Hankley, Chip
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] msDrawRaster TileIndex TileItem Location
HELP!


I remember wrestling with user priviledge issues when I first set up a
mapserver site. I went around the issue a few times trying to get the
cgi to
work, yet restrict access to the map file (because that file contains
drive
and data path information, which could help compromise a server...).

The user accessing the content, if coming from the internet, should be
IUSR_* (the * could be a computer name or something else). This user is
considered anonymous and has not authenticated in any way. Check your
IIS
directory security properties and see how your users are authenticating
-
you could be allowing a range of users to log on, from anonymous to
domain
authenticated.

The domain of this user will most likely not be the domain(s) in which
the
machine is a member, but the machine name itself. In other words, IUSR_*
is
not a member of any domain. This is how our Win2000 server works. So if
you
want an internet user to have access to a file, you must explicitly
grant
IUSR_* access to the file, but that could be complicated if the file is
on
another machine in the domain. That machine may require _authorized_
(and
authentic) users to be members of the domain, and that would not be a
good
idea for the anonymous internet account.

Of course, this all depends on what user is accessing the file. Perhaps
the
anonymous user is not actually accessing the data files - the server
software is. If the server software is accessing a file as admin (or
similar), can it access the domain? I doubt it, because it is running
under
a local account, not a domain account. There are Microsoft protocols
that
can be used to access/execute files on other machines, but I am not too
familiar with them.

That is the extent of my Windows knowledge, and our guru is gone for the
day. (And not because windows networks are sooo easy to administer....
:)

Sam Paske
Kapur AGS



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
[mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu]On Behalf Of Hankley,
Chip
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:54 PM
To: 'Richard Greenwood'; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] msDrawRaster TileIndex TileItem Location
HELP!


Richard and I are having the same problem I think...

I'm beginning to think that on NT, your data HAS to be on a local
drive....

Lowell wrote:
 >You might try dumping a simple shapefile over on the share and adding
it
as
 >a layer in your .map file.  Just to see if things on that level work.

I tried this yesterday and got the same results. I used a map file with
one
simple polygon layer. Did it local, worked fine, on a share, didnt'
work.

 >Have you tried blowing open the privs just to see if that fixes it?

This is possible, does anyone know what USER IIS or PWS acts as on NT?
Does
it take on the credentials of whoever is logged in, or is it something
more
obsure, like %SYSTEM?

Man, if anyone knows the definitive answer to this, please speak up!
This
has some significant ramifications for how I deploy some applications,
and
I'm totally stuck.

Chip Hankley



From ed at topozone.com  Wed Aug  1 12:27:57 2001
From: ed at topozone.com (Ed McNierney)
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 15:27:57 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] OGR Support for TIGER 2000 Data?
Message-ID: <13858AA1A74F30419F319ACB66A9D122019148@mercator.topozone.com>

I'm trying to use the current (nightly) build of MS 3.5 with OGR
support.  I'm working with the GDAL-1.1.5 distribution and I can't get
it to read TIGER 2000 data I just downloaded from the Census Bureau's
site.  This is on a Windows 2000 system, and OGR otherwise seems OK (as
far as I can tell) - I'm using the current GDAL11.DLL.

Running ogrinfo on a file ("ogrinfo tgr25001.rt1") in the current
directory reports "Unable to open datasource 'tgr25001.rt1' with the
following drivers..." (and TIGER is listed).

Any tips would be appreciated - TIA.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com
ed at topozone.com
(978) 251-4242


From Rich at GreenwoodMap.com  Wed Aug  1 12:33:50 2001
From: Rich at GreenwoodMap.com (Richard Greenwood)
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 13:33:50 -0600
Subject: [mapserver-users] compiling MS 3.5 on NT
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010801131032.03417d20@mail.GreenwoodMap.com>

Hi All,

I'm having two problems compiling mapserver 3.5 under VC with all of the 
options that I want.

1. I can't seem to link true type support in, no matter what I do, when I 
run my compiled mapserv.exe I get the error:
"loadlabel(): Unknown identifier. Keyword FONT is not valid without 
TrueType font support."

2. I am getting a nasty error from tiff_lib; mapserver crashes with the error:
"Instruction at "xxx" referenced memory at "xxx". The memory could not be 
written."
I only get this error from the executable that I have compiled, not the 3.5 
executable that download from the umn.edu site, so I'm obviously doing 
something wrong.

If anyone can shed any light on either of these issues, I'd appreciate it. 
Running ms 3.5 is not critical to my project so I am not losing any sleep 
over these problems, it is just that I have spent so much time trying to 
get a good executable that I'd like to figure out what I am doing wrong.

Rich



Richard W. Greenwood, PLS
Greenwood Mapping, Inc.
Rich at GreenwoodMap.com
(307) 733-0203
http://www.GreenwoodMap.com



From vieglais at ku.edu  Wed Aug  1 14:48:01 2001
From: vieglais at ku.edu (Dave Vieglais)
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 16:48:01 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] msDrawRaster TileIndex TileItem Location HELP!
In-Reply-To: <13858AA1A74F30419F319ACB66A9D122019147@mercator.topozone.com>
Message-ID: <002501c11ad3$a2f21400$cec9ed81@life.ku.edu>

For a good description of how to use mapped network drives with IIS and
the security issues involved, try:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q257/1/74.ASP

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q187/5/06.ASP
is also quite relevant.

Cheers,
  Dave V.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sam Paske [mailto:spaske at kapur-assoc.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 11:23 AM
>To: Ed McNierney
>Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] msDrawRaster TileIndex TileItem Location
>HELP!
>
>
>Ed,
>
>Thanks for the clarification. It *really* does help one understand how
>things work if you can understand the underlying phylosophy. 
>The part of
>this that I am most hazy on is where the IUSR_* stops and where the
>SYSTEM
>account starts.
>
>For example, some mapserver users are using the cgi version, which is
>fairly
>straightforward in that the cgi is invoked to execute with IUSR_*
>permissions. (At least that's how I understand it....) But other users
>are
>putting together more complicated servers where scripting hosts are
>executing. I confess thatI have very little knowledge of how, for
>instance,
>IIS->perl->IIS actually works. I believe the cgi version 
>spawns a unique
>process for every map session (or request). But I don't understand how
>the
>scripting modules plug into IIS - are they running as a service, or are
>they
>invoked like the cgi version. The implication, in effect, would be that
>you
>would have a fairly priviledged user hitting the web server if the
>scripting
>module was running as more than IUSR_*.
>
>I have a little experience with Cold Fusion (CF), and I know that CF
>must
>run as SYSTEM or some equivalent. So it is possible to mix security
>contexts
>with IIS. (The saving factor is that CF manages it's own security by
>only
>accepting page requests that are "ok" with IIS and by not allowing
>things
>like access to the directory structure unless specifically permitted.)
>
>Getting back to the issue, I noticed that another user thought the
>problem
>might be with the path to the files. Has anyone tried to use a 
>microsoft
>Distributed File System? From what I understand, it could be an
>alternative
>if you are using NT4/2000.
>
>Finally, there is a way for a user to access files on a remote machine
>and
>_not_ be a member of the domain. The key is that the "user" must exist
>on
>both machines and must have the same name and password. For example, if
>I
>want an anonymous web user (accessing IIS on the machine named
>"terramapper") to be able to see files on John Doe's computer (named
>"hal9000" let's say) I would need to have the anonymous web user use an
>account with a static name and password. So I create a local account
>called
>INETUSER and give it a password of "password" (couldn't resist). I do
>this
>on BOTH machines. I then have IIS use that account (technically
>INETUSER/TERRAMAPPER), and set the permissions of the web so that
>INETUSER
>can read the necesary files. I then go over to hal9000 and 
>give INETUSER
>(technically INETUSER/HAL9000) the right to see a few shape files and
>directories. (I make sure that the files are not under My Documents for
>reasons I won't go into.) Then, paths and drive mapping aside, the IIS
>user
>should have the ability to see the remote files.
>
>Hope I didn't confuse the issue!
>
>Sam
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ed McNierney [mailto:ed at topozone.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 7:11 PM
>To: Sam Paske; Hankley, Chip
>Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] msDrawRaster TileIndex TileItem Location
>HELP!
>
>
>Sam et al. -
>
>I think I covered a lot of this with my previous post, but there seems
>to be enough interest to warrant some clarification.  I've worked with
>both Windows and UNIX networks for a long time, and I don't find either
>particularly hard to manage or easy to manage, but they're certainly
>different.  It's really worth spending some time understanding the
>philosophy behind Windows networking before you expose your network
>assets to the world.
>
>One of the fundamental precepts of Windows NT/2000 security is that
>EVERY access to every resource on every system is done through a
>security context.  For most purposes, it's simple enough to think of
>this as a user context or user login.  For every operation there is
>always the notion of an authenticated user context.  In particular, the
>comment "This user is considered anonymous and has not authenticated in
>any way" is correct from a Web site security point of view (no dialog
>box popped up when someone tried to access your Web page) but it is
>completely incorrect from a Windows networking point of view.
>
>When a Web site developer tells IIS to permit anonymous access to a Web
>site, or to a page on a site, Windows basically says "OK, since all
>those Web users look the same to me, and they haven't logged in
>anywhere, YOU give me a valid user account and password for them to
>use."  This is the role served, by default, by the IUSR_<machinename>
>account.  You can change that to any account you like, but 
>obviously all
>Web visitors use the same account because there's no way to tell them
>apart.
>
>Although (as someone mentioned) the Web server itself (IIS) is running
>under the local SYSTEM account, it impersonates the IUSR_<machinename>
>account for all access to files and other resources.  This includes
>every single file, even if your Web server is doing nothing but serving
>one, simple HTML file.  The IUSR_<machinename> account must have Read
>access to that file.
>
>Windows networking supports local machine accounts and domain accounts.
>Local machine accounts can ONLY have access to resources on their local
>machine.  Domain accounts can use resources on any machine on the
>network, provided they are granted access rights to those resources.
>
>You CAN'T sit down at machine FOO and set the permissions on a file to
>give BAR\IUSR_BAR Read access to that file.  (BAR\IUSR_BAR means the
>local account IUSR_BAR on the MACHINE named BAR.)  If FOO and BAR are
>members of a domain named BAZ, then you can grant access (on 
>FOO) to any
>domain account (BAZ\Guest or BAZ\Administrator or anything).
>
>If you want IIS to grant an anonymous Web visitor rights to read any
>file that's not on the local IIS machine, you MUST change IIS' default
>(and conservative) setting and assign a domain user account for it to
>use.  You can then set the access rights on any file or other resource
>to grant that domain user account access.  That machine must 
>have access
>to a domain controller so the IIS login account can be authenticated
>when the first anonymous access occurs.
>
>Always create an account that is used only for this purpose; 
>don't share
>another account.  Always realize that this account can potentially have
>access to any resource on your network, so be careful.
>
>	- Ed
>
>Ed McNierney
>Chief Mapmaker
>TopoZone.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sam Paske [mailto:spaske at kapur-assoc.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 5:32 PM
>To: Hankley, Chip
>Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] msDrawRaster TileIndex TileItem Location
>HELP!
>
>
>I remember wrestling with user priviledge issues when I first set up a
>mapserver site. I went around the issue a few times trying to get the
>cgi to
>work, yet restrict access to the map file (because that file contains
>drive
>and data path information, which could help compromise a server...).
>
>The user accessing the content, if coming from the internet, should be
>IUSR_* (the * could be a computer name or something else). This user is
>considered anonymous and has not authenticated in any way. Check your
>IIS
>directory security properties and see how your users are authenticating
>-
>you could be allowing a range of users to log on, from anonymous to
>domain
>authenticated.
>
>The domain of this user will most likely not be the domain(s) in which
>the
>machine is a member, but the machine name itself. In other 
>words, IUSR_*
>is
>not a member of any domain. This is how our Win2000 server works. So if
>you
>want an internet user to have access to a file, you must explicitly
>grant
>IUSR_* access to the file, but that could be complicated if the file is
>on
>another machine in the domain. That machine may require _authorized_
>(and
>authentic) users to be members of the domain, and that would not be a
>good
>idea for the anonymous internet account.
>
>Of course, this all depends on what user is accessing the file. Perhaps
>the
>anonymous user is not actually accessing the data files - the server
>software is. If the server software is accessing a file as admin (or
>similar), can it access the domain? I doubt it, because it is running
>under
>a local account, not a domain account. There are Microsoft protocols
>that
>can be used to access/execute files on other machines, but I am not too
>familiar with them.
>
>That is the extent of my Windows knowledge, and our guru is 
>gone for the
>day. (And not because windows networks are sooo easy to administer....
>:)
>
>Sam Paske
>Kapur AGS
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>[mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu]On Behalf Of Hankley,
>Chip
>Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:54 PM
>To: 'Richard Greenwood'; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] msDrawRaster TileIndex TileItem Location
>HELP!
>
>
>Richard and I are having the same problem I think...
>
>I'm beginning to think that on NT, your data HAS to be on a local
>drive....
>
>Lowell wrote:
> >You might try dumping a simple shapefile over on the share and adding
>it
>as
> >a layer in your .map file.  Just to see if things on that level work.
>
>I tried this yesterday and got the same results. I used a map file with
>one
>simple polygon layer. Did it local, worked fine, on a share, didnt'
>work.
>
> >Have you tried blowing open the privs just to see if that fixes it?
>
>This is possible, does anyone know what USER IIS or PWS acts as on NT?
>Does
>it take on the credentials of whoever is logged in, or is it something
>more
>obsure, like %SYSTEM?
>
>Man, if anyone knows the definitive answer to this, please speak up!
>This
>has some significant ramifications for how I deploy some applications,
>and
>I'm totally stuck.
>
>Chip Hankley
>



From nwerneck at yahoo.com.br  Wed Aug  1 15:00:10 2001
From: nwerneck at yahoo.com.br (=?iso-8859-1?q?Nicolau=20Werneck?=)
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 19:00:10 -0300 (ART)
Subject: [mapserver-users] MIF to SHP
Message-ID: <20010801220011.14073.qmail@web4307.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi.

What's the RIGHT way to create a MIF file to use with
the mifshape program?

bye

--Nicolau



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From nvijayashree at propmart.com  Thu Aug  2 03:24:53 2001
From: nvijayashree at propmart.com (Vijayashree)
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 15:54:53 +0530 
Subject: [mapserver-users] integrating arcims with flash
Message-ID: <AFD560751D99D411A45B00508BEA3A48146570@lan-202-144-95-212.maa.sify.net>

hello,

Can anybody tell me how to integrate flash with arcims. I would like to do
some interaction with maps when it is displayed.

Thanks in advance 
vijayashree 


From LBallard at YesVirginia.org  Thu Aug  2 06:12:17 2001
From: LBallard at YesVirginia.org (Ballard,Lowell)
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 09:12:17 -0400 
Subject: [mapserver-users] msDrawRaster TileIndex TileItem Location HE
	LP!
Message-ID: <509989F9E1D38D47ADA73ED9CF5BF32A16CE22@communications>

We recently started using image catalogs in FAT clients (ArcGIS 8.1 stuff)
that include UNC mappings.  We basically changed the location field 

From:
s:\imagery3\drg\39078\d3clp.tif


To:
\\oglalla\imagery3\drg\39078\d3clp.tif


in our imagecat.dbf file where oglalla is the name of a UNIX box running
Samba sharing out imagery3 as a read-only file system.  

I then load the imagecat.dbf into SDE and it can be seen by clients through
the SDE port and no drive mappings are necessary for any of my GIS clients.
It's a bit off-topic but might be useful to some people.

Lowell------


-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Vieglais [mailto:vieglais at ku.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 5:48 PM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] msDrawRaster TileIndex TileItem Location
HELP!

For a good description of how to use mapped network drives with IIS and
the security issues involved, try:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q257/1/74.ASP

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q187/5/06.ASP
is also quite relevant.

Cheers,
  Dave V.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sam Paske [mailto:spaske at kapur-assoc.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 11:23 AM
>To: Ed McNierney
>Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] msDrawRaster TileIndex TileItem Location
>HELP!
>
>
>Ed,
>
>Thanks for the clarification. It *really* does help one understand how
>things work if you can understand the underlying phylosophy. 
>The part of
>this that I am most hazy on is where the IUSR_* stops and where the
>SYSTEM
>account starts.
>
>For example, some mapserver users are using the cgi version, which is
>fairly
>straightforward in that the cgi is invoked to execute with IUSR_*
>permissions. (At least that's how I understand it....) But other users
>are
>putting together more complicated servers where scripting hosts are
>executing. I confess thatI have very little knowledge of how, for
>instance,
>IIS->perl->IIS actually works. I believe the cgi version 
>spawns a unique
>process for every map session (or request). But I don't understand how
>the
>scripting modules plug into IIS - are they running as a service, or are
>they
>invoked like the cgi version. The implication, in effect, would be that
>you
>would have a fairly priviledged user hitting the web server if the
>scripting
>module was running as more than IUSR_*.
>
>I have a little experience with Cold Fusion (CF), and I know that CF
>must
>run as SYSTEM or some equivalent. So it is possible to mix security
>contexts
>with IIS. (The saving factor is that CF manages it's own security by
>only
>accepting page requests that are "ok" with IIS and by not allowing
>things
>like access to the directory structure unless specifically permitted.)
>
>Getting back to the issue, I noticed that another user thought the
>problem
>might be with the path to the files. Has anyone tried to use a 
>microsoft
>Distributed File System? From what I understand, it could be an
>alternative
>if you are using NT4/2000.
>
>Finally, there is a way for a user to access files on a remote machine
>and
>_not_ be a member of the domain. The key is that the "user" must exist
>on
>both machines and must have the same name and password. For example, if
>I
>want an anonymous web user (accessing IIS on the machine named
>"terramapper") to be able to see files on John Doe's computer (named
>"hal9000" let's say) I would need to have the anonymous web user use an
>account with a static name and password. So I create a local account
>called
>INETUSER and give it a password of "password" (couldn't resist). I do
>this
>on BOTH machines. I then have IIS use that account (technically
>INETUSER/TERRAMAPPER), and set the permissions of the web so that
>INETUSER
>can read the necesary files. I then go over to hal9000 and 
>give INETUSER
>(technically INETUSER/HAL9000) the right to see a few shape files and
>directories. (I make sure that the files are not under My Documents for
>reasons I won't go into.) Then, paths and drive mapping aside, the IIS
>user
>should have the ability to see the remote files.
>
>Hope I didn't confuse the issue!
>
>Sam
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ed McNierney [mailto:ed at topozone.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 7:11 PM
>To: Sam Paske; Hankley, Chip
>Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] msDrawRaster TileIndex TileItem Location
>HELP!
>
>
>Sam et al. -
>
>I think I covered a lot of this with my previous post, but there seems
>to be enough interest to warrant some clarification.  I've worked with
>both Windows and UNIX networks for a long time, and I don't find either
>particularly hard to manage or easy to manage, but they're certainly
>different.  It's really worth spending some time understanding the
>philosophy behind Windows networking before you expose your network
>assets to the world.
>
>One of the fundamental precepts of Windows NT/2000 security is that
>EVERY access to every resource on every system is done through a
>security context.  For most purposes, it's simple enough to think of
>this as a user context or user login.  For every operation there is
>always the notion of an authenticated user context.  In particular, the
>comment "This user is considered anonymous and has not authenticated in
>any way" is correct from a Web site security point of view (no dialog
>box popped up when someone tried to access your Web page) but it is
>completely incorrect from a Windows networking point of view.
>
>When a Web site developer tells IIS to permit anonymous access to a Web
>site, or to a page on a site, Windows basically says "OK, since all
>those Web users look the same to me, and they haven't logged in
>anywhere, YOU give me a valid user account and password for them to
>use."  This is the role served, by default, by the IUSR_<machinename>
>account.  You can change that to any account you like, but 
>obviously all
>Web visitors use the same account because there's no way to tell them
>apart.
>
>Although (as someone mentioned) the Web server itself (IIS) is running
>under the local SYSTEM account, it impersonates the IUSR_<machinename>
>account for all access to files and other resources.  This includes
>every single file, even if your Web server is doing nothing but serving
>one, simple HTML file.  The IUSR_<machinename> account must have Read
>access to that file.
>
>Windows networking supports local machine accounts and domain accounts.
>Local machine accounts can ONLY have access to resources on their local
>machine.  Domain accounts can use resources on any machine on the
>network, provided they are granted access rights to those resources.
>
>You CAN'T sit down at machine FOO and set the permissions on a file to
>give BAR\IUSR_BAR Read access to that file.  (BAR\IUSR_BAR means the
>local account IUSR_BAR on the MACHINE named BAR.)  If FOO and BAR are
>members of a domain named BAZ, then you can grant access (on 
>FOO) to any
>domain account (BAZ\Guest or BAZ\Administrator or anything).
>
>If you want IIS to grant an anonymous Web visitor rights to read any
>file that's not on the local IIS machine, you MUST change IIS' default
>(and conservative) setting and assign a domain user account for it to
>use.  You can then set the access rights on any file or other resource
>to grant that domain user account access.  That machine must 
>have access
>to a domain controller so the IIS login account can be authenticated
>when the first anonymous access occurs.
>
>Always create an account that is used only for this purpose; 
>don't share
>another account.  Always realize that this account can potentially have
>access to any resource on your network, so be careful.
>
>	- Ed
>
>Ed McNierney
>Chief Mapmaker
>TopoZone.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sam Paske [mailto:spaske at kapur-assoc.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 5:32 PM
>To: Hankley, Chip
>Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] msDrawRaster TileIndex TileItem Location
>HELP!
>
>
>I remember wrestling with user priviledge issues when I first set up a
>mapserver site. I went around the issue a few times trying to get the
>cgi to
>work, yet restrict access to the map file (because that file contains
>drive
>and data path information, which could help compromise a server...).
>
>The user accessing the content, if coming from the internet, should be
>IUSR_* (the * could be a computer name or something else). This user is
>considered anonymous and has not authenticated in any way. Check your
>IIS
>directory security properties and see how your users are authenticating
>-
>you could be allowing a range of users to log on, from anonymous to
>domain
>authenticated.
>
>The domain of this user will most likely not be the domain(s) in which
>the
>machine is a member, but the machine name itself. In other 
>words, IUSR_*
>is
>not a member of any domain. This is how our Win2000 server works. So if
>you
>want an internet user to have access to a file, you must explicitly
>grant
>IUSR_* access to the file, but that could be complicated if the file is
>on
>another machine in the domain. That machine may require _authorized_
>(and
>authentic) users to be members of the domain, and that would not be a
>good
>idea for the anonymous internet account.
>
>Of course, this all depends on what user is accessing the file. Perhaps
>the
>anonymous user is not actually accessing the data files - the server
>software is. If the server software is accessing a file as admin (or
>similar), can it access the domain? I doubt it, because it is running
>under
>a local account, not a domain account. There are Microsoft protocols
>that
>can be used to access/execute files on other machines, but I am not too
>familiar with them.
>
>That is the extent of my Windows knowledge, and our guru is 
>gone for the
>day. (And not because windows networks are sooo easy to administer....
>:)
>
>Sam Paske
>Kapur AGS
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>[mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu]On Behalf Of Hankley,
>Chip
>Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:54 PM
>To: 'Richard Greenwood'; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] msDrawRaster TileIndex TileItem Location
>HELP!
>
>
>Richard and I are having the same problem I think...
>
>I'm beginning to think that on NT, your data HAS to be on a local
>drive....
>
>Lowell wrote:
> >You might try dumping a simple shapefile over on the share and adding
>it
>as
> >a layer in your .map file.  Just to see if things on that level work.
>
>I tried this yesterday and got the same results. I used a map file with
>one
>simple polygon layer. Did it local, worked fine, on a share, didnt'
>work.
>
> >Have you tried blowing open the privs just to see if that fixes it?
>
>This is possible, does anyone know what USER IIS or PWS acts as on NT?
>Does
>it take on the credentials of whoever is logged in, or is it something
>more
>obsure, like %SYSTEM?
>
>Man, if anyone knows the definitive answer to this, please speak up!
>This
>has some significant ramifications for how I deploy some applications,
>and
>I'm totally stuck.
>
>Chip Hankley
>


From Chip.Hankley at GASAI.Com  Thu Aug  2 06:52:41 2001
From: Chip.Hankley at GASAI.Com (Hankley, Chip)
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 08:52:41 -0500 
Subject: [mapserver-users] Using data on Mapped Drives?
Message-ID: <3DFF131E4E6D2D4198CDD758F35A53536E3DE5@postoffice.GASAI.Com>

OK,

I'm just posting this for the sake of the Archive... the bulk of the
information on this topic can be found under the following thread:

RE: [mapserver-users] msDrawRaster TileIndex TileItem Location HELP!

The problem is one of permissions... specifically one of the default account
that PWS or IIS uses when trying to access resources from the Web Server.
This is very well explained in one of the posts from Ed McNierney in the
above thread.

If you are using IIS, follow his instructions. In PWS, the process is almost
identical. If you took the default installation of PWS from the NT 4.0
Option pack, then:

Start->Programs->Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack->Microsoft Personal Web
Server->Internet Service Manager

Under Internet Information Server, choose the machine, then the Web Site,
right click on the web site and choose properties. 
  Select the Directory Security Tab...
  hit the EDIT button under "Anonymous Access and Authentication Control" 
  Select the EDIT button by "Allow Anonymous Access"
  Select "Browse" and choose a Username that has access to the resources you
want the application to connect to.

NOTE! Make sure you read the thread referenced above! There are security
issues when doing this which you should be aware of.

Cheers!

Chip Hankley



> I have a PHP MapScript project that _was_ working great.
> 
> I moved the data off of the local drive to a shared 
> network drive, then changed the paths in the map file, 
> but my app now bombs out with the following error:
> 
>   Fatal error: MapServer Error in msDrawRaster(): 
>     (S:\Projects\20000156\Images\drg2.tif) in zoom.php 
>     on line 151
> 
> The offending line in php (151) is:
> 
>   $img = $map->draw();
> 
> Am I missing something? I can't seem to find anything
> in the documentation that would prevent me from access-
> ing data on an NT share.
> 
> I'm using MS 3.4 w/ php 4.04pl1 on WinNT w/ PWS
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Chip Hankley



From bfischer at mpls.houstoneng.com  Thu Aug  2 07:17:21 2001
From: bfischer at mpls.houstoneng.com (Brian Fischer)
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 09:17:21 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Mapserver Binaries
Message-ID: <8879CCE0F0187742B7302A93A8B87B090297D4@mpls.houstoneng.com>

I was wondering if anyone else has a copy of mapserver 3.3011 executable
for windows with all of the support compiled in.  The one that can be
downloaded from the Mapserver homepage (
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/win32binaries.html) seems to have a problem
with it.  I downloaded it and tried to unzip it with WinZip and get an
error, so then I tried it with another decompression software and there
are no files in the zip file.  Is this a bad file or is there a problem
on my side?
 
Thanks,
Brian 
 


From pkishor at GeoAnalytics.com  Thu Aug  2 07:21:13 2001
From: pkishor at GeoAnalytics.com (Puneet Kishor)
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 09:21:13 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] integrating arcims with flash
In-Reply-To: <AFD560751D99D411A45B00508BEA3A48146570@lan-202-144-95-212.maa.sify.net>
Message-ID: <200108021422.JAA18131@lists.gis.umn.edu>

posting arcims questions to mapserver list is very bad karma. it can 
cause your java socket to get clogged up.

pk/


On Thursday, August 2, 2001, at 05:24  AM, Vijayashree wrote:

> hello,
>
> Can anybody tell me how to integrate flash with arcims. I would like to 
> do
> some interaction with maps when it is displayed.
>
> Thanks in advance
> vijayashree


From assefa at dmsolutions.ca  Thu Aug  2 07:35:28 2001
From: assefa at dmsolutions.ca (Assefa Yewondwossen)
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 10:35:28 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Mapserver Binaries
References: <8879CCE0F0187742B7302A93A8B87B090297D4@mpls.houstoneng.com>
Message-ID: <3B696530.D14CD789@dmsolutions.ca>

Hi There,

There is one on our download site at :
http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/mapserver/dl/old_stuff/ms_3.3.011-win32.zip.

Best Regards,


Brian Fischer wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone else has a copy of mapserver 3.3011 executable
> for windows with all of the support compiled in.  The one that can be
> downloaded from the Mapserver homepage (
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/win32binaries.html) seems to have a problem
> with it.  I downloaded it and tried to unzip it with WinZip and get an
> error, so then I tried it with another decompression software and there
> are no files in the zip file.  Is this a bad file or is there a problem
> on my side?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>

--
----------------------------------------------------------------
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Software Analyst

Email: assefa at dmsolutions.ca
http://www.dmsolutions.ca/

Phone: (613) 565-5056
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From pnaciona at gis.umn.edu  Thu Aug  2 09:03:20 2001
From: pnaciona at gis.umn.edu (Pericles S. Nacionales)
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:03:20 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Mapserver Binaries
In-Reply-To: <8879CCE0F0187742B7302A93A8B87B090297D4@mpls.houstoneng.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.21.0108021101410.1208923-100000@center.gis.umn.edu>

Brian,

Did you try downloading it again? If you run into the same problem, still
have my original 3.3.011 binaries and would be glad to send it to you.

-Perry

Pericles S. Nacionales 
Research Assistant
GIS and Remote Sensing Lab
Department of Forest Resources
University of Minnesota

(612) 624-3459
pnaciona at gis.umn.edu

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Brian Fischer wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone else has a copy of mapserver 3.3011 executable
> for windows with all of the support compiled in.  The one that can be
> downloaded from the Mapserver homepage (
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/win32binaries.html) seems to have a problem
> with it.  I downloaded it and tried to unzip it with WinZip and get an
> error, so then I tried it with another decompression software and there
> are no files in the zip file.  Is this a bad file or is there a problem
> on my side?
>  
> Thanks,
> Brian 
>  
> 



From mckenna at dmsolutions.ca  Thu Aug  2 09:08:45 2001
From: mckenna at dmsolutions.ca (Jeff McKenna)
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 12:08:45 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] OGR Support for TIGER 2000 Data?
References: <13858AA1A74F30419F319ACB66A9D122019148@mercator.topozone.com>
Message-ID: <3B697B0D.443A296A@dmsolutions.ca>

> I'm trying to use the current (nightly) build of MS 3.5 with OGR
> support.  I'm working with the GDAL-1.1.5 distribution and I can't get
> it to read TIGER 2000 data I just downloaded from the Census Bureau's
> site.  This is on a Windows 2000 system, and OGR otherwise seems OK (as
> far as I can tell) - I'm using the current GDAL11.DLL.
>
> Running ogrinfo on a file ("ogrinfo tgr25001.rt1") in the current
> directory reports "Unable to open datasource 'tgr25001.rt1' with the
> following drivers..." (and TIGER is listed).
>

Hi Ed,

I downloaded 'tgr25001.rt1' as well and tried to run ogrinfo and I get the
same error message as you.  This did work with previous versions of Tiger
data (at the time we compiled the HOWTO); however, now when I try to look
at 1998 Tiger data with ogrinfo it no longer seems to work (?).  Daniel and
I are looking at it and we'll let you know if we figure this out.

Jeff



--

Jeff McKenna
GIS Specialist
DM Solutions Group Inc.
Ottawa, Ontario
http://www.dmsolutions.ca/





From andreag at crs4.it  Thu Aug  2 09:32:09 2001
From: andreag at crs4.it (A. Giacomelli)
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 18:32:09 +0200
Subject: [mapserver-users] Meeting
References: <000001c114e4$ae03fb00$3e00a8c0@goodfella> <3B5ED3B3.588CCEB2@dmsolutions.ca>
Message-ID: <3B698089.48F8BA90@crs4.it>


> 
> BTW, I think the user group meeting is a fantastic idea.  It would
> certainly help to put faces to all of these names. :)
> 

Hi,

over the pond we are following your plans for the user meeting with some
envy...(no, just kidding). I'm sure some nice things would come out of
it.

About the face issue (which I feel as well: with these myriads of
mailing lists and electronic forums featuring thousands of "faceless"
people) I think an application where you click on a country/city and you
get the faces of the subscriber from that location would be an
interesting  mapserver show-off... :)

Ok: I am somewhat trailing off-topic...that'll be all for now

Keep up with the good work!

Ciao
-- 
=========================================
Andrea Giacomelli
Centre for Advanced Studies, Research and
Development in Sardinia

http://www.crs4.it/~andreag
=========================================


From chuynh at ideorlando.org  Thu Aug  2 09:31:20 2001
From: chuynh at ideorlando.org (Chan B. Huynh)
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 12:31:20 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Mapserver Binaries
In-Reply-To: <8879CCE0F0187742B7302A93A8B87B090297D4@mpls.houstoneng.com>
Message-ID: <KCEJLLAIGOFFEIFJJOCIMECJCAAA.chuynh@ideorlando.org>

Hi Brian,
That's odd.  I downloaded the one with GIF support and has no problem at all
in unzipping it.  The demo is running well on my NT Netscape Server.  Though
I have to play around with the map file a bit.  The documentation is more
for UNIX Server.
You might want to re-download it.  It will unzip to 7,8 executables
including mapserv.exe.
Don't double click on it.  Open WinZip from the Start->Program and then load
the zip file in.

Hope that helps.
-chan


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
[mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu]On Behalf Of Brian
Fischer
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 10:17 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: [mapserver-users] Mapserver Binaries


I was wondering if anyone else has a copy of mapserver 3.3011 executable
for windows with all of the support compiled in.  The one that can be
downloaded from the Mapserver homepage (
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/win32binaries.html) seems to have a problem
with it.  I downloaded it and tried to unzip it with WinZip and get an
error, so then I tried it with another decompression software and there
are no files in the zip file.  Is this a bad file or is there a problem
on my side?

Thanks,
Brian




From ed at topozone.com  Thu Aug  2 09:42:02 2001
From: ed at topozone.com (Ed McNierney)
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 12:42:02 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] PROJ.4 interpretation of "geographic"
Message-ID: <13858AA1A74F30419F319ACB66A9D122019149@mercator.topozone.com>

I'm trying to discern the exact meaning of the "geographic" projection
in PROJ.4, and I'm a little puzzled.  In particular, I'm trying to
figure out what ellipsoid is used to interpret the geographic
coordinates.  That is, is "geographic" the same as "proj=latlong
ellps=clrk66" or "proj=latlong ellps=GRS80" or something else entirely?
This should be findable somewhere, but I haven't been able to figure it
out.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com
ed at topozone.com
(978) 251-4242


From andreag at geoplan.ufl.edu  Thu Aug  2 11:38:40 2001
From: andreag at geoplan.ufl.edu (Andrea Goethals)
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 14:38:40 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] request for javascript exs
Message-ID: <3B699E30.691B81CD@geoplan.ufl.edu>

OK I now have a few days where I can work on the 'mapserver &
javascript'
documentation. For part of it I want to show really generic examples of
how 
to do various functions. If any of you could email me some of your
javascript
functions, I can make them generic and post it as part of the
documentation.
Note that I would need them by 08-07-01.

Don't bother cleaning any scripts up - I can do that.

Thanks,
Andrea
-- 
@-------------------------@
| Andrea Goethals         |
| andreag at geoplan.ufl.edu |
| GeoPlan Center          |
| University of Florida   |
@-------------------------@


From bruno_gendron at yahoo.com  Thu Aug  2 13:26:12 2001
From: bruno_gendron at yahoo.com (=?iso-8859-1?q?Bruno=20Gendron?=)
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 22:26:12 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [mapserver-users] embedded scalebars and legends,  labelrequires
Message-ID: <20010802202612.2535.qmail@web4603.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi

I'm using the most recent (nightly build) Win32
binaries for version 3.5 with PNG and OGR support
(mapserv.exe created on 08-01-01), and I still get the
following error when I try to embed scalebars and/or
legend:

Fatal error: MapServer Error in msGetBitmapFont():
Invalid bitmap font. Must be one of tiny, small,
medium, large or giant.

Steve Lime said that this problem had been solved and
committed to CVS.

Also, will Truetype fonts be eventually supported in
legends and scalebars ?

Finally, I try to use the new LABELREQUIRES and
REQUIRES mapfile parameters, but I always get the
following error:

Warning: MapServer Error in getString(): (["cities"] =
1): (169).....
Fatal error: Failed to open map file
mapfiles\worldquery.map.....

Any idea?

Thanks


=====
Bruno Gendron
Consultant en TI et en geomatique / IT and GIS Consultant
Lachine, QC Canada, Tel: 514-634-7024

"Quand on connait l'equilibre, on ne se passionne pour rien,
   on ne s'attache meme pas a la vie, car on est la vie."
 Emile Cioran

___________________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!? -- Vos albums photos en ligne, 
Yahoo! Photos : http://fr.photos.yahoo.com


From pnaciona at gis.umn.edu  Thu Aug  2 16:34:16 2001
From: pnaciona at gis.umn.edu (Pericles S. Nacionales)
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 18:34:16 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] embedded scalebars and legends,  labelrequires
In-Reply-To: <20010802202612.2535.qmail@web4603.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <EFEDJNCHKJMNHPFIBHJDOEENCBAA.pnaciona@gis.umn.edu>

Bruno,

I recompiled the Win32 binaries for 3.5 using code from the CVS repository.
I hope it fixes your problems.  If you still run into problems maybe you can
attach your mapfile so folks can have a look at it.  Those small typos can
usually screw it up.

-Perry N.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mapserver-users at lists [mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists]On
Behalf Of Bruno Gendron
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 3:26 PM
To: mapserver-users at lists
Subject: [mapserver-users] embedded scalebars and legends, labelrequires


Hi

I'm using the most recent (nightly build) Win32
binaries for version 3.5 with PNG and OGR support
(mapserv.exe created on 08-01-01), and I still get the
following error when I try to embed scalebars and/or
legend:

Fatal error: MapServer Error in msGetBitmapFont():
Invalid bitmap font. Must be one of tiny, small,
medium, large or giant.

Steve Lime said that this problem had been solved and
committed to CVS.

Also, will Truetype fonts be eventually supported in
legends and scalebars ?

Finally, I try to use the new LABELREQUIRES and
REQUIRES mapfile parameters, but I always get the
following error:

Warning: MapServer Error in getString(): (["cities"] =
1): (169).....
Fatal error: Failed to open map file
mapfiles\worldquery.map.....

Any idea?

Thanks


=====
Bruno Gendron
Consultant en TI et en geomatique / IT and GIS Consultant
Lachine, QC Canada, Tel: 514-634-7024

"Quand on connait l'equilibre, on ne se passionne pour rien,
   on ne s'attache meme pas a la vie, car on est la vie."
 Emile Cioran

___________________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!? -- Vos albums photos en ligne,
Yahoo! Photos : http://fr.photos.yahoo.com



From S.Kolomeitz at toowoomba.qld.gov.au  Thu Aug  2 17:08:38 2001
From: S.Kolomeitz at toowoomba.qld.gov.au (Shaun Kolomeitz)
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:08:38 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Australian MapServer Users Listing
Message-ID: <OF72CF6734.21F56485-ON4A256A9C.0082590B@toowoomba.qld.gov.au>

Appologies to the folk in the rest of the world.

I am interested in getting email addresses of MapServer users, physical 
location and web address (of Mapserver Sites) around Australia. I am 
interested in the following info -

1) email address (eg fred at nurk.com.au)
2) Location(eg Toowoomba, QLD)
3) Web Address (eg.http://mygreatpapserver.com.au/Maps)
4) If you are just interested in hearing what people have done/are doing 
with MapServer
5) If you have installed, setup and developed MapServer products
6) What sort of problem did you solve/is the application for ? How long 
did it take and what resources were involved ?
7) If you provide MapServer consulting and training services
8) What you think of the experience of a) Installing Mapserver b) 
Developing mapserver and c) using mapserver websites

The reason being, we are interested in developing our own local MapServer 
app, so some local contacts/experience would be invaluable. If anyone 
feels confident enough to provide training in setting up and developing 
with MapServer (and related products) in Australia I'd also like to know. 
Who knows, you might score a trip to the fabulous Darling Downs !

The second reason is once we get some experience using and developing 
MapServer products we'd like to partake in an Australian MapServer Users 
Group {A-MUG !} (much like the recent thread suggesting a meeting in the 
States) sharing our experiences with peers.

Please email me directly and I will disribute to the rest of the group.
I'd love to hear from you.

Regards,
Shaun

Shaun Kolomeitz
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From epkanegae at myrealbox.com  Thu Aug  2 19:59:36 2001
From: epkanegae at myrealbox.com (Eduardo Patto Kanegae)
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 02:59:36 GMT
Subject: [mapserver-users] Structured Geografic Language for GIS
Message-ID: <996807576.775epkanegae@myrealbox.com>

hi there...

does anybody here have heard 'bout LEGAL(Linguagem Espacial 
para GeoProcessamento Algebrico) ?
LEGAL is a structured query language for GIS objects. its 
author( Gilberto Camara - http://www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto )
has developed a language so usefull as SQL to be used with 
Spring GIS software...

go to http://www.dpi.inpe.br/dpi/teses/gilberto/ or 
http://www.dpi.inpe.br/dpi/teses/gilberto/cap6.pdf and 
there u'll find information about it(sorry, i think there 
is no english version of it)

Eduardo Patto Kanegae




From JohnHockaday at auslig.gov.au  Fri Aug  3 00:19:14 2001
From: JohnHockaday at auslig.gov.au (Hockaday, John)
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 17:19:14 +1000 
Subject: [mapserver-users] Australian MapServer Users Listing
Message-ID: <53273E187450D311ACF6009027927B12022C0DFE@smtpgate.auslig.gov.au>

Hi Saun,

Here are some answers to your questions:
1. johnhockaday at auslig.gov.au
2. Canberra ACT
3. http://www.auslig.gov.au/servlet/asdd_power (just click on the green and
yellow map of Australia to fire up mapserver.)  We are about to use it for
many other interfaces.
4. Yes I'm interested in what people have done.
5. Yes we set it up ourselves with support from this list.
6. Understanding the map file structure, getting some javascript to drag a
box on the image.
7. No we are a commonwealth agency and can't afford to consult. ;--)
8. Mapserver is:
	a. easy to install
	b. documentation is limited but after understanding the map files
setup was easy.
	c. very fast at the web sites that I have looked at.

I hope that this helps.

John Hockaday

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Shaun Kolomeitz [SMTP:S.Kolomeitz at toowoomba.qld.gov.au]
> Sent:	Friday, August 03, 2001 10:09 AM
> To:	mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject:	[mapserver-users] Australian MapServer Users Listing
> 
> 
> Appologies to the folk in the rest of the world. 
> 
> I am interested in getting email addresses of MapServer users, physical
> location and web address (of Mapserver Sites) around Australia. I am
> interested in the following info - 
> 
> 1) email address (eg fred at nurk.com.au) 
> 2) Location(eg Toowoomba, QLD) 
> 3) Web Address (eg.http://mygreatpapserver.com.au/Maps) 
> 4) If you are just interested in hearing what people have done/are doing
> with MapServer 
> 5) If you have installed, setup and developed MapServer products 
> 6) What sort of problem did you solve/is the application for ? How long
> did it take and what resources were involved ? 
> 7) If you provide MapServer consulting and training services 
> 8) What you think of the experience of a) Installing Mapserver b)
> Developing mapserver and c) using mapserver websites 
> 
> The reason being, we are interested in developing our own local MapServer
> app, so some local contacts/experience would be invaluable. If anyone
> feels confident enough to provide training in setting up and developing
> with MapServer (and related products) in Australia I'd also like to know.
> Who knows, you might score a trip to the fabulous Darling Downs ! 
> 
> The second reason is once we get some experience using and developing
> MapServer products we'd like to partake in an Australian MapServer Users
> Group {A-MUG !} (much like the recent thread suggesting a meeting in the
> States) sharing our experiences with peers. 
> 
> Please email me directly and I will disribute to the rest of the group. 
> I'd love to hear from you. 
> 
> Regards, 
> Shaun
> 
> Shaun Kolomeitz 
> 
> eBusiness Manager, Toowoomba City Council 
> 
> Voice: +61 (0)7 4688 6863 
> 
> Fax: +61 (0)7 4638 3830 
> 
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> 
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From matt at aruke.com  Fri Aug  3 04:17:43 2001
From: matt at aruke.com (Matt Carlson)
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 20:17:43 +0900
Subject: [mapserver-users] panning off in 3.3.011?
References: <EFEDJNCHKJMNHPFIBHJDOEENCBAA.pnaciona@gis.umn.edu>
Message-ID: <001001c11c0d$ebf55140$0400a8c0@matt>

i tried this on the mapserver demo at
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ms_demo/demo_init.html .  zoom in a little and
pick a point on the map.  if you keep clicking on the exact same point the
map moves around, quite a bit.  if i keep centering on the same point,
shouldn't the map stay in the same place?  i added a 20% correction on my
application and i get very close results, but it causes development on my
application to be a little funky.  for example, i have to make this
calculation when i plot points on the map.  any idea on what's causing this?

thanks
matt




From ed at topozone.com  Fri Aug  3 05:45:47 2001
From: ed at topozone.com (Ed McNierney)
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:45:47 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] panning off in 3.3.011?
Message-ID: <13858AA1A74F30419F319ACB66A9D122CFAB@mercator.topozone.com>

Matt -

The map should stay in the same place if you keep centering on the same
point AND that point is at the center of the map.  That is, your example
should work if the pixel you're clicking on is EXACTLY at the center of
the map image.  If you click just a bit to the right of center, the map
will keep panning just a bit to the right every time.

It's very difficult, without a grid, to hit the exact center of a
600x600 pixel image.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Carlson [mailto:matt at aruke.com]
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 7:18 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: [mapserver-users] panning off in 3.3.011?


i tried this on the mapserver demo at
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ms_demo/demo_init.html .  zoom in a little
and
pick a point on the map.  if you keep clicking on the exact same point
the
map moves around, quite a bit.  if i keep centering on the same point,
shouldn't the map stay in the same place?  i added a 20% correction on
my
application and i get very close results, but it causes development on
my
application to be a little funky.  for example, i have to make this
calculation when i plot points on the map.  any idea on what's causing
this?

thanks
matt




From armin.burger at territoriumonline.com  Fri Aug  3 05:58:00 2001
From: armin.burger at territoriumonline.com (Armin Burger)
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 14:58:00 +0200
Subject: [mapserver-users] mapplet without complete refresh
Message-ID: <200108031258.OAA25784@efferd.nettz.com>

In the mail archive I found in a posting that it should be possible to use
the mapplet and avoid a complete refresh of the entire page. Only the applet
contents should be updated by zoom actions etc. This should be done with
some JavaScript functions. Can anybody tell me how to do this? Is there an
example in the gallery collection?

My problem is that I want to change parameters like 'mode' or 'zoomdir' via
JavaScript (with buttons), and with every complete refresh these parameters
are reset to their default values. Maybe there's also another solution
writing always back the current parameter settings to the refreshed page. I
assume it could be done with some dummy html page containing all necessary
form parameters that will be read and written into the refreshed page via
javascript. Is this approach feasible?

It could probably also be done with frames but I'd prefer a solution without
them.

Thanks for any hints.

Armin

--
Armin Burger
Territorium Online
Siemensstrasse/Via Siemens 19 - 39100 Bozen/Bolzano - Italia
_


From teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu  Fri Aug  3 07:30:47 2001
From: teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu (teb)
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 09:30:47 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] Mapplet problem - first time user (FWD)
Message-ID: <200108031430.JAA24678@mallit.fr.umn.edu>


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From: "robert brown" <robbrown99 at hotmail.com>
To: mapserver-info at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: Mapplet problem - first time user
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 11:48:18 +0000
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Hello all,
 
I am trying to get the Mapplet working and have followed the 'How 
To' page. However, when I initialise the template file, the user 
interface appears and I
think the applet gets accessed (there are no messages saying that 
it is not being accessed), but I get this message in the browser 
message bar:
 

exception: com.ms.security.SecurityExceptionEx [mapplet.init]: 
cannot access "(my_host_name)": 80

 
I  checked the access settings (I am using PWS on Windows '98), 
and the folder I have the mapplet.class in is accessible. Does 
the mapplet work with
PWS, or only on a 'real' web server? I would be very grateful for 
any suggestions on this problem. Thanks for your time.

Rob Brown

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From Tom.Kralidis at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca  Fri Aug  3 08:00:42 2001
From: Tom.Kralidis at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca (Kralidis, Tom)
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:00:42 -0400 
Subject: [mapserver-users] mapplet without complete refresh
Message-ID: <7CDD7B94357FD5119E800002A537C46E22613D@s5-ccr-r1.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca>

Armin,

Using the mapplet's swap() method will do this.  However, you must control
the coordinate calculations on the client (i.e. JavaScript), as well as
other applicable MapServer variables.

MapServer's CGI version handles these issues (irregular bounding box fitting
to mapwidth/mapheight, etc.).

I believe Steve has an application which does this in the Gallery section of
the MapServer website, called "LandView", however it's quite a job to
implement it.  Perhaps a HOWTO document idea?

Has anyone else got hints?

Thanks

..Tom

=================================
Tom Kralidis
Systems Scientist
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
Tel: (613) 947-1828
http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/
=================================

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Armin Burger [mailto:armin.burger at territoriumonline.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 8:58 AM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: [mapserver-users] mapplet without complete refresh
> 
> 
> In the mail archive I found in a posting that it should be 
> possible to use
> the mapplet and avoid a complete refresh of the entire page. 
> Only the applet
> contents should be updated by zoom actions etc. This should 
> be done with
> some JavaScript functions. Can anybody tell me how to do 
> this? Is there an
> example in the gallery collection?
> 
> My problem is that I want to change parameters like 'mode' or 
> 'zoomdir' via
> JavaScript (with buttons), and with every complete refresh 
> these parameters
> are reset to their default values. Maybe there's also another solution
> writing always back the current parameter settings to the 
> refreshed page. I
> assume it could be done with some dummy html page containing 
> all necessary
> form parameters that will be read and written into the 
> refreshed page via
> javascript. Is this approach feasible?
> 
> It could probably also be done with frames but I'd prefer a 
> solution without
> them.
> 
> Thanks for any hints.
> 
> Armin
> 
> --
> Armin Burger
> Territorium Online
> Siemensstrasse/Via Siemens 19 - 39100 Bozen/Bolzano - Italia
> _
> 


From Tom.Kralidis at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca  Fri Aug  3 08:31:48 2001
From: Tom.Kralidis at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca (Kralidis, Tom)
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:31:48 -0400 
Subject: [mapserver-users] Mapplet problem - first time user (FWD)
Message-ID: <7CDD7B94357FD5119E800002A537C46E22613F@s5-ccr-r1.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca>

Hi,

The "image" parameter tag of the applet contains a hostname which is not
kosher.

Do you have the right hostname to your box?  You can use the "[host]"
MapServer variable in your template.

Also, if you are accessing remote layers, applets cannot access resources
from outside the machine on which they are hosted.

Hope this helps.

..Tom

=================================
Tom Kralidis
Systems Scientist
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
Tel: (613) 947-1828
http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/
=================================

> -----Original Message-----
> From: teb [mailto:teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu]
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 10:31 AM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Cc: robbrown99 at hotmail.com
> Subject: [mapserver-users] Mapplet problem - first time user (FWD)
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> X-Originating-IP: [213.122.116.162]
> From: "robert brown" <robbrown99 at hotmail.com>
> To: mapserver-info at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: Mapplet problem - first time user
> Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 11:48:18 +0000
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Aug 2001 11:48:18.0152 (UTC) 
> FILETIME=[2FE39E80:01C11C12]
> 
> Hello all,
>  
> I am trying to get the Mapplet working and have followed the 'How 
> To' page. However, when I initialise the template file, the user 
> interface appears and I
> think the applet gets accessed (there are no messages saying that 
> it is not being accessed), but I get this message in the browser 
> message bar:
>  
> 
> exception: com.ms.security.SecurityExceptionEx [mapplet.init]: 
> cannot access "(my_host_name)": 80
> 
>  
> I  checked the access settings (I am using PWS on Windows '98), 
> and the folder I have the mapplet.class in is accessible. Does 
> the mapplet work with
> PWS, or only on a 'real' web server? I would be very grateful for 
> any suggestions on this problem. Thanks for your time.
> 
> Rob Brown
> 
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> 
> 


From WMABERN at gwm.sc.edu  Fri Aug  3 09:12:17 2001
From: WMABERN at gwm.sc.edu (Mark Abernathy)
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 12:12:17 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Multiple LabelItems from dropdown?
Message-ID: <sb6a9527.041@GWM.SC.EDU>

Hi folks,
I have an airport layer with different classes of airports within it determined by a SYMBOL attribute in the shape file. I would like to be able to choose the Attribute to display at run time by feeding the labelitem i.e FAAID or Airport Name from a dropdown list box on my html form.  
In other words, I want the user to be able to diplay the Airport name if they want, or the FAA Id, etc... chosen from a dropdown. Can this be done? 

I haven't seen a question on this or an example of this in the archives. 

Does anyone have an example of doing this and what variable should I be passing to the map file and what is the syntax of that, please? Also, any suggestions on the coding of the html drop down? Thanks for any assistance.  Below is a snip of my map file.


# Start of AIRPORT Layer
LAYER
  NAME AIRPORT
  TYPE Point
  DATA AIRPORT
  STATUS DEFAULT
  
  LABELITEM FAAID
  CLASSITEM "SYMBOL"
     
   CLASS  
      EXPRESSION /1/
      NAME "Public Airport"
      SYMBOL 13 
      SIZE 11           # legend symbol size
      COLOR 102 204 000  # legend symbol color - green
    
     LABEL
      COLOR 0 0 0
      OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 153
      POSITION AUTO
      SIZE small
      PARTIALS TRUE
      BUFFER 2
     END
   END # CLASS
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From teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu  Fri Aug  3 09:57:20 2001
From: teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu (teb)
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:57:20 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] OGR STYLEITEM "AUTO" (FWD)
Message-ID: <200108031657.LAA24899@mallit.fr.umn.edu>


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From: "robert brown" <robbrown99 at hotmail.com>
To: mapserver-info at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: OGR STYLEITEM "AUTO"
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 16:03:07 +0000
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Hello,
 
I am trying to implement OGR using MapInfo tables. I have managed 
to get the data read and display it statically. However, when I 
try the STYLEITEM "AUTO" function, I
get the following message:
 
loadLayer(): Unknown identifier. (STYLEITEM):(217) 
 
Part of my map file looks like this:

LAYER
    NAME "Contours_tab"
    TYPE LINE
    STATUS on
    CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
    CONNECTION 
"C:\Inetpub/wwwroot/Robert_Brown_MScDiss/GI/mapserv/gower/Contour
sbounce.tab"
    STYLEITEM "AUTO"
    CLASSITEM "Height"
    CLASS
      NAME "5m Contours (OGR)"
    END
END
 
Does anyone know if this has anything to do with the MapServer 
version? I am using 3.4 - does this auto function work with this 
version? Also, am I right in guessing that
the CLASSITEM refers a particular column in the MapInfo table - 
the HOWTO for OGR does not specify. 
 
Thanks for your help,
 
Rob Brown

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From mckenna at dmsolutions.ca  Fri Aug  3 10:25:12 2001
From: mckenna at dmsolutions.ca (Jeff McKenna)
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 13:25:12 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] OGR STYLEITEM "AUTO" (FWD)
References: <200108031657.LAA24899@mallit.fr.umn.edu>
Message-ID: <3B6ADE78.5040B785@dmsolutions.ca>

> Does anyone know if this has anything to do with the MapServer
> version? I am using 3.4 - does this auto function work with this
> version?
>
OGR support for Mapserver officially began with version 3.5 as discussed
in the introduction of the HOWTO.  You should get a recent 3.5 build.


> Also, am I right in guessing that
> the CLASSITEM refers a particular column in the MapInfo table -
> the HOWTO for OGR does not specify.
>
Yes, CLASSITEM refers to a particular column in the MapInfo table, just
like with shapefiles.

Have fun.



---

Jeff McKenna
GIS Specialist
DM Solutions Group Inc.
http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
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From ed at topozone.com  Fri Aug  3 10:54:16 2001
From: ed at topozone.com (Ed McNierney)
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 13:54:16 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] OGR STYLEITEM "AUTO" (FWD)
Message-ID: <13858AA1A74F30419F319ACB66A9D122CFBC@mercator.topozone.com>

Rob -

You need to be running MapServer 3.5 with OGR support.  You can get the
Win32 binaries at:

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/win32binaries.html

(look at the bottom of the page for the 3.5 builds).

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com
ed at topozone.com
(978) 251-4242


-----Original Message-----
From: teb [mailto:teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu]
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 12:57 PM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Cc: robbrown99 at hotmail.com
Subject: [mapserver-users] OGR STYLEITEM "AUTO" (FWD)



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From: "robert brown" <robbrown99 at hotmail.com>
To: mapserver-info at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: OGR STYLEITEM "AUTO"
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 16:03:07 +0000
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Aug 2001 16:03:07.0625 (UTC) 
FILETIME=[C9200D90:01C11C35]

Hello,
 
I am trying to implement OGR using MapInfo tables. I have managed 
to get the data read and display it statically. However, when I 
try the STYLEITEM "AUTO" function, I
get the following message:
 
loadLayer(): Unknown identifier. (STYLEITEM):(217) 
 
Part of my map file looks like this:

LAYER
    NAME "Contours_tab"
    TYPE LINE
    STATUS on
    CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
    CONNECTION 
"C:\Inetpub/wwwroot/Robert_Brown_MScDiss/GI/mapserv/gower/Contour
sbounce.tab"
    STYLEITEM "AUTO"
    CLASSITEM "Height"
    CLASS
      NAME "5m Contours (OGR)"
    END
END
 
Does anyone know if this has anything to do with the MapServer 
version? I am using 3.4 - does this auto function work with this 
version? Also, am I right in guessing that
the CLASSITEM refers a particular column in the MapInfo table - 
the HOWTO for OGR does not specify. 
 
Thanks for your help,
 
Rob Brown

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From pkishor at GeoAnalytics.com  Fri Aug  3 10:58:59 2001
From: pkishor at GeoAnalytics.com (Puneet Kishor)
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 12:58:59 -0500 
Subject: [mapserver-users] Multiple LabelItems from dropdown?
Message-ID: <C1842CDCFD61D211ABDC00E02922F7C14C6972@MAIL>

Hi Mark,

The quickest way that come to my mind is...

make a separate layer for each of the labels... that is, one airport layer
with airport name as labelitem, another airport layer with faa id as label.
Turn the status to off for all of them.

then use the form to grab the labelitem and turn that specific layer on by
setting its status to on.

hth.

pk/

--
Puneet Kishor
pkishor at geoanalytics.com
www.geoanalytics.com

GeoAnalyics, Inc.
1716 Fordem Ave
Madison WI 53704

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Abernathy [mailto:WMABERN at gwm.sc.edu]
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:12 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: [mapserver-users] Multiple LabelItems from dropdown?


Hi folks,
I have an airport layer with different classes of airports within it
determined by a SYMBOL attribute in the shape file. I would like to be able
to choose the Attribute to display at run time by feeding the labelitem i.e
FAAID or Airport Name from a dropdown list box on my html form.  
In other words, I want the user to be able to diplay the Airport name if
they want, or the FAA Id, etc... chosen from a dropdown. Can this be done? 

I haven't seen a question on this or an example of this in the archives. 

Does anyone have an example of doing this and what variable should I be
passing to the map file and what is the syntax of that, please? Also, any
suggestions on the coding of the html drop down? Thanks for any assistance.
Below is a snip of my map file.


# Start of AIRPORT Layer
LAYER
  NAME AIRPORT
  TYPE Point
  DATA AIRPORT
  STATUS DEFAULT
  
  LABELITEM FAAID
  CLASSITEM "SYMBOL"
     
   CLASS  
      EXPRESSION /1/
      NAME "Public Airport"
      SYMBOL 13 
      SIZE 11           # legend symbol size
      COLOR 102 204 000  # legend symbol color - green
    
     LABEL
      COLOR 0 0 0
      OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 153
      POSITION AUTO
      SIZE small
      PARTIALS TRUE
      BUFFER 2
     END
   END # CLASS


From pramsey at refractions.net  Fri Aug  3 11:48:23 2001
From: pramsey at refractions.net (Paul Ramsey)
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 11:48:23 -0700
Subject: [mapserver-users] Using PostGIS with MapServer
Message-ID: <3B6AF1F7.17EB4F6E@refractions.net>

Here is a brief description of a LAYER entry using PostGIS
(http://postgis.refractions.net) as a spatial data source:

PostGIS provides a SQL interface to large sets of spatial data. The
'CONNECTIONTYPE' is 'postgis'. The spatial data is stored in tables as a
column alongside the attribute data. Correspondingly, for MapServer to
build a PostGIS layer, it needs to know:

- What database to connect to (CONNECTION)
- While table to get the data from (DATA)
- Which column in the table holds the spatial objects (DATA)
- Any extra filtering information used to subset the data to be
displayed (FILTER)

The database connection is governed by the a 'connection string' which
is a standard set of keys and values like this (with the default values
in <>):

"user=<username> password=<password> dbname=<username> host=<localhost>
port=<5432>"

An empty connection string is still valid, and any of the key/value
pairs can be omitted. At a minimum you will generall supply the database
name and username to connect with.

The connection string goes in the 'CONNECTION' parameter of the LAYER
object:

CONNECTION "user=dbuser dbname=gisdatabase"

A complete SQL query which pulls a windowed subset of spatial data from
a PostGIS database might look like this:

a)   SELECT 
b)   geom FROM roads 
c)   WHERE 
d)   geom && 'BOX3D(1423141 1512324 1513214 1652151)'::box3d 
e)   AND
f)   type = 'highway'

When Mapserver pulls data from the database, it constructs this kind of
query. Parts a, c and e are just syntactical. Part d is derived from the
current extents automatically. Parts b and f are supplied in the map
file, in the 'DATA' and 'FILTER' lines of the layer definition
repectively. The example below gives a complete layer, with filtering
and expressions: note that the expressions in the CLASS objects do *not*
use SQL logical syntax, they use Mapserver's internal syntax for
describing logical comparisons.

    LAYER
      CONNECTIONTYPE postgis
      NAME "widehighways"
      # Connect to a remote spatial database
      CONNECTION "user=dbuser dbname=gisdatabase host=bigserver"
      # Get the lines from the 'geom' column of the 'roads' table
      DATA "geom from roads"
      STATUS ON
      TYPE LINE
      # Of the lines in the extents, only render the wide highways
      FILTER "type = 'highway' and numlanes >= 4"
      CLASS
        # Make the superhighways brighter and 2 pixels wide
        EXPRESSION ([numlanes] >= 6)
        COLOR 255 22 22      
        SYMBOL "solid"
        SIZE 2
      END
      CLASS
        # All the rest are darker and only 1 pixel wide
        EXPRESSION ([numlanes] < 6)
        COLOR 205 92 82      
      END
    END

-- 
      __
     /
     | Paul Ramsey
     | Refractions Research
     | Email: pramsey at refractions.net
     | Phone: (250) 885-0632
     \_


From teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu  Sat Aug  4 05:36:22 2001
From: teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu (teb)
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 07:36:22 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] OGR styles and MapInfo Tables - cannot display style (FWD)
Message-ID: <200108041236.HAA25438@mallit.fr.umn.edu>


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From: "robert brown" <robbrown99 at hotmail.com>
To: mapserver-info at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: OGR styles and MapInfo Tables - cannot display style
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 21:59:47 +0000
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Aug 2001 21:59:47.0303 (UTC) 
FILETIME=[9C53C770:01C11C67]

Hello all,
 
I am using OGR and trying to automatically style features created 
from MapInfo Tables. The STYLE "AUTO" function works fine, but 
the resulting features appear black. I
tried saving the MapInfo tables with 'style overidden' features 
(which when reloaded in MapInfo display the saved style), but 
still no joy. I realise that OGR is still
experimental, but in the HOW TO, I read that it should be 
possible to do this. Part of my map file looks like this (I do 
not think I am doing anything wrong here):
 
LAYER
    NAME "Contours_tab"
    TYPE LINE
    STATUS OFF
    CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
    CONNECTION 
"C:\Inetpub/wwwroot/Robert_Brown_MScDiss/GI/mapserv/gower/Contour
sbounce.tab"
    STYLEITEM "AUTO"
    CLASSITEM "Height"
    CLASS
      NAME "5m Contours (OGR)"
    END
END
 
 
Could the answer lie in either the version of MapInfo or 
MapServer (I am using the 3.5 nightly build with OGR support). Or 
perhaps it could be something to do with the way
in which I am saving the MapInfo table? 
 
I would be grateful for any suggestions - I am really stuck after 
spending several hours trying to figure this out.
 
Thanks for your help

Rob
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From vguzman at bigfoot.com  Mon Aug  6 08:34:35 2001
From: vguzman at bigfoot.com (Vladimir =?iso-8859-1?Q?Guzm=E1n?=)
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 10:34:35 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] labels
Message-ID: <3B6EB90B.E8169421@bigfoot.com>

Hi.
I've got a question about labeling features.
I would like to draw annotations alligned with the feature, I mean, if
I've got a river going from south-west to north-east, I would like to
draw the text alligned with the river, and not horizontally as the
mapscript does by default.
There is a way to do that?
Thank you,

Vladimir Guzm?n


From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Mon Aug  6 08:29:39 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 10:29:39 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Multiple LabelItems from dropdown?
Message-ID: <sb6e71ba.090@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

Another option would be to change the label item on-the-fly. You can
use the CGI variable map_airport_labelitem for that purpose. You only
need one layer then. You'll have to write a tiny bit of javascript code
to make that control sticky but that's about it.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> Puneet Kishor <pkishor at GeoAnalytics.com> 08/03/01 12:58PM >>>
Hi Mark,

The quickest way that come to my mind is...

make a separate layer for each of the labels... that is, one airport layer
with airport name as labelitem, another airport layer with faa id as label.
Turn the status to off for all of them.

then use the form to grab the labelitem and turn that specific layer on by
setting its status to on.

hth.

pk/

--
Puneet Kishor
pkishor at geoanalytics.com 
www.geoanalytics.com 

GeoAnalyics, Inc.
1716 Fordem Ave
Madison WI 53704

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Abernathy [mailto:WMABERN at gwm.sc.edu] 
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:12 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu 
Subject: [mapserver-users] Multiple LabelItems from dropdown?


Hi folks,
I have an airport layer with different classes of airports within it
determined by a SYMBOL attribute in the shape file. I would like to be able
to choose the Attribute to display at run time by feeding the labelitem i.e
FAAID or Airport Name from a dropdown list box on my html form.  
In other words, I want the user to be able to diplay the Airport name if
they want, or the FAA Id, etc... chosen from a dropdown. Can this be done? 

I haven't seen a question on this or an example of this in the archives. 

Does anyone have an example of doing this and what variable should I be
passing to the map file and what is the syntax of that, please? Also, any
suggestions on the coding of the html drop down? Thanks for any assistance.
Below is a snip of my map file.


# Start of AIRPORT Layer
LAYER
  NAME AIRPORT
  TYPE Point
  DATA AIRPORT
  STATUS DEFAULT
  
  LABELITEM FAAID
  CLASSITEM "SYMBOL"
     
   CLASS  
      EXPRESSION /1/
      NAME "Public Airport"
      SYMBOL 13 
      SIZE 11           # legend symbol size
      COLOR 102 204 000  # legend symbol color - green
    
     LABEL
      COLOR 0 0 0
      OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 153
      POSITION AUTO
      SIZE small
      PARTIALS TRUE
      BUFFER 2
     END
   END # CLASS



From WMABERN at gwm.sc.edu  Mon Aug  6 09:05:32 2001
From: WMABERN at gwm.sc.edu (Mark Abernathy)
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 12:05:32 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Multiple LabelItems from dropdown?
Message-ID: <sb6e8813.053@GWM.SC.EDU>

This sounds like a better alternative as a few dozen almost duplicated layers would make the map file very large.

Any small examples of the code neccessary to do this would be greatly appreciated as I am somewhat of a newbie in terms of coding, esp. java! Thanks for the input.

Mark

~~~~~~~~~

Another option would be to change the label item on-the-fly. You can
use the CGI variable map_airport_labelitem for that purpose. You only
need one layer then. You'll have to write a tiny bit of javascript code
to make that control sticky but that's about it.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> Puneet Kishor <pkishor at GeoAnalytics.com> 08/03/01 12:58PM >>>
Hi Mark,

The quickest way that come to my mind is...

make a separate layer for each of the labels... that is, one airport layer
with airport name as labelitem, another airport layer with faa id as label.
Turn the status to off for all of them.

then use the form to grab the labelitem and turn that specific layer on by
setting its status to on.

hth.

pk/

--
Puneet Kishor
pkishor at geoanalytics.com 
www.geoanalytics.com 

GeoAnalyics, Inc.
1716 Fordem Ave
Madison WI 53704

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Abernathy [mailto:WMABERN at gwm.sc.edu] 
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:12 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu 
Subject: [mapserver-users] Multiple LabelItems from dropdown?


Hi folks,
I have an airport layer with different classes of airports within it
determined by a SYMBOL attribute in the shape file. I would like to be able
to choose the Attribute to display at run time by feeding the labelitem i.e
FAAID or Airport Name from a dropdown list box on my html form.  
In other words, I want the user to be able to diplay the Airport name if
they want, or the FAA Id, etc... chosen from a dropdown. Can this be done? 

I haven't seen a question on this or an example of this in the archives. 

Does anyone have an example of doing this and what variable should I be
passing to the map file and what is the syntax of that, please? Also, any
suggestions on the coding of the html drop down? Thanks for any assistance.
Below is a snip of my map file.


# Start of AIRPORT Layer
LAYER
  NAME AIRPORT
  TYPE Point
  DATA AIRPORT
  STATUS DEFAULT
  
  LABELITEM FAAID
  CLASSITEM "SYMBOL"
     
   CLASS  
      EXPRESSION /1/
      NAME "Public Airport"
      SYMBOL 13 
      SIZE 11           # legend symbol size
      COLOR 102 204 000  # legend symbol color - green
    
     LABEL
      COLOR 0 0 0
      OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 153
      POSITION AUTO
      SIZE small
      PARTIALS TRUE
      BUFFER 2
     END
   END # CLASS
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From chuynh at ideorlando.org  Mon Aug  6 09:55:35 2001
From: chuynh at ideorlando.org (Chan B. Huynh)
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 12:55:35 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Freetype font
In-Reply-To: <KCEJLLAIGOFFEIFJJOCIMECJCAAA.chuynh@ideorlando.org>
Message-ID: <KCEJLLAIGOFFEIFJJOCIAECPCAAA.chuynh@ideorlando.org>

Hi,
I'm trying to compile mapserver in VC++ 6.0 and hitting problem in compiling
freetype.lib.
Well it's actually not a problem per say but i've following Brian Fischer
instructions in the listserve archive and I got about 12 warnings and no
errors.  Is it what it suppose to be? 'cause it starts to puzzle me.  I
include here the output of VC++ compiler:

Compiling...
freetype.c
..\..\ttgload.c(784) : warning C4018: '<' :
signed/unsigned mismatch
..\..\ttinterp.c(3144) : warning C4018: '!=' :
signed/unsigned mismatch
..\..\ttraster.c(2173) : warning C4244: '=' :
conversion from 'long ' to 'short ', possible loss of
data
Ftxcmap.c
ftxerr18.c
Ftxgasp.c
Ftxkern.c
ftxpost.c
Generating Code...
..\..\ttapi.c(578) : warning C4761: integral size
mismatch in argument; conversion supplied
..\..\ttapi.c(601) : warning C4761: integral size
mismatch in argument; conversion supplied
..\..\ttgload.c(1195) : warning C4761: integral size
mismatch in argument; conversion supplied
..\..\ttobjs.c(575) : warning C4761: integral size
mismatch in argument; conversion supplied
..\..\ttinterp.c(5051) : warning C4761: integral size
mismatch in argument; conversion supplied
..\..\ttinterp.c(5051) : warning C4761: integral size
mismatch in argument; conversion supplied
..\..\ttinterp.c(5066) : warning C4761: integral size
mismatch in argument; conversion supplied
..\..\ttinterp.c(5073) : warning C4761: integral size
mismatch in argument; conversion supplied
..\..\ttobjs.c(1312) : warning C4761: integral size
mismatch in argument; conversion supplied
Creating library...

freetype.lib - 0 error(s), 12 warning(s)

Thanks for your help.
-chan




From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Mon Aug  6 10:14:58 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 12:14:58 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] labels
Message-ID: <sb6e8a4f.043@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

If you've got a linear rendition of your layers it's easy, just set ANGLE AUTO
in your label object. Note that you must use truetype fonts for this to work.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> Vladimir Guzm?n <vguzman at bigfoot.com> 08/06/01 10:34AM >>>
Hi.
I've got a question about labeling features.
I would like to draw annotations alligned with the feature, I mean, if
I've got a river going from south-west to north-east, I would like to
draw the text alligned with the river, and not horizontally as the
mapscript does by default.
There is a way to do that?
Thank you,

Vladimir Guzm?n



From Chip.Hankley at GASAI.Com  Mon Aug  6 11:06:02 2001
From: Chip.Hankley at GASAI.Com (Hankley, Chip)
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 13:06:02 -0500 
Subject: [mapserver-users] labels
Message-ID: <3DFF131E4E6D2D4198CDD758F35A53536E3DF7@postoffice.GASAI.Com>

Check this out in the test suite:

http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/mapserver_demos/tests/auto_rotate/test.html

Chip Hankley

-----Original Message-----
From: Vladimir Guzm?n [mailto:vguzman at bigfoot.com]
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 10:35 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: [mapserver-users] labels


Hi.
I've got a question about labeling features.
I would like to draw annotations alligned with the feature, I mean, if
I've got a river going from south-west to north-east, I would like to
draw the text alligned with the river, and not horizontally as the
mapscript does by default.
There is a way to do that?
Thank you,

Vladimir Guzm?n


From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Mon Aug  6 11:33:40 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 13:33:40 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Multiple LabelItems from dropdown?
Message-ID: <sb6e9cdd.099@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

Basically you either:

  - write a function run after the page has loaded to set the pulldown correctly or
  - use javascript to write the pulldown control in the body of the page

Using the former would be like:

  function set_airport_labelitem(list) {
    var current_value = '[map_airport_labelitem]';

    for(var i=0; i<list.length; i++)
      if(list.options[i].value == current_value)
        list.options[i].selected = true;
  }

and in <body ...> tag you'd add onload="set_airport_labelitem(document.formname.map_airport_labelitem)"
or something like that. You'd write the HTML for the pulldown as normal with nothing or perhaps a default
value selected and the javascript takes care of initializing it. If map_airport_labelitem is passed into MapServer
then [map_airport_labelitem] will contain it's value for use in a template.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> "Mark Abernathy" <WMABERN at gwm.sc.edu> 08/06/01 11:05AM >>>
This sounds like a better alternative as a few dozen almost duplicated layers would make the map file very large.

Any small examples of the code neccessary to do this would be greatly appreciated as I am somewhat of a newbie in terms of coding, esp. java! Thanks for the input.

Mark

~~~~~~~~~

Another option would be to change the label item on-the-fly. You can
use the CGI variable map_airport_labelitem for that purpose. You only
need one layer then. You'll have to write a tiny bit of javascript code
to make that control sticky but that's about it.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> Puneet Kishor <pkishor at GeoAnalytics.com> 08/03/01 12:58PM >>>
Hi Mark,

The quickest way that come to my mind is...

make a separate layer for each of the labels... that is, one airport layer
with airport name as labelitem, another airport layer with faa id as label.
Turn the status to off for all of them.

then use the form to grab the labelitem and turn that specific layer on by
setting its status to on.

hth.

pk/

--
Puneet Kishor
pkishor at geoanalytics.com 
www.geoanalytics.com 

GeoAnalyics, Inc.
1716 Fordem Ave
Madison WI 53704

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Abernathy [mailto:WMABERN at gwm.sc.edu] 
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:12 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu 
Subject: [mapserver-users] Multiple LabelItems from dropdown?


Hi folks,
I have an airport layer with different classes of airports within it
determined by a SYMBOL attribute in the shape file. I would like to be able
to choose the Attribute to display at run time by feeding the labelitem i.e
FAAID or Airport Name from a dropdown list box on my html form.  
In other words, I want the user to be able to diplay the Airport name if
they want, or the FAA Id, etc... chosen from a dropdown. Can this be done? 

I haven't seen a question on this or an example of this in the archives. 

Does anyone have an example of doing this and what variable should I be
passing to the map file and what is the syntax of that, please? Also, any
suggestions on the coding of the html drop down? Thanks for any assistance.
Below is a snip of my map file.


# Start of AIRPORT Layer
LAYER
  NAME AIRPORT
  TYPE Point
  DATA AIRPORT
  STATUS DEFAULT
  
  LABELITEM FAAID
  CLASSITEM "SYMBOL"
     
   CLASS  
      EXPRESSION /1/
      NAME "Public Airport"
      SYMBOL 13 
      SIZE 11           # legend symbol size
      COLOR 102 204 000  # legend symbol color - green
    
     LABEL
      COLOR 0 0 0
      OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 153
      POSITION AUTO
      SIZE small
      PARTIALS TRUE
      BUFFER 2
     END
   END # CLASS



From mckenna at dmsolutions.ca  Mon Aug  6 12:21:24 2001
From: mckenna at dmsolutions.ca (Jeff McKenna)
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 15:21:24 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] OGR Support for TIGER 2000 Data?
References: <13858AA1A74F30419F319ACB66A9D122CFA2@mercator.topozone.com>
Message-ID: <3B6EEE34.16113E07@dmsolutions.ca>


> > I'm trying to use the current (nightly) build of MS 3.5 with OGR
> > support.  I'm working with the GDAL-1.1.5 distribution and I can't get
> > it to read TIGER 2000 data I just downloaded from the Census Bureau's
> > site.  This is on a Windows 2000 system, and OGR otherwise seems OK
> (as
> > far as I can tell) - I'm using the current GDAL11.DLL.
> >
> > Running ogrinfo on a file ("ogrinfo tgr25001.rt1") in the current
> > directory reports "Unable to open datasource 'tgr25001.rt1' with the
> > following drivers..." (and TIGER is listed).
> >

Hi Ed,

Thanks for reporting this to us.  What we've found is that for TIGER
files the OGR Connection string is actually:
<dataset_directory>,<layer_index>. 

For example:

CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
CONNECTION "data/tgr25001,5"

OGRINFO also takes a directory (e.g. "ogrinfo tgr25001").

A small demo of this is now live at
http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/msapps/tig_demo/demo_init.html.  There is a
link to the demo's map file if you're curious to see its layer
definitions.

I am making the necessary additions to the OGR HOWTO as we speak, so
that should be available very soon.




-- 
Jeff McKenna
GIS Specialist
DM Solutions Group Inc.
Ottawa, Ontario
http://www.dmsolutions.ca/


From bitner at gyttja.org  Mon Aug  6 12:40:22 2001
From: bitner at gyttja.org (David W Bitner)
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 14:40:22 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Interactive Select/Query
Message-ID: <003e01c11eaf$a236e060$6f6c2ec0@nohrsc.nws.gov>

I am looking to modify our mapserver application so that we can select a
number of features and then email the list of selected features back to us.
The email part of the problem could be taken care of fairly readily through
Javascript using the clients email program.  The issue that remains is
trying to select out just the features that the user wants to be sent back
to us.  I am sure that something is going to be have to be done using
savequery.  If at all possible, it would be great if things could be added
to/ taken away from the selection by toggling on the feature either one by
one or with a drag box with some sort of visual cue as to what has been
selected.  Does anyone have any examples or advice on this type of
application?

Thanks,
David


*********************************************************************
David William Bitner -- GIS/ Remote Sensing Specialist
National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center
National Weather Service, Chanhassen, MN 55317
work: bitner at nws.gov, http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov
*********************************************************************



From Timothy.Mackey at agso.gov.au  Mon Aug  6 15:34:23 2001
From: Timothy.Mackey at agso.gov.au (Timothy.Mackey at agso.gov.au)
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 08:34:23 +1000 
Subject: [mapserver-users] Australian MapServer Users Listing
Message-ID: <28DE833A781BD511839600D0B772248F4F5196@agsomail1.agso.gov.au>

Hi Shaun,
 
1 timothy.mackey at agso.gov.au <mailto:timothy.mackey at agso.gov.au> 
2 Canberra, ACT
3 http://www.agso.gov.au/map <http://www.agso.gov.au/map> 
4 yes
5 yes - see URL above
6 many different applications - geology/geophysics etc for all of Australia,
database interactivity, etc
7 No. We're government
8a Easy if you know some C programming, unix and use the mailing list
8b Easy if you understand GIS, read the docs and use the mailing list (but
it gets harder as the application you're developing gets more complex)
8c Usually easy (and fast)
 



Tim Mackey 
Internet Applications Manager 
AGSO - Geoscience Australia 
e-mail: timothy.mackey at agso.gov.au 
phone: (02) 6249 9813 
fax: (02) 6249 9984 
 <http://www.agso.gov.au/> http://www.agso.gov.au/ 
ABN: 80 091 799 039 

  ----Original Message-----
From: Shaun Kolomeitz [mailto:S.Kolomeitz at toowoomba.qld.gov.au]
Sent: Friday, 3 August 2001 10:09 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: [mapserver-users] Australian MapServer Users Listing



Appologies to the folk in the rest of the world. 

I am interested in getting email addresses of MapServer users, physical
location and web address (of Mapserver Sites) around Australia. I am
interested in the following info - 

1) email address (eg fred at nurk.com.au) 
2) Location(eg Toowoomba, QLD) 
3) Web Address (eg.http://mygreatpapserver.com.au/Maps) 
4) If you are just interested in hearing what people have done/are doing
with MapServer 
5) If you have installed, setup and developed MapServer products 
6) What sort of problem did you solve/is the application for ? How long did
it take and what resources were involved ? 
7) If you provide MapServer consulting and training services 
8) What you think of the experience of a) Installing Mapserver b) Developing
mapserver and c) using mapserver websites 

The reason being, we are interested in developing our own local MapServer
app, so some local contacts/experience would be invaluable. If anyone feels
confident enough to provide training in setting up and developing with
MapServer (and related products) in Australia I'd also like to know. Who
knows, you might score a trip to the fabulous Darling Downs ! 

The second reason is once we get some experience using and developing
MapServer products we'd like to partake in an Australian MapServer Users
Group {A-MUG !} (much like the recent thread suggesting a meeting in the
States) sharing our experiences with peers. 

Please email me directly and I will disribute to the rest of the group. 
I'd love to hear from you. 

Regards, 
Shaun

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From chuynh at ideorlando.org  Mon Aug  6 17:35:40 2001
From: chuynh at ideorlando.org (Chan B. Huynh)
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 20:35:40 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Need direction for enhancing Mapserver
Message-ID: <KCEJLLAIGOFFEIFJJOCIMEDDCAAA.chuynh@ideorlando.org>

Hi everyone,
First, I'd like to thank all the ones who have helped me with all my puzzle
the past weeks. I now have the digital map of world up and running
beautifully on my NT server with my own source .  I will need a kind soul to
direct me enhancing Mapserver to do the following:

The interface would be very much like the MapServer Applications: MODIS
Download Facility written by TerraSIP and UMN in the gallery link on
mapserver webpage. Instead of only the Great Lakes area, I need to have a
DGM world map like the Australian worldmap in the gallery.  Besides all the
zoom-in/zoom-out/pan east-west-north-south-ne-nw-se=sw function, the
end-user can draw a rectangular-area/drag-a-box on the window map.  The
mapserver will grab that coordinate of the lower-left and upper-right corner
of the selected area and convert that to lat/long.  Once I have this
lat/long, it will be fed into my already-written C++ program which produce a
"peffile" in ASCII format (readable by notepad/wordpad) responsive to user
selected area and avaliable for download from the webbrowser.

Now, having said that, does mapserver support all that I want to do?  If
not, what is the best way I can tackle this?  Is it worth of my time to
re-compile mapserver, play with it and see what I can do with it and add my
part into it?

All suggestions and hints are appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
-chan



From teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu  Mon Aug  6 18:58:44 2001
From: teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu (teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu)
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 20:58:44 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] Arcview Avenue utility (fwd)
Message-ID: <200108070158.UAA26234@mallit.fr.umn.edu>

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Hi there,
I am new to the Mapserver users/community. I have downloaded mapser and its demo and instlled sucessfully. It is working fine. I want to use my own data instead of demo data. I have downloaded the Ross Arcview utility from the user contributed utilities section. I don't know how to setup the defaults value in the mapserver avenue project. I have tried various configuration but, it didn't work.
I use Windows NT 4.0 with service pack 6a, 
My webserver root is d:/inetpub/wwwroot
Mapserver.exe is d:/inetpub/wwwroot/cgi-bin/
My tmp is d:/inetpub/wwwroot/

Please help me if anybody know how to configure the avenue utility for NT system. You help is really appreciated.
Thank you very much.
Regards




P.Saravanakumar
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Coastal Management and Spatial Analyst Specialist
International Ocean Institute of Southern Africa
Botany Department
University of the Western Cape
Bellville 7535
South Africa
Ph: +27 21 9593408
Email : kumar at uwc.ac.za







From mapserver at cubok.com  Mon Aug  6 22:40:08 2001
From: mapserver at cubok.com (Richard Ford)
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 15:40:08 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Compilation/ESRI SHapeLIB
Message-ID: <00a401c11f03$6c27dfc0$01bca8c0@Peach>

G'Day All,

I am experimenting with Mapserver as a way of making some models built with
ArcView and ArcINFO viewable and interactable on the web.

I have compiled the mapserver code ok and it works as a CGI process.
However I have been trying to compile the PROJ libraries as they are needed
by the shaplib libraries.

And I need the shapelib libraries as they are what allow me to load esri
shapefils.  Correct me if I am wrong.

Now when I ./configure I point to freetype and libtiff and they are found
and work OK.

I also have compiled and installed the PROJ libraries.

Now the ./.configure won't work if it can't find the header and library
files.  I point to the right directory and the ./configure works as does the
compile.

However when I try and run it in Apache I get:

*********************************************************************
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable
to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, root at localhost.localdomain and
inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done
that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.


Apache/1.3.20 Server at localhost Port 80

***********************************************************************

The server log has this:

***********************************************************************

mapserv: error while loading shared libraries: libproj.so.0: cannot load
shared object file: No such file or directory
mapserv: error while loading shared libraries: libproj.so.0: cannot load
shared object file: No such file or directory
[Tue Aug  7 15:19:45 2001] [error] [client 192.168.188.1] Premature end of
script headers: /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv
[Tue Aug  7 15:19:45 2001] [error] [client 192.168.188.1] Premature end of
script headers: /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv

************************************************************************

I take it that the libraries can't be found or loaded?  With PROJ disabled
the mapserv runs fine.

The libraries and all their symbolic links have the correct read and execute
permissions.

So why or what is wrong?  :)

As a matter of side interest.  When I compiled and installed the PROJ
library, the shapelib RPM would not want to install as it had a dependency
problem finding the require PROJ libraries.

However if I installed the PROJ libraries from an RPM and not from source,
the shapelib RPM would install OK.  As would the compilation of mapserver.
However I would still get the above apache error?

Is this a libtool or some other problem?

>From what I have seen MapServer is the business.... I am keen to get my
clients ArcView stuff on the web and I hope I can with MapServer!

Cheers,
Richard.






From sylvain.speh at cemagref.fr  Mon Aug  6 23:16:28 2001
From: sylvain.speh at cemagref.fr (Speh Sylvain)
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 08:16:28 +0200 
Subject: [mapserver-users] How to color a polygon depending on one of its DBF attribute ?
Message-ID: <F17CAFD56F9CD1118E3A0060972339200168BF2A@lassolas.clermont.cemagref.fr>

Hi list,

Whichever is the map I'm looking at, they are all made on the same pattern :
one class --> one color.
I wonder how to get a layer whose polygons are filled with the color of an
attribute or from a computed expression.
Imagine there is a population layer ( 100 citizens for the less populous
polygon , 10,000 for the more ).

How can I color them like
COLOR 43 196 x
with x = 0 for 100 and x = 255 for 10,000, or else ( like/dark polygon ) ?


Thanks for your advices.


From mckenna at dmsolutions.ca  Tue Aug  7 06:01:05 2001
From: mckenna at dmsolutions.ca (Jeff McKenna)
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 09:01:05 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] OGR Support for TIGER 2000 Data?
References: <13858AA1A74F30419F319ACB66A9D122CFE5@mercator.topozone.com>
Message-ID: <3B6FE691.FABC6F34@dmsolutions.ca>


> 
> Thank for figuring that out!  However, I still can't get it to work.
> I'm running the OGR tools I built (under Windows 2000) in the GDAL 1.1.5
> distribution.  OGRINFO still refuses to recognize the data set.  Are you
> using a different OGR?
> 

Hi Ed,

I just checked out the latest CVS version of GDAL (v1.1.5) and built it
(under Windows NT), and OGRINFO works fine for me.  Hmm.  I placed
OGRINFO into the directory where the TIGER data resides (i.e. placed
TGR25001.RT1, TGR25001.RT2... in the same directory as OGRINFO).  The
syntax I used for OGRINFO is:
$ ogrinfo full/path/to/data

This worked fine for me.  Maybe someone else has some ideas?




-- 

Jeff McKenna
GIS Specialist
DM Solutions Group Inc.
Ottawa, Ontario
http://www.dmsolutions.ca/


From mckenna at dmsolutions.ca  Tue Aug  7 06:16:15 2001
From: mckenna at dmsolutions.ca (Jeff McKenna)
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 09:16:15 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Re: OGR
References: <LAW2-F71iqv3i6ZEAKJ0000ecad@hotmail.com>
Message-ID: <3B6FEA1F.FD3641D9@dmsolutions.ca>


> 
> Thanks for the information, I have now installed version 3.5 - works
> fine. I still cannot get the automatic styling to work though - this
> time the features do actually load, but no style information is pulled
> from the MapInfo table - I have made sure that the features have been
> given style information in MapInfo with 'style override'. I realise
> that OGR isn't fully working yet, but is there only a specific subset
> of style information that is supported by OGR for MapInfo files (e.g.
> colour, pattern, software version???). I would be very grateful if you
> could shed some light on this - my MSc GIS dissertation is due very
> shortly! Thanks for your time -sorry if I have bothered you.
> 

Hi Rob,

I am simply a user and documentation guy for OGR & Mapserver, so I can't
answer your "style information" question (maybe others can?).  However,
if you can send me some of your data I will take a look at it with you.



-- 

Jeff McKenna
GIS Specialist
DM Solutions Group Inc.
Ottawa, Ontario
http://www.dmsolutions.ca/


From pkishor at GeoAnalytics.com  Tue Aug  7 06:36:42 2001
From: pkishor at GeoAnalytics.com (Puneet Kishor)
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 08:36:42 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] How to color a polygon depending on one of its DBF attribute ?
In-Reply-To: <F17CAFD56F9CD1118E3A0060972339200168BF2A@lassolas.clermont.cemagref.fr>
Message-ID: <200108071338.IAA22667@lists.gis.umn.edu>


On Tuesday, August 7, 2001, at 01:16  AM, Speh Sylvain wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> Whichever is the map I'm looking at, they are all made on the same 
> pattern :
> one class --> one color.
> I wonder how to get a layer whose polygons are filled with the color of 
> an
> attribute or from a computed expression.
> Imagine there is a population layer ( 100 citizens for the less populous
> polygon , 10,000 for the more ).
>
> How can I color them like
> COLOR 43 196 x
> with x = 0 for 100 and x = 255 for 10,000, or else ( like/dark 
> polygon ) ?
>
>

Well, you will still have one class --> one color. However, no one is 
stopping you from breaking the layer into multiple classes. So, you have 
a pop layer, and you have classes like so (check the correct syntax)...

classitem pop
class name 0-100
expression /0-100/     # check the syntax for reg exps, or use sql kinda 
syntax
color firstcolor

class name 100-199
expression /100-199/
color secondcolor

class name 200-299
expression /200-299/
color thirdcolor

you get the gist.


as a bonus, if you are drawing the legend, you will also get a nicely 
formatted, labeled legend.

have fun,

pk/


From jimburnett at ntelos.net  Tue Aug  7 07:47:59 2001
From: jimburnett at ntelos.net (Jim Burnett)
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 10:47:59 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Zooming and Panning using PHP/MapScript
References: <005301c10a57$c9d7cc40$8200a8c0@nichebox1>
Message-ID: <004a01c11f4f$f39e7490$2f01a8c0@morpheus>

What versions of GD and mapserver should this run properly under?
I can get the initial map to come up when I first goto the script, then when
I click or try to change to another map file i have, it show the wonderful
red "X".

thanks!

-jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Martinson" <cathode at nichebox.com>
To: "'Hossam Abdel Sayed'" <hossam at GeoAnalytics.com>;
<mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 6:21 PM
Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Zooming and Panning using PHP/MapScript


> Hossam,
>
> I have a small sample where I've been playing with functionality at:
>
> http://maps.nichebox.com/ This uses PHP4 sessions to maintain current
> and max extents.
>
> Source for both files used can be found at:
> http://maps.nichebox.com/mapserver/
>
> It's small and simple, but it works. Hope this helps.
>
> Also, I'll be putting up a public QA database somewhere on this site
> later this afternoon. Hopefully we can get some good user-to-user Q & A
> going for specific implementation problems and ideas. Will post that URL
> shortly.
>
> Rob Martinson
> Nichebox - http://www.nichebox.com
> Development - http://dev.nichebox.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> > [mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu] On Behalf Of
> > Hossam Abdel Sayed
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 10:46 PM
> > To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> > Subject: [mapserver-users] Zooming and Panning using PHP/MapScript
> >
> >
> > Hi Folks
> >
> > I'm trying to use PHP MapScript to zoom in/out and pan
> > through the map by clicking on the map image. I gues that's
> > pretty basic, but I'm still new to PHP/MapScript.
> >
> > I'm looking to basic zooming in/out or panning, pretty
> > similar to the traditional Mapserver demo.
> >
> > I'll apreciate your help
> >
> > Hossam
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>



From jimburnett at ntelos.net  Tue Aug  7 07:52:45 2001
From: jimburnett at ntelos.net (Jim Burnett)
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 10:52:45 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] seg faults
Message-ID: <005501c11f50$9e448560$2f01a8c0@morpheus>

I am getting these segmentation faults every now and then, when zooming, or panning. 

[Tue Aug  7 10:49:35 2001] [notice] child pid 18273 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Aug  7 10:51:00 2001] [notice] child pid 18276 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)


-jim-

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From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Tue Aug  7 07:52:12 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 09:52:12 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] How to color a polygon depending on one
	of its DBF attribute ?
Message-ID: <sb6fba53.067@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

Just to clarify, the syntax below is kinda wrong. Regex is best for strings not
ranges, use logical expressions, eg.

CLASS
  COLOR 43 196 0
  EXPRESSION ([POP] >= 0 AND [POP] < 10000)
END

CLASS
  COLOR 43 196 255
  EXPRESSION ([POP] >= 10000)
END

Of course there are other options depend on exactly what is in the population 
column (i.e. actual population totals vs a population class).

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> Puneet Kishor <pkishor at GeoAnalytics.com> 08/07/01 08:36AM >>>

On Tuesday, August 7, 2001, at 01:16  AM, Speh Sylvain wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> Whichever is the map I'm looking at, they are all made on the same 
> pattern :
> one class --> one color.
> I wonder how to get a layer whose polygons are filled with the color of 
> an
> attribute or from a computed expression.
> Imagine there is a population layer ( 100 citizens for the less populous
> polygon , 10,000 for the more ).
>
> How can I color them like
> COLOR 43 196 x
> with x = 0 for 100 and x = 255 for 10,000, or else ( like/dark 
> polygon ) ?
>
>

Well, you will still have one class --> one color. However, no one is 
stopping you from breaking the layer into multiple classes. So, you have 
a pop layer, and you have classes like so (check the correct syntax)...

classitem pop
class name 0-100
expression /0-100/     # check the syntax for reg exps, or use sql kinda 
syntax
color firstcolor

class name 100-199
expression /100-199/
color secondcolor

class name 200-299
expression /200-299/
color thirdcolor

you get the gist.


as a bonus, if you are drawing the legend, you will also get a nicely 
formatted, labeled legend.

have fun,

pk/



From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Tue Aug  7 07:54:37 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 09:54:37 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] seg faults
Message-ID: <sb6fbaf1.080@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

Assuming these are in the webserver logs these are webserver errors not mapserver errors.
If the cgi version seg faults you'll see a 500 server error in the error log, not this.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> "Jim Burnett" <jimburnett at ntelos.net> 08/07/01 09:52AM >>>
I am getting these segmentation faults every now and then, when zooming, or panning. 

[Tue Aug  7 10:49:35 2001] [notice] child pid 18273 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Aug  7 10:51:00 2001] [notice] child pid 18276 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)


-jim-




From jimburnett at ntelos.net  Tue Aug  7 08:02:43 2001
From: jimburnett at ntelos.net (Jim Burnett)
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:02:43 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] seg faults
References: <sb6fbaf1.081@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>
Message-ID: <005c01c11f52$029eb7a0$2f01a8c0@morpheus>

This is PHP Mapscript.
And its just every now and then. Not consistent,


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Lime" <steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us>
To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>; <jimburnett at ntelos.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] seg faults


Assuming these are in the webserver logs these are webserver errors not
mapserver errors.
If the cgi version seg faults you'll see a 500 server error in the error
log, not this.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> "Jim Burnett" <jimburnett at ntelos.net> 08/07/01 09:52AM >>>
I am getting these segmentation faults every now and then, when zooming, or
panning.

[Tue Aug  7 10:49:35 2001] [notice] child pid 18273 exit signal Segmentation
fault (11)
[Tue Aug  7 10:51:00 2001] [notice] child pid 18276 exit signal Segmentation
fault (11)


-jim-






From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Tue Aug  7 07:59:18 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 09:59:18 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Compilation/ESRI SHapeLIB
Message-ID: <sb6fbc08.096@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

The mapserver binary can't find the shared libs it needs. The easiest way to
fix this is to use the Apache directive SetEnv to set an environment variable
called LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Add something like:

  SetEnv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:..other dirs with shared libraries...

to httpd.conf and restart.

Note that you don't need shapelib, there's a bastardized version already included
in the distribution.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> "Richard Ford" <mapserver at cubok.com> 08/07/01 12:40AM >>>
G'Day All,

I am experimenting with Mapserver as a way of making some models built with
ArcView and ArcINFO viewable and interactable on the web.

I have compiled the mapserver code ok and it works as a CGI process.
However I have been trying to compile the PROJ libraries as they are needed
by the shaplib libraries.

And I need the shapelib libraries as they are what allow me to load esri
shapefils.  Correct me if I am wrong.

Now when I ./configure I point to freetype and libtiff and they are found
and work OK.

I also have compiled and installed the PROJ libraries.

Now the ./.configure won't work if it can't find the header and library
files.  I point to the right directory and the ./configure works as does the
compile.

However when I try and run it in Apache I get:

*********************************************************************
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable
to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, root at localhost.localdomain and
inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done
that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.


Apache/1.3.20 Server at localhost Port 80

***********************************************************************

The server log has this:

***********************************************************************

mapserv: error while loading shared libraries: libproj.so.0: cannot load
shared object file: No such file or directory
mapserv: error while loading shared libraries: libproj.so.0: cannot load
shared object file: No such file or directory
[Tue Aug  7 15:19:45 2001] [error] [client 192.168.188.1] Premature end of
script headers: /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv
[Tue Aug  7 15:19:45 2001] [error] [client 192.168.188.1] Premature end of
script headers: /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv

************************************************************************

I take it that the libraries can't be found or loaded?  With PROJ disabled
the mapserv runs fine.

The libraries and all their symbolic links have the correct read and execute
permissions.

So why or what is wrong?  :)

As a matter of side interest.  When I compiled and installed the PROJ
library, the shapelib RPM would not want to install as it had a dependency
problem finding the require PROJ libraries.

However if I installed the PROJ libraries from an RPM and not from source,
the shapelib RPM would install OK.  As would the compilation of mapserver.
However I would still get the above apache error?

Is this a libtool or some other problem?

>From what I have seen MapServer is the business.... I am keen to get my
clients ArcView stuff on the web and I hope I can with MapServer!

Cheers,
Richard.







From mapserver at cubok.com  Tue Aug  7 08:42:45 2001
From: mapserver at cubok.com (Richard Ford)
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 01:42:45 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Compilation/ESRI SHapeLIB
References: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0108071130330.9512-100000@esker>
Message-ID: <025101c11f57$9bb28bb0$01bca8c0@Peach>

I did do the ld.so.conf addition,

I did not know about the  /sbin/ldcong command.

As Stephen pointed out there is shape file support built in.  Will I still
need PROJ.  What else is PROJ used for and should I really consider it a
mandatory library?

Cheers,
Richard.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Schlagel" <joel at crrel.usace.army.mil>
To: <mapserver at cubok.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 1:33 AM
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Compilation/ESRI SHapeLIB


>
>
> proj by default is added to /usr/local/lub, which is not necessarily in
> default library search path, so you could add
>
> /usr/local/lib
>
> to the file
>
> /etc/ld.so.conf
>
> and run
>
> /sbin/ldconfig
>
>
> joel
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Joel.D.Schlagel at usace.army.mil
> 603-646-4387
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Stephen Lime wrote:
>
> > The mapserver binary can't find the shared libs it needs. The easiest
way to
> > fix this is to use the Apache directive SetEnv to set an environment
variable
> > called LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Add something like:
> >
> >   SetEnv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:..other dirs with
shared libraries...
> >
> > to httpd.conf and restart.
> >
> > Note that you don't need shapelib, there's a bastardized version already
included
> > in the distribution.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > Stephen Lime
> > Internet Applications Analyst
> >
> > Minnesota DNR
> > 500 Lafayette Road
> > St. Paul, MN 55155
> > 651-297-2937
> >
> > >>> "Richard Ford" <mapserver at cubok.com> 08/07/01 12:40AM >>>
> > G'Day All,
> >
> > I am experimenting with Mapserver as a way of making some models built
with
> > ArcView and ArcINFO viewable and interactable on the web.
> >
> > I have compiled the mapserver code ok and it works as a CGI process.
> > However I have been trying to compile the PROJ libraries as they are
needed
> > by the shaplib libraries.
> >
> > And I need the shapelib libraries as they are what allow me to load esri
> > shapefils.  Correct me if I am wrong.
> >
> > Now when I ./configure I point to freetype and libtiff and they are
found
> > and work OK.
> >
> > I also have compiled and installed the PROJ libraries.
> >
> > Now the ./.configure won't work if it can't find the header and library
> > files.  I point to the right directory and the ./configure works as does
the
> > compile.
> >
> > However when I try and run it in Apache I get:
> >
> > *********************************************************************
> > Internal Server Error
> > The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was
unable
> > to complete your request.
> > Please contact the server administrator, root at localhost.localdomain and
> > inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have
done
> > that may have caused the error.
> >
> > More information about this error may be available in the server error
log.
> >
> >
> > Apache/1.3.20 Server at localhost Port 80
> >
> > ***********************************************************************
> >
> > The server log has this:
> >
> > ***********************************************************************
> >
> > mapserv: error while loading shared libraries: libproj.so.0: cannot load
> > shared object file: No such file or directory
> > mapserv: error while loading shared libraries: libproj.so.0: cannot load
> > shared object file: No such file or directory
> > [Tue Aug  7 15:19:45 2001] [error] [client 192.168.188.1] Premature end
of
> > script headers: /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv
> > [Tue Aug  7 15:19:45 2001] [error] [client 192.168.188.1] Premature end
of
> > script headers: /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv
> >
> > ************************************************************************
> >
> > I take it that the libraries can't be found or loaded?  With PROJ
disabled
> > the mapserv runs fine.
> >
> > The libraries and all their symbolic links have the correct read and
execute
> > permissions.
> >
> > So why or what is wrong?  :)
> >
> > As a matter of side interest.  When I compiled and installed the PROJ
> > library, the shapelib RPM would not want to install as it had a
dependency
> > problem finding the require PROJ libraries.
> >
> > However if I installed the PROJ libraries from an RPM and not from
source,
> > the shapelib RPM would install OK.  As would the compilation of
mapserver.
> > However I would still get the above apache error?
> >
> > Is this a libtool or some other problem?
> >
> > From what I have seen MapServer is the business.... I am keen to get my
> > clients ArcView stuff on the web and I hope I can with MapServer!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Richard.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>



From mapserver at cubok.com  Tue Aug  7 08:41:17 2001
From: mapserver at cubok.com (Richard Ford)
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 01:41:17 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Compilation/ESRI SHapeLIB
References: <sb6fbc08.095@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>
Message-ID: <024b01c11f57$66f17300$01bca8c0@Peach>

What do you mean by bastardised??

Is it limited or does it just suffice for basic reading and writing?

Cheers,
Richard.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Lime" <steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us>
To: <mapserver at cubok.com>; <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 12:59 AM
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Compilation/ESRI SHapeLIB


The mapserver binary can't find the shared libs it needs. The easiest way to
fix this is to use the Apache directive SetEnv to set an environment
variable
called LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Add something like:

  SetEnv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:..other dirs with
shared libraries...

to httpd.conf and restart.

Note that you don't need shapelib, there's a bastardized version already
included
in the distribution.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> "Richard Ford" <mapserver at cubok.com> 08/07/01 12:40AM >>>
G'Day All,

I am experimenting with Mapserver as a way of making some models built with
ArcView and ArcINFO viewable and interactable on the web.

I have compiled the mapserver code ok and it works as a CGI process.
However I have been trying to compile the PROJ libraries as they are needed
by the shaplib libraries.

And I need the shapelib libraries as they are what allow me to load esri
shapefils.  Correct me if I am wrong.

Now when I ./configure I point to freetype and libtiff and they are found
and work OK.

I also have compiled and installed the PROJ libraries.

Now the ./.configure won't work if it can't find the header and library
files.  I point to the right directory and the ./configure works as does the
compile.

However when I try and run it in Apache I get:

*********************************************************************
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable
to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, root at localhost.localdomain and
inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done
that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.


Apache/1.3.20 Server at localhost Port 80

***********************************************************************

The server log has this:

***********************************************************************

mapserv: error while loading shared libraries: libproj.so.0: cannot load
shared object file: No such file or directory
mapserv: error while loading shared libraries: libproj.so.0: cannot load
shared object file: No such file or directory
[Tue Aug  7 15:19:45 2001] [error] [client 192.168.188.1] Premature end of
script headers: /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv
[Tue Aug  7 15:19:45 2001] [error] [client 192.168.188.1] Premature end of
script headers: /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv

************************************************************************

I take it that the libraries can't be found or loaded?  With PROJ disabled
the mapserv runs fine.

The libraries and all their symbolic links have the correct read and execute
permissions.

So why or what is wrong?  :)

As a matter of side interest.  When I compiled and installed the PROJ
library, the shapelib RPM would not want to install as it had a dependency
problem finding the require PROJ libraries.

However if I installed the PROJ libraries from an RPM and not from source,
the shapelib RPM would install OK.  As would the compilation of mapserver.
However I would still get the above apache error?

Is this a libtool or some other problem?

>From what I have seen MapServer is the business.... I am keen to get my
clients ArcView stuff on the web and I hope I can with MapServer!

Cheers,
Richard.









From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Tue Aug  7 08:43:07 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 11:43:07 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Re: OGR
References: <LAW2-F71iqv3i6ZEAKJ0000ecad@hotmail.com> <3B6FEA1F.FD3641D9@dmsolutions.ca>
Message-ID: <3B700C8B.8FC8FEBD@dmsolutions.ca>

> >
> > Thanks for the information, I have now installed version 3.5 - works
> > fine. I still cannot get the automatic styling to work though - this
> > time the features do actually load, but no style information is pulled
> > from the MapInfo table - I have made sure that the features have been
> > given style information in MapInfo with 'style override'. 


What's this "style override" thing?  I never heard of it... and it may
well be the source of your problems.  You have nothing special to do to
your TAB files to get their colors to load in MapServer... colors and
styles are written to the TAB dataset by default in MapInfo.


> I realise
> > that OGR isn't fully working yet, but is there only a specific subset
> > of style information that is supported by OGR for MapInfo files (e.g.
> > colour, pattern, software version???). 

OGR is fully working... I mean there is always room for improvement but
all the most common stuff is supported.  See the section "Mapping of OGR
Style Info to the Mapserver CLASS Members" in the OGR-HOWTO for the
complete list of what's supported with the STYLEITEM "AUTO":
  http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc/ogr-howto.html#d35e366

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.


From Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca  Tue Aug  7 08:52:18 2001
From: Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca (Doyon, Jean-Francois)
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:52:18 -0400 
Subject: [mapserver-users] seg faults
Message-ID: <7CDD7B94357FD5119E800002A537C46E22FB51@s5-ccr-r1.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca>

I'll assume this is with PHP/MapScript ?

I used to get those as well.  I noticed them when I was doing load testing
on PHP/MapScript, and found that every once in a while one of the processes
would segfault.  Never really tracked down the problem, although it was
suggested it may be SWIG related ...

J.F.

> ----------
> From: 	Jim Burnett[SMTP:jimburnett at ntelos.net]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, August 07, 2001 10:52 AM
> To: 	mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: 	[mapserver-users] seg faults
> 
> I am getting these segmentation faults every now and then, when zooming,
> or panning. 
>  
> [Tue Aug  7 10:49:35 2001] [notice] child pid 18273 exit signal
> Segmentation fault (11)
> [Tue Aug  7 10:51:00 2001] [notice] child pid 18276 exit signal
> Segmentation fault (11)
>  
>  
> -jim-
>  
> 


From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Tue Aug  7 08:55:53 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 11:55:53 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] seg faults
References: <sb6fbaf1.081@co5.dnr.state.mn.us> <005c01c11f52$029eb7a0$2f01a8c0@morpheus>
Message-ID: <3B700F89.3669B3BA@dmsolutions.ca>

Jim Burnett wrote:
> 
> This is PHP Mapscript.
> And its just every now and then. Not consistent,
> 

Did you check FAQ #4.5 and 4.6?
http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/mapserver/php_mapscript/php_mapscript_faq.html#4.5

If that's not your case then please provide more details:

- OS
- Web Server
- PHP Version
- PHP installed as CGI or as a module?
- MapServer configure options
- Do you dl() php_mapscript or load it in an 'extension' line in
php.ini?
- Can you try to isolate the location of the crash using print
statements in your script? i.e. Which PHP call causes the crash.

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.


From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Tue Aug  7 09:01:12 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 12:01:12 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Compilation/ESRI SHapeLIB
References: <sb6fbc08.096@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>
Message-ID: <3B7010C8.A16FB8AA@dmsolutions.ca>

Stephen Lime wrote:
> 
> The mapserver binary can't find the shared libs it needs. The easiest way to
> fix this is to use the Apache directive SetEnv to set an environment variable
> called LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Add something like:
> 
>   SetEnv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:..other dirs with shared libraries...
> 
> to httpd.conf and restart.
> 

See also 
http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/mapserver/php_mapscript/php_mapscript_faq.html#4.2

It's about PHP MapScript but it applies to your case as well.

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.



From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Tue Aug  7 09:10:30 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 11:10:30 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Compilation/ESRI SHapeLIB
Message-ID: <sb6fcca7.089@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

It's a modified version of Franks original version. It reads directly into MapServer
shapeObj structs and has a few other functions added to support MapScript. It
doesn't support the 3D shapes that shapelib 2.0 does. We will probably add 
support for measured shapes at some time.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> "Richard Ford" <mapserver at cubok.com> 08/07/01 10:41AM >>>
What do you mean by bastardised??

Is it limited or does it just suffice for basic reading and writing?

Cheers,
Richard.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Lime" <steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us>
To: <mapserver at cubok.com>; <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 12:59 AM
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Compilation/ESRI SHapeLIB


The mapserver binary can't find the shared libs it needs. The easiest way to
fix this is to use the Apache directive SetEnv to set an environment
variable
called LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Add something like:

  SetEnv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:..other dirs with
shared libraries...

to httpd.conf and restart.

Note that you don't need shapelib, there's a bastardized version already
included
in the distribution.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> "Richard Ford" <mapserver at cubok.com> 08/07/01 12:40AM >>>
G'Day All,

I am experimenting with Mapserver as a way of making some models built with
ArcView and ArcINFO viewable and interactable on the web.

I have compiled the mapserver code ok and it works as a CGI process.
However I have been trying to compile the PROJ libraries as they are needed
by the shaplib libraries.

And I need the shapelib libraries as they are what allow me to load esri
shapefils.  Correct me if I am wrong.

Now when I ./configure I point to freetype and libtiff and they are found
and work OK.

I also have compiled and installed the PROJ libraries.

Now the ./.configure won't work if it can't find the header and library
files.  I point to the right directory and the ./configure works as does the
compile.

However when I try and run it in Apache I get:

*********************************************************************
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable
to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, root at localhost.localdomain and
inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done
that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.


Apache/1.3.20 Server at localhost Port 80

***********************************************************************

The server log has this:

***********************************************************************

mapserv: error while loading shared libraries: libproj.so.0: cannot load
shared object file: No such file or directory
mapserv: error while loading shared libraries: libproj.so.0: cannot load
shared object file: No such file or directory
[Tue Aug  7 15:19:45 2001] [error] [client 192.168.188.1] Premature end of
script headers: /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv
[Tue Aug  7 15:19:45 2001] [error] [client 192.168.188.1] Premature end of
script headers: /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv

************************************************************************

I take it that the libraries can't be found or loaded?  With PROJ disabled
the mapserv runs fine.

The libraries and all their symbolic links have the correct read and execute
permissions.

So why or what is wrong?  :)

As a matter of side interest.  When I compiled and installed the PROJ
library, the shapelib RPM would not want to install as it had a dependency
problem finding the require PROJ libraries.

However if I installed the PROJ libraries from an RPM and not from source,
the shapelib RPM would install OK.  As would the compilation of mapserver.
However I would still get the above apache error?

Is this a libtool or some other problem?

>From what I have seen MapServer is the business.... I am keen to get my
clients ArcView stuff on the web and I hope I can with MapServer!

Cheers,
Richard.









From v at w.cl  Tue Aug  7 09:12:34 2001
From: v at w.cl (Vinko Vrsalovic B.)
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 12:12:34 -0400 (CLT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] Compilation/ESRI SHapeLIB
In-Reply-To: <00a401c11f03$6c27dfc0$01bca8c0@Peach> from "Richard Ford" at Aug 07, 2001 03:40:08 PM
Message-ID: <200108071612.f77GCYO09408@antonia.nn.cl>

 
> ***********************************************************************
> 
> mapserv: error while loading shared libraries: libproj.so.0: cannot load
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> mapserv: error while loading shared libraries: libproj.so.0: cannot load
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> [Tue Aug  7 15:19:45 2001] [error] [client 192.168.188.1] Premature end of
> script headers: /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv
> [Tue Aug  7 15:19:45 2001] [error] [client 192.168.188.1] Premature end of
> script headers: /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv
> 
> ************************************************************************
> 
> I take it that the libraries can't be found or loaded?  With PROJ disabled
> the mapserv runs fine.
 
> So why or what is wrong?  :)

Maybe you need to add the directory where libproj is to /etc/ld.conf and
run ldconfig afterwards.
 
-- 
V. <v at w.cl>


From warmerdam at pobox.com  Tue Aug  7 10:14:56 2001
From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam)
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 13:14:56 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Compilation/ESRI SHapeLIB
References: <sb6fbc08.095@co5.dnr.state.mn.us> <024b01c11f57$66f17300$01bca8c0@Peach>
Message-ID: <3B702210.92BD181C@pobox.com>

Richard Ford wrote:
> 
> What do you mean by bastardised??
> 
> Is it limited or does it just suffice for basic reading and writing?

Richard, 

Steve has optimized the shapelib code, partly by having it directly
transform the incoming data into the internal format for MapServer instead
of going through the intermediate format used by shapelib.  It should read
pretty much anything that the regular shapelib reads, but won't include some
of the latest shapelib tweaks.  

> As Stephen pointed out there is shape file support built in.  Will I still
> need PROJ.  What else is PROJ used for and should I really consider it a
> mandatory library?

If you have all your data into one coordinate system ... the coordinate system
you want to serve data in, then you don't need PROJ.4 libraries for MapServer.

Best regards,

---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com
light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Programmer for Rent


From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Tue Aug  7 10:25:49 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 12:25:49 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] mapplet without complete refresh
Message-ID: <sb6fde60.044@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

Actually the client must handle all aspects of the coordinate calculations, including
box fitting. Basically you want to hand a "perfect" url off to the mapping engine so
that no adjustment is necessary. I've got a couple examples running:

  http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/landview 
  http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/compass/view_java.html 

Both of these use the mapplet and a javascript library I wrote to do the coordinate
management and so on. View and save the source in Netscape of either of the
above applications to study how this is done. The javascript and java code can
be nabbed at:

  http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/javascript 
  http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/java/mapplet 

The core code is straight forward, it's making pan/zoom/info buttons behave that
make things messy. There is no howto for this, not yet anyway (authors?) but I'd be
glad to answer specific questions.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> "Kralidis, Tom" <Tom.Kralidis at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca> 08/03/01 10:00AM >>>
Armin,

Using the mapplet's swap() method will do this.  However, you must control
the coordinate calculations on the client (i.e. JavaScript), as well as
other applicable MapServer variables.

MapServer's CGI version handles these issues (irregular bounding box fitting
to mapwidth/mapheight, etc.).

I believe Steve has an application which does this in the Gallery section of
the MapServer website, called "LandView", however it's quite a job to
implement it.  Perhaps a HOWTO document idea?

Has anyone else got hints?

Thanks

..Tom

=================================
Tom Kralidis
Systems Scientist
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
Tel: (613) 947-1828
http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ 
=================================

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Armin Burger [mailto:armin.burger at territoriumonline.com] 
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 8:58 AM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu 
> Subject: [mapserver-users] mapplet without complete refresh
> 
> 
> In the mail archive I found in a posting that it should be 
> possible to use
> the mapplet and avoid a complete refresh of the entire page. 
> Only the applet
> contents should be updated by zoom actions etc. This should 
> be done with
> some JavaScript functions. Can anybody tell me how to do 
> this? Is there an
> example in the gallery collection?
> 
> My problem is that I want to change parameters like 'mode' or 
> 'zoomdir' via
> JavaScript (with buttons), and with every complete refresh 
> these parameters
> are reset to their default values. Maybe there's also another solution
> writing always back the current parameter settings to the 
> refreshed page. I
> assume it could be done with some dummy html page containing 
> all necessary
> form parameters that will be read and written into the 
> refreshed page via
> javascript. Is this approach feasible?
> 
> It could probably also be done with frames but I'd prefer a 
> solution without
> them.
> 
> Thanks for any hints.
> 
> Armin
> 
> --
> Armin Burger
> Territorium Online
> Siemensstrasse/Via Siemens 19 - 39100 Bozen/Bolzano - Italia
> _
> 



From barberc at msu.edu  Tue Aug  7 10:38:53 2001
From: barberc at msu.edu (Chris Barber)
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 13:38:53 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] PHP Mapscript: dl() errors
Message-ID: <3B7027AD.5D08A6B0@msu.edu>

While folks are discussing PHP errors, I've been getting errors in my
system log that I'm unsure if they're being generated due to a problem w/
PHP Mapscript -or- my PHP installation. If it's my installation, maybe
someone can point me in the right direction, please.

The SYSLOG error:
unix: |$(0x6dd)ALERT: Process [httpd] 1367543 generated trap, but has signal 11
held or ignored
unix:         epc 0xc35d2ac ra 0xfb60630 badvaddr 0xc35d2ac
unix: Process has been killed to prevent infinite loop

Error appears each time php_mapscript is loaded via dl(), but the running
script completes w/o problem. When php_mapscript is loaded via 'php.ini'
-- same error in logs and Apache fails to start. As long as dl() is used,
everything seems to work ok, but I'm concerned about taking a performance
hit from the error.

OS: IRIX 6.5.11m
Web Server: Apache 1.3.20
PHP: 4.0.6 (as module)
MapServer: 3.5, nightly from 2001-07-31
Configure options: (paths truncated)
   --with-gd (1.8.4) --with-sde (v.80) --with-php --with-apxs

Thanks,
Chris Barber

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East Lansing, MI 48823-5243
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517.353.2932  FAX
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From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Tue Aug  7 10:50:48 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 12:50:48 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Interactive Select/Query
Message-ID: <sb6fe42f.035@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

Assuming features have a key field, and you're not talking about managing
100's of features this way, you can probably get by with using just javascript
and regular query or nquery. For example, a user could click "add" and then
to a regular query. Clicking "add" needs to do 2 things set the mode and set
another non-mapserver parameter to "add". Then after the query the resulting
template could look at that non-mapserver parameter to decide what to do
with the query results. I would suggest managing the results as simply a delimited
string that is passed from page to page. In "add" mode you tag the newly
selected ids to the string, in remove mode you remove them. What's cool is
that you can turn that delimited string into an expression that can be passed
to mapserver to show only those selected features. This would be done using
a map constructed *after* the query is processed (i.e. using mode=map in
the <input type=image src=/cgi-bin/mapserv?...> form element). At any time 
you could click a mail button that ideally would call another script to handle
the mailing. Just an idea, but very doable.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> "David W Bitner" <bitner at gyttja.org> 08/06/01 02:40PM >>>
I am looking to modify our mapserver application so that we can select a
number of features and then email the list of selected features back to us.
The email part of the problem could be taken care of fairly readily through
Javascript using the clients email program.  The issue that remains is
trying to select out just the features that the user wants to be sent back
to us.  I am sure that something is going to be have to be done using
savequery.  If at all possible, it would be great if things could be added
to/ taken away from the selection by toggling on the feature either one by
one or with a drag box with some sort of visual cue as to what has been
selected.  Does anyone have any examples or advice on this type of
application?

Thanks,
David


*********************************************************************
David William Bitner -- GIS/ Remote Sensing Specialist
National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center
National Weather Service, Chanhassen, MN 55317
work: bitner at nws.gov, http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov 
*********************************************************************




From jsmedsmo at gis.umn.edu  Tue Aug  7 11:10:51 2001
From: jsmedsmo at gis.umn.edu (Jamie Smedsmo)
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 13:10:51 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] [Fwd: Help]
Message-ID: <3B702F2B.301C9297@gis.umn.edu>



Yngrid Ocola wrote:
> 
> Hello..
> 
> I need your atention, please...
> I want to know if Mapserver allow me to build aplications on Visual
> Basic(Interdev) under SQL 2000, my aplication is on line and need to put the
> dots on the maps every 30 or 60 minutes.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Yngrid Ocola Ocola
> Analista de Sistemas
> Tel?fono Of. (511) 422-2627
> Celular (511) 9032250


From cathode at nichebox.com  Tue Aug  7 11:55:43 2001
From: cathode at nichebox.com (Rob Martinson)
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 21:55:43 +0300
Subject: [mapserver-users] OGR Support for TIGER 2000 Data?
In-Reply-To: <3B6FE691.FABC6F34@dmsolutions.ca>
Message-ID: <001501c11f72$9094acc0$de00a8c0@nichebox1>

Okay, this was a bit confusing to me but I now see what Jeff is saying.
OGR must look at the entire directory of raw data to open any of the
layers instead of a single .RT* file. I thought Jeff just meant that the
full path to the file must be specified, but instead just the directory
where the layers reside must be specified.

For example, my TIGER data is in:

/usr/local/mapdata/TIGER_2000/WA/53063/

In this directory I have files TGR53063.RT1 through TGR53063.RTZ.

Instead of calling ogrinfo as: 

ogrinfo /usr/local/mapdata/TIGER_2000/WA/53063/TGR53063.RT1

Try calling as:

ogrinfo /usr/local/mapdata/TIGER_2000/WA/53063

So OGR can look at the entire data structure. Works for me on this end
now. Thanks Jeff!

Rob Martinson
Nichebox - http://www.nichebox.com
Development - http://dev.nichebox.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu 
> [mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Jeff McKenna
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 4:01 PM
> To: Ed McNierney
> Cc: Users
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] OGR Support for TIGER 2000 Data?
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Thank for figuring that out!  However, I still can't get it 
> to work. 
> > I'm running the OGR tools I built (under Windows 2000) in the GDAL 
> > 1.1.5 distribution.  OGRINFO still refuses to recognize the 
> data set.  
> > Are you using a different OGR?
> > 
> 
> Hi Ed,
> 
> I just checked out the latest CVS version of GDAL (v1.1.5) 
> and built it (under Windows NT), and OGRINFO works fine for 
> me.  Hmm.  I placed OGRINFO into the directory where the 
> TIGER data resides (i.e. placed TGR25001.RT1, TGR25001.RT2... 
> in the same directory as OGRINFO).  The syntax I used for 
> OGRINFO is: $ ogrinfo full/path/to/data
> 
> This worked fine for me.  Maybe someone else has some ideas?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Jeff McKenna
> GIS Specialist
> DM Solutions Group Inc.
> Ottawa, Ontario
> http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
> 



From ed at topozone.com  Tue Aug  7 12:10:33 2001
From: ed at topozone.com (Ed McNierney)
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 15:10:33 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] OGR Support for TIGER 2000 Data?
Message-ID: <13858AA1A74F30419F319ACB66A9D12201915C@mercator.topozone.com>

Dawn breaks on Marblehead (as they say around here...)

Rob -

Thanks!  I have no problems at all and my OGRINFO tests work, and
MapServer works.

Jeff threw me off the trail by naming the directory in which he stored
the TGR25001.* files "TGR25001".  As a result, I thought he was simply
specifying the root name of the files - and that OGR would simply look
for TGR25001.* in the same directory as specified.  Instead, he was
specifying the name of the DIRECTORY holding all the TGR25001.* files.

I'm happy - everything works.  Thanks everyone for the help!  Jeff, you
might want to update your excellent example pages to make this
distinction clearer.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com
ed at topozone.com
(978) 251-4242


-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Martinson [mailto:cathode at nichebox.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 2:56 PM
To: 'Jeff McKenna'; Ed McNierney
Cc: 'Users'
Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] OGR Support for TIGER 2000 Data?


Okay, this was a bit confusing to me but I now see what Jeff is saying.
OGR must look at the entire directory of raw data to open any of the
layers instead of a single .RT* file. I thought Jeff just meant that the
full path to the file must be specified, but instead just the directory
where the layers reside must be specified.

For example, my TIGER data is in:

/usr/local/mapdata/TIGER_2000/WA/53063/

In this directory I have files TGR53063.RT1 through TGR53063.RTZ.

Instead of calling ogrinfo as: 

ogrinfo /usr/local/mapdata/TIGER_2000/WA/53063/TGR53063.RT1

Try calling as:

ogrinfo /usr/local/mapdata/TIGER_2000/WA/53063

So OGR can look at the entire data structure. Works for me on this end
now. Thanks Jeff!

Rob Martinson
Nichebox - http://www.nichebox.com
Development - http://dev.nichebox.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu 
> [mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Jeff McKenna
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 4:01 PM
> To: Ed McNierney
> Cc: Users
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] OGR Support for TIGER 2000 Data?
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Thank for figuring that out!  However, I still can't get it 
> to work. 
> > I'm running the OGR tools I built (under Windows 2000) in the GDAL 
> > 1.1.5 distribution.  OGRINFO still refuses to recognize the 
> data set.  
> > Are you using a different OGR?
> > 
> 
> Hi Ed,
> 
> I just checked out the latest CVS version of GDAL (v1.1.5) 
> and built it (under Windows NT), and OGRINFO works fine for 
> me.  Hmm.  I placed OGRINFO into the directory where the 
> TIGER data resides (i.e. placed TGR25001.RT1, TGR25001.RT2... 
> in the same directory as OGRINFO).  The syntax I used for 
> OGRINFO is: $ ogrinfo full/path/to/data
> 
> This worked fine for me.  Maybe someone else has some ideas?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Jeff McKenna
> GIS Specialist
> DM Solutions Group Inc.
> Ottawa, Ontario
> http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
> 



From jimburnett at ntelos.net  Tue Aug  7 12:39:54 2001
From: jimburnett at ntelos.net (Jim Burnett)
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 15:39:54 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] queryUsingPoint seg fault  on demo maps
Message-ID: <018501c11f78$bbc1ee70$2f01a8c0@morpheus>

I get a segfault when try to do a queryUsingPoint...I am testing with the demo maps....My map browsing works like zooming and panning, but now I want to query the map data when I click on an area, and return data from the attribute data. Like the area of the lake and miles and stuff.


I get a segfault, and the rest of the script doesnt run....
also, I renamed the demo.map file to romney.map 

if ( $map_x && $map_y ) {
 $mapObj = ms_newMapObj("/home/htdocs/maptest/romney.map");   
 $ptClicked = ms_newPointObj();
 $ptClicked->setXY($x,$y);
 $layerObj = $mapObj->getLayerByName("lakes");
 $queryObj = $layerObj->queryUsingPoint( $ptClicked,MS_MULTIPLE,3 );

 print  "click X Y:" . $map_x . " x " . $map_y . "<br>\n";
 print "mapObj->name:" .  $mapObj->name . "<br>\n";
 print "mapObj->numlayers:" . $mapObj->numlayers . "<br>\n";
 print "layerObj->numqueries:" . $layerObj->numqueries . "<br>\n";
 print "layerObj->other:" . $layerObj->queryitem . "<br>\n";
 print "queryObj->numresults:" . $queryObj->numresults . "<br>\n";
}


the layer definition in the map file...


LAYER
  NAME lakes
  TYPE POLYGON
  STATUS ON
  DATA lakespy2

  CLASS
    NAME 'Lakes & Rivers'
    COLOR 49 117 185
  END

  HEADER "demo/lakespy2_header.html"
  FOOTER "demo/lakespy2_footer.html"

  QUERY
    TEMPLATE "demo/lakespy2.html"
  END
  TOLERANCE 3
END # lakes


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From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Tue Aug  7 13:28:48 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 16:28:48 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] queryUsingPoint seg fault  on demo maps
References: <018501c11f78$bbc1ee70$2f01a8c0@morpheus>
Message-ID: <3B704F80.B2CE5541@dmsolutions.ca>

> Jim Burnett wrote:
> 
> I get a segfault when try to do a queryUsingPoint...I am testing with
> the demo maps....My map browsing works like zooming and panning, but
> now I want to query the map data when I click on an area, and return
> data from the attribute data. Like the area of the lake and miles and
> stuff.
> 
> 

Jim,

Seems like you're running MapScript 3.4 with PHP 4.0.6 ... this
combination is known to have a problem which is documented at the
following URL:
http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/mapserver/php_mapscript/php_mapscript_faq.html#4.5

You'll have to either switch to MapServer 3.5 or backtrack to PHP 4.0.5.

The following message in the archive also tells you how to patch your
MapScript 3.4 if you really can't switch versions of PHP or MapServer:
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/majordom_lists/archives/mapserver-users/html/0107/msg00204.html

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.



From jimburnett at ntelos.net  Tue Aug  7 14:08:06 2001
From: jimburnett at ntelos.net (Jim Burnett)
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:08:06 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] queryUsingPoint seg fault  on demo maps
References: <018501c11f78$bbc1ee70$2f01a8c0@morpheus> <3B704F80.B2CE5541@dmsolutions.ca>
Message-ID: <019701c11f85$0e0d7940$2f01a8c0@morpheus>

OK, I switched to GD1.8.4 and MapServer/Script  3.5  (nightly build)
Instead of a complete crash, I get this. ( better then complete crash)

Warning: MapServer Error in msQueryByPoint(): No matching record(s) found.
in /drives/storage1/homes/htdocs/maptest/php/test.php on line 71


here is my code:
I am using the shape file and map file provided in the demo, i just renamed
it.


if ( $map_x && $map_y ) {
 $mapObj = ms_newMapObj("/home/htdocs/maptest/romney.map");

 $ptClicked = ms_newPointObj();
 $ptClicked->setXY($x,$y);
 print $ptClicked . "<br>\n";

#$layerObj = $mapObj->getLayerByName("lakes");
$queryObj = $mapObj->queryByPoint( $ptClicked,MS_MULTIPLE,-1 );

 #$qObj = ms_newQueryObj($layerObj);
 #$qObj->setexpression("/./");


#$queryObj = $layerObj->queryByPoint( $ptClicked,MS_MULTIPLE,3 );

 print  "click X Y:" . $map_x . " x " . $map_y . "<br>\n";
 print "mapObj->name:" .  $mapObj->name . "<br>\n";
 print "mapObj->numlayers:" . $mapObj->numlayers . "<br>\n";
 print "layerObj->numqueries:" . $layerObj->numqueries . "<br>\n";
 print "layerObj->other:" . $layerObj->queryitem . "<br>\n";
 print "queryObj->numresults:" . $queryObj->numresults . "<br>\n";
 print "queryObj:" . $queryObj . "<br>\n";
}


----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Morissette" <morissette at dmsolutions.ca>
To: "Jim Burnett" <jimburnett at ntelos.net>
Cc: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] queryUsingPoint seg fault on demo maps


> > Jim Burnett wrote:
> >
> > I get a segfault when try to do a queryUsingPoint...I am testing with
> > the demo maps....My map browsing works like zooming and panning, but
> > now I want to query the map data when I click on an area, and return
> > data from the attribute data. Like the area of the lake and miles and
> > stuff.
> >
> >
>
> Jim,
>
> Seems like you're running MapScript 3.4 with PHP 4.0.6 ... this
> combination is known to have a problem which is documented at the
> following URL:
>
http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/mapserver/php_mapscript/php_mapscript_faq.html#4.
5
>
> You'll have to either switch to MapServer 3.5 or backtrack to PHP 4.0.5.
>
> The following message in the archive also tells you how to patch your
> MapScript 3.4 if you really can't switch versions of PHP or MapServer:
>
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/majordom_lists/archives/mapserver-users/html/01
07/msg00204.html
>
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>  Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
>  DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>   Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if
>       you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.
>
>



From jsmedsmo at gis.umn.edu  Wed Aug  8 09:13:02 2001
From: jsmedsmo at gis.umn.edu (Jamie Smedsmo)
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 11:13:02 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Server Available
Message-ID: <3B71650E.88A452CA@gis.umn.edu>

Just a note to let you know that the MapServer web and list server
is now available.  For those of you who didn't notice, it was
unavailable this morning.

Jamie Smedsmo
University of Minnesota
Department of Forest Resources


From jimburnett at ntelos.net  Wed Aug  8 06:37:29 2001
From: jimburnett at ntelos.net (Jim Burnett)
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 09:37:29 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] queryUsingPoint seg fault  on demo maps
References: <018501c11f78$bbc1ee70$2f01a8c0@morpheus> <3B704F80.B2CE5541@dmsolutions.ca> <019701c11f85$0e0d7940$2f01a8c0@morpheus>
Message-ID: <007501c1200f$44c82450$2f01a8c0@morpheus>

OK, Now I downgraded to php-4.0.5 also.
I still get
Warning: MapServer Error in msQueryByPoint(): No matching record(s) found.
in /drives/storage1/homes/htdocs/maptest/php/test.php on line 71

I can not seem to pull any data from the ms_demo data files.
Here is my code and map file.

Zooming, and Panning work fine, just cant query for some reason. What am I
missing?


$mapObj = ms_newMapObj("/home/htdocs/maptest/romney.map");
 $ptClicked = ms_newPointObj();
 $ptClicked->setXY($x,$y);
 $queryObj = $mapObj->queryByPoint( $ptClicked,MS_MULTIPLE,-1 );



LAYER
  NAME lakes
  METADATA
    "DESCRIPTION"   "lakes"
    "RESULT_FIELDS" "AREA PERIMETER USCLASS LAKE_NAME"
  END
  TYPE POLYGON
  STATUS ON
  DATA lakespy2

  CLASS
    NAME 'Lakes & Rivers'
    COLOR 49 117 185
    TEMPLATE "demo/lakespy2.html"
  END
  TOLERANCE 3
END # lakes




----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Burnett" <jimburnett at ntelos.net>
To: "Daniel Morissette" <morissette at dmsolutions.ca>
Cc: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] queryUsingPoint seg fault on demo maps


> OK, I switched to GD1.8.4 and MapServer/Script  3.5  (nightly build)
> Instead of a complete crash, I get this. ( better then complete crash)
>
> Warning: MapServer Error in msQueryByPoint(): No matching record(s) found.
> in /drives/storage1/homes/htdocs/maptest/php/test.php on line 71
>
>
> here is my code:
> I am using the shape file and map file provided in the demo, i just
renamed
> it.
>
>
> if ( $map_x && $map_y ) {
>  $mapObj = ms_newMapObj("/home/htdocs/maptest/romney.map");
>
>  $ptClicked = ms_newPointObj();
>  $ptClicked->setXY($x,$y);
>  print $ptClicked . "<br>\n";
>
> #$layerObj = $mapObj->getLayerByName("lakes");
> $queryObj = $mapObj->queryByPoint( $ptClicked,MS_MULTIPLE,-1 );
>
>  #$qObj = ms_newQueryObj($layerObj);
>  #$qObj->setexpression("/./");
>
>
> #$queryObj = $layerObj->queryByPoint( $ptClicked,MS_MULTIPLE,3 );
>
>  print  "click X Y:" . $map_x . " x " . $map_y . "<br>\n";
>  print "mapObj->name:" .  $mapObj->name . "<br>\n";
>  print "mapObj->numlayers:" . $mapObj->numlayers . "<br>\n";
>  print "layerObj->numqueries:" . $layerObj->numqueries . "<br>\n";
>  print "layerObj->other:" . $layerObj->queryitem . "<br>\n";
>  print "queryObj->numresults:" . $queryObj->numresults . "<br>\n";
>  print "queryObj:" . $queryObj . "<br>\n";
> }
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Morissette" <morissette at dmsolutions.ca>
> To: "Jim Burnett" <jimburnett at ntelos.net>
> Cc: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 4:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] queryUsingPoint seg fault on demo maps
>
>
> > > Jim Burnett wrote:
> > >
> > > I get a segfault when try to do a queryUsingPoint...I am testing with
> > > the demo maps....My map browsing works like zooming and panning, but
> > > now I want to query the map data when I click on an area, and return
> > > data from the attribute data. Like the area of the lake and miles and
> > > stuff.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Jim,
> >
> > Seems like you're running MapScript 3.4 with PHP 4.0.6 ... this
> > combination is known to have a problem which is documented at the
> > following URL:
> >
>
http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/mapserver/php_mapscript/php_mapscript_faq.html#4.
> 5
> >
> > You'll have to either switch to MapServer 3.5 or backtrack to PHP 4.0.5.
> >
> > The following message in the archive also tells you how to patch your
> > MapScript 3.4 if you really can't switch versions of PHP or MapServer:
> >
>
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/majordom_lists/archives/mapserver-users/html/01
> 07/msg00204.html
> >
> > --
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> >  Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
> >  DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> >   Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if
> >       you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.
> >
> >
>
>



From mapserver at cubok.com  Tue Aug  7 22:54:51 2001
From: mapserver at cubok.com (Richard Ford)
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 15:54:51 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Compilation/ESRI SHapeLIB
References: <200108071612.f77GCYO09408@antonia.nn.cl>
Message-ID: <000d01c11fce$a56cf5b0$01bca8c0@Peach>

G'Day All,

I did the ldconfig thing.  And it works.

Funny thing is though, when I compiled PROJ with
a --prefix=/usr/local/projlib and compiled map server against that
directory.  And added /usr/local/projlib to ld.so.conf and ran ldconfig,
mapserver would still fail in the same way.

However doing a straight ./configure of proj so that it would install to
/usr/local/lib and adding that to ld.so.conf, mapserver did work?

Strange?

Richard.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Vinko Vrsalovic B." <v at w.cl>
To: "Richard Ford" <mapserver at cubok.com>
Cc: "Map" <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 2:12 AM
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Compilation/ESRI SHapeLIB


>
> > ***********************************************************************
> >
> > mapserv: error while loading shared libraries: libproj.so.0: cannot load
> > shared object file: No such file or directory
> > mapserv: error while loading shared libraries: libproj.so.0: cannot load
> > shared object file: No such file or directory
> > [Tue Aug  7 15:19:45 2001] [error] [client 192.168.188.1] Premature end
of
> > script headers: /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv
> > [Tue Aug  7 15:19:45 2001] [error] [client 192.168.188.1] Premature end
of
> > script headers: /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv
> >
> > ************************************************************************
> >
> > I take it that the libraries can't be found or loaded?  With PROJ
disabled
> > the mapserv runs fine.
>
> > So why or what is wrong?  :)
>
> Maybe you need to add the directory where libproj is to /etc/ld.conf and
> run ldconfig afterwards.
>
> --
> V. <v at w.cl>
>



From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Wed Aug  8 09:55:29 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 12:55:29 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] queryUsingPoint seg fault  on demo maps
References: <018501c11f78$bbc1ee70$2f01a8c0@morpheus> <3B704F80.B2CE5541@dmsolutions.ca> <019701c11f85$0e0d7940$2f01a8c0@morpheus> <007501c1200f$44c82450$2f01a8c0@morpheus>
Message-ID: <3B716F01.F3AB1E2A@dmsolutions.ca>

Jim Burnett wrote:
> 
> OK, Now I downgraded to php-4.0.5 also.

Going back to PHP 4.0.5 was not necessary since you're using Mapscript
3.5... the message you get is not a bug... it's a normal error message
saying that nothing was found.


> I still get
> Warning: MapServer Error in msQueryByPoint(): No matching record(s) found.
> in /drives/storage1/homes/htdocs/maptest/php/test.php on line 71
> 
> I can not seem to pull any data from the ms_demo data files.
> Here is my code and map file.
> 
> Zooming, and Panning work fine, just cant query for some reason. What am I
> missing?
> 
> $mapObj = ms_newMapObj("/home/htdocs/maptest/romney.map");
>  $ptClicked = ms_newPointObj();
>  $ptClicked->setXY($x,$y);
>  $queryObj = $mapObj->queryByPoint( $ptClicked,MS_MULTIPLE,-1 );
> 

Are $x and $y in pixel coordinates?

The query functions expect the search location in map coordinates...
here's an example of code that should (hopefully ;) convert from pixel
to map coordinates:

 $pix_x = ...; // click location in pixel units
 $pix_y = ...; 
 $mapext = $mapObj->extent;
 $w = $mapObj->width;
 $h = $mapObj->height;
 $georef_x = $mapext->minx + ($pix_x/$w)*($mapext->maxx-$mapext->minx);
 $georef_y = $mapext->maxy - ($pix_y/$h)*($mapext->maxy-$mapext->miny);

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.



From jimburnett at ntelos.net  Wed Aug  8 10:08:46 2001
From: jimburnett at ntelos.net (Jim Burnett)
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 13:08:46 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] queryUsingPoint seg fault  on demo maps
References: <018501c11f78$bbc1ee70$2f01a8c0@morpheus> <3B704F80.B2CE5541@dmsolutions.ca> <019701c11f85$0e0d7940$2f01a8c0@morpheus> <007501c1200f$44c82450$2f01a8c0@morpheus> <3B716F01.F3AB1E2A@dmsolutions.ca>
Message-ID: <008401c1202c$c92db3f0$2f01a8c0@morpheus>

I figured it out, I had to make some changes in my map file, and also set my
default map extents!!
thanks!!

-jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Morissette" <morissette at dmsolutions.ca>
To: "Jim Burnett" <jimburnett at ntelos.net>
Cc: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] queryUsingPoint seg fault on demo maps


> Jim Burnett wrote:
> >
> > OK, Now I downgraded to php-4.0.5 also.
>
> Going back to PHP 4.0.5 was not necessary since you're using Mapscript
> 3.5... the message you get is not a bug... it's a normal error message
> saying that nothing was found.
>
>
> > I still get
> > Warning: MapServer Error in msQueryByPoint(): No matching record(s)
found.
> > in /drives/storage1/homes/htdocs/maptest/php/test.php on line 71
> >
> > I can not seem to pull any data from the ms_demo data files.
> > Here is my code and map file.
> >
> > Zooming, and Panning work fine, just cant query for some reason. What am
I
> > missing?
> >
> > $mapObj = ms_newMapObj("/home/htdocs/maptest/romney.map");
> >  $ptClicked = ms_newPointObj();
> >  $ptClicked->setXY($x,$y);
> >  $queryObj = $mapObj->queryByPoint( $ptClicked,MS_MULTIPLE,-1 );
> >
>
> Are $x and $y in pixel coordinates?
>
> The query functions expect the search location in map coordinates...
> here's an example of code that should (hopefully ;) convert from pixel
> to map coordinates:
>
>  $pix_x = ...; // click location in pixel units
>  $pix_y = ...;
>  $mapext = $mapObj->extent;
>  $w = $mapObj->width;
>  $h = $mapObj->height;
>  $georef_x = $mapext->minx + ($pix_x/$w)*($mapext->maxx-$mapext->minx);
>  $georef_y = $mapext->maxy - ($pix_y/$h)*($mapext->maxy-$mapext->miny);
>
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>  Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
>  DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>   Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if
>       you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.
>
>



From mapserver at cubok.com  Tue Aug  7 23:08:33 2001
From: mapserver at cubok.com (Richard Ford)
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 16:08:33 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Compilation/ESRI SHapeLIB
References: <sb6fbc08.095@co5.dnr.state.mn.us> <024b01c11f57$66f17300$01bca8c0@Peach> <3B702210.92BD181C@pobox.com>
Message-ID: <003b01c11fd0$9bef89b0$01bca8c0@Peach>

G'Dat Frank.

Was that version 3.3?  Or a later one?

Cheers,
Richard.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Warmerdam" <warmerdam at pobox.com>
To: "Richard Ford" <mapserver at cubok.com>; "UMN MapServer"
<mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 3:14 AM
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Compilation/ESRI SHapeLIB


> Richard Ford wrote:
> >
> > What do you mean by bastardised??
> >
> > Is it limited or does it just suffice for basic reading and writing?
>
> Richard,
>
> Steve has optimized the shapelib code, partly by having it directly
> transform the incoming data into the internal format for MapServer instead
> of going through the intermediate format used by shapelib.  It should read
> pretty much anything that the regular shapelib reads, but won't include
some
> of the latest shapelib tweaks.
>
> > As Stephen pointed out there is shape file support built in.  Will I
still
> > need PROJ.  What else is PROJ used for and should I really consider it a
> > mandatory library?
>
> If you have all your data into one coordinate system ... the coordinate
system
> you want to serve data in, then you don't need PROJ.4 libraries for
MapServer.
>
> Best regards,
>
> ---------------------------------------+----------------------------------
----
> I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam,
warmerdam at pobox.com
> light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
> and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Programmer for Rent
>



From Gregg.Petersen at parsons.com  Wed Aug  8 10:23:05 2001
From: Gregg.Petersen at parsons.com (Gregg Petersen)
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 17:23:05 +0000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Can't select a point.
Message-ID: <3a158bdc.080701@nettalk.parsons.com>

     Hello,
     
     I'm new to mapserver and have a site up with some basic layers.  The 
     problem is I can't query a point layer by itself.  I am able to query 
     the point if their is a polygon layer also selected and I select "Qery 
     Multiple Layers".  Thanks for any assistance.
     
     Layer info within the map file:
     
     #####################################################
     #layer zdi
       layer
         data "./zdi"
         footer "zdi_footer.html"
         header "zdi_header.html"
         labelitem "LOCID"
         labelmaxscale 5500
         maxscale 25000
         name "zdi"
         status on
         type point
      #query 
         query
           template "zdi.html"
         end
         # 1 class {Sample Locations}
         class
           color 0 255 0
           name "Sample Locations"
           outlinecolor 0 0 0
           symbol "county_highway_shield"
           #label
           label
             backgroundcolor 225 225 225
             color 0 225 0
             partials false
             position auto
             size medium
             type bitmap
           end
         end
         toleranceunits feet
         tolerance 10
       end
     #####################################################
     
     Gregg Petersen


From v at w.cl  Wed Aug  8 11:26:06 2001
From: v at w.cl (Vinko Vrsalovic B.)
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 14:26:06 -0400 (CLT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] the infamous 'invalid _map_handle_' strikes again
In-Reply-To: <3B716F01.F3AB1E2A@dmsolutions.ca> from "Daniel Morissette" at Aug 08, 2001 12:55:29 PM
Message-ID: <200108081826.f78IQ7m29534@antonia.nn.cl>


Well, I finally got the time to upgrade from PHP4.0.3 to PHP 4.0.6.

I'm using the latest CVS build of MS3.5 (08-01) and when executing this code:

dl("php_mapscript.so");

$map = ms_newMapObj("../buses.map");

$imag = $map->prepareImage();

$l_stgo=$map->getLayerByName("arcosbase");
$l_stgo->set("status",1);

$l_stgo->draw($imag);

$bar = $map->drawScalebar();
$url_bar = $bar->saveWebImage(MS_PNG,0,0,0);
$map->drawLabelCache($imag);
$url = $imag->saveWebImage(MS_PNG, 0,0,0);

I get a:

Fatal error: Object has an invalid '_map_handle_' property in /var/www/html/ms_demo/php/layer.php on line 11

If I change the $l_stgo->draw($imag); line to $imag=$map->draw(); 
it works perfectly.

-- 
V. <v at w.cl>


From Dan_Stevens at stricom.army.mil  Thu Aug  9 02:54:46 2001
From: Dan_Stevens at stricom.army.mil (Dan_Stevens at stricom.army.mil)
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 05:54:46 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] FW: Need direction for enhancing Mapserver
Message-ID: <OF0FF6BEB4.4EB45A60-ON85256AA3.0034D791@stricom.army.mil>

To all,
     I am the technical lead for the program Chan is interning under.  This
is a government program developing a repository for users to "compose"
environmental scenarios from canned database (one degree square) terrain
"tiles".   There are three major objectives to Chan's project:
   Help her to develop hands on experience with all the elements of the
   environmental software we develop
   Provide her with a very practical software development project to grow
   her skills
   Save taxpayer (most of us : ) money
     Chan has already made tremendous progress and has met all of the
program's basic requirements.  Her repository software is running in a
"text only" mode and functions as expected.  She has exceeded expectations
on the GUI side, and can already use the mapserver to query her world map
to get the coordinates for a requested area, but the user must manually
enter the text lat/long to actually retrieve the data, a process that is
both "user unfriendly" and error prone.    Chan is only dedicated to this
effort for another 4 or 5 months in her training track, and the only thing
lacking is being able to compile and link the back-end C++ software Chan
mentioned with the GUI interface providing the several functions Chan
describes below (apparently already supported by mapserver).    Any help
would be appreciated.  Is there anyone who could support a half-hour
telecon to talk through the functions she needs supported  and help us
determine a best  approach to complete the project?

                                                        Thanks
                                                        Dan Stevens

----- Forwarded by Dan Stevens/E_DIR/STRIORL/US on 08/09/01 05:37 AM -----
                                                                                                                   
                    "Chan B.                                                                                       
                    Huynh"               To:     <dan_stevens at stricom.army.mil>                                    
                    <chuynh at ideor        cc:                                                                       
                    lando.org>           Subject:     FW: Need direction for enhancing Mapserver                   
                                                                                                                   
                    08/08/01                                                                                       
                    06:25 PM                                                                                       
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   




Dan,
I forward you here what I send to the mapserver reflector.
Just thought you might want to know what I have in mind.
-chan

-----Original Message-----
From: Chan B. Huynh [mailto:chuynh at ideorlando.org]
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 8:36 PM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: Need direction for enhancing Mapserver


Hi everyone,
First, I'd like to thank all the ones who have helped me with all my puzzle
the past weeks. I now have the digital map of world up and running
beautifully on my NT server with my own source .  I will need a kind soul
to
direct me enhancing Mapserver to do the following:

The interface would be very much like the MapServer Applications: MODIS
Download Facility written by TerraSIP and UMN in the gallery link on
mapserver webpage. Instead of only the Great Lakes area, I need to have a
DGM world map like the Australian worldmap in the gallery.  Besides all the
zoom-in/zoom-out/pan east-west-north-south-ne-nw-se=sw function, the
end-user can draw a rectangular-area/drag-a-box on the window map.  The
mapserver will grab that coordinate of the lower-left and upper-right
corner
of the selected area and convert that to lat/long.  Once I have this
lat/long, it will be fed into my already-written C++ program which produce
a
"peffile" in ASCII format (readable by notepad/wordpad) responsive to user
selected area and avaliable for download from the webbrowser.

Now, having said that, does mapserver support all that I want to do?  If
not, what is the best way I can tackle this?  Is it worth of my time to
re-compile mapserver, play with it and see what I can do with it and add my
part into it?

All suggestions and hints are appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
-chan






From vatsavai at cs.umn.edu  Thu Aug  9 08:49:43 2001
From: vatsavai at cs.umn.edu (Ranga Raju Vatsavai)
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 10:49:43 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] mail system working
Message-ID: <200108091549.KAA09514@plato.cs.umn.edu>

Hello MapServer-Users

For last two days, the server hosting mailing list and web services
is givinig trouble. I am looking into the cause, but mean time I will
try to keep it running as smoothly as possible. If any one notice that
a certain service is not available, then send me a mail at
vrraju at gis.umn.edu. Thanks for your cooperation.

Raju
----


From mapserver at cubok.com  Thu Aug  9 07:04:10 2001
From: mapserver at cubok.com (Richard Ford)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 00:04:10 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Compilation/ESRI SHapeLIB 
References: <200108082247.f78MlYj13879@tba119427.dpi.qld.gov.au>
Message-ID: <006a01c120dc$2abf2b30$01bca8c0@Peach>

No,

Didn't think to... as it was calling a separate program with it's own
compilation issues....

I did hit refresh many times....  would apache actually cache the mapserv
executable?


Richard.



> restarted apache, too?
>
>



From kames at keyspanenergy.com  Thu Aug  9 08:04:48 2001
From: kames at keyspanenergy.com (Kieran J. Ames)
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 11:04:48 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] OGR Support for TIGER 2000 Data?
References: <13858AA1A74F30419F319ACB66A9D12201915C@mercator.topozone.com>
Message-ID: <3B72A690.92E703CE@keyspanenergy.com>

List
It seems mapserver.gis.umn.edu is down. :(
Questions...
I'm trying to understand these TIGER files and can't quite grasp the record
types. I'm wondering if ZIP CODES are available within these data, since my
Zip code polygon files are a few years old.
Thanks,
Kieran


Ed McNierney wrote:

> Dawn breaks on Marblehead (as they say around here...)
>
> Rob -
>
> Thanks!  I have no problems at all and my OGRINFO tests work, and
> MapServer works.
>
> Jeff threw me off the trail by naming the directory in which he stored
> the TGR25001.* files "TGR25001".  As a result, I thought he was simply
> specifying the root name of the files - and that OGR would simply look
> for TGR25001.* in the same directory as specified.  Instead, he was
> specifying the name of the DIRECTORY holding all the TGR25001.* files.
>
> I'm happy - everything works.  Thanks everyone for the help!  Jeff, you
> might want to update your excellent example pages to make this
> distinction clearer.
>
>         - Ed
>
> Ed McNierney
> Chief Mapmaker
> TopoZone.com
> ed at topozone.com
> (978) 251-4242
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Martinson [mailto:cathode at nichebox.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 2:56 PM
> To: 'Jeff McKenna'; Ed McNierney
> Cc: 'Users'
> Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] OGR Support for TIGER 2000 Data?
>
> Okay, this was a bit confusing to me but I now see what Jeff is saying.
> OGR must look at the entire directory of raw data to open any of the
> layers instead of a single .RT* file. I thought Jeff just meant that the
> full path to the file must be specified, but instead just the directory
> where the layers reside must be specified.
>
> For example, my TIGER data is in:
>
> /usr/local/mapdata/TIGER_2000/WA/53063/
>
> In this directory I have files TGR53063.RT1 through TGR53063.RTZ.
>
> Instead of calling ogrinfo as:
>
> ogrinfo /usr/local/mapdata/TIGER_2000/WA/53063/TGR53063.RT1
>
> Try calling as:
>
> ogrinfo /usr/local/mapdata/TIGER_2000/WA/53063
>
> So OGR can look at the entire data structure. Works for me on this end
> now. Thanks Jeff!
>
> Rob Martinson
> Nichebox - http://www.nichebox.com
> Development - http://dev.nichebox.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> > [mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu] On Behalf Of
> > Jeff McKenna
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 4:01 PM
> > To: Ed McNierney
> > Cc: Users
> > Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] OGR Support for TIGER 2000 Data?
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Thank for figuring that out!  However, I still can't get it
> > to work.
> > > I'm running the OGR tools I built (under Windows 2000) in the GDAL
> > > 1.1.5 distribution.  OGRINFO still refuses to recognize the
> > data set.
> > > Are you using a different OGR?
> > >
> >
> > Hi Ed,
> >
> > I just checked out the latest CVS version of GDAL (v1.1.5)
> > and built it (under Windows NT), and OGRINFO works fine for
> > me.  Hmm.  I placed OGRINFO into the directory where the
> > TIGER data resides (i.e. placed TGR25001.RT1, TGR25001.RT2...
> > in the same directory as OGRINFO).  The syntax I used for
> > OGRINFO is: $ ogrinfo full/path/to/data
> >
> > This worked fine for me.  Maybe someone else has some ideas?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Jeff McKenna
> > GIS Specialist
> > DM Solutions Group Inc.
> > Ottawa, Ontario
> > http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
> >



From cathode at nichebox.com  Thu Aug  9 10:30:51 2001
From: cathode at nichebox.com (Rob Martinson)
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 20:30:51 +0300
Subject: [mapserver-users] OGR Support for TIGER 2000 Data?
In-Reply-To: <3B72A690.92E703CE@keyspanenergy.com>
Message-ID: <002f01c120f9$0b2cde80$de00a8c0@nichebox1>

Zip information via Zip Code Tabulation Areas from TIGER 2000 are now
available at: http://www.census.gov/geo/ZCTA/zcta.html. Or as boundary
files for each state from:
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/z52000.html.

They have also made available online a database of ZIP codes compiled
from '99 information. This is the most recent freely available ZIP
information for the US that I know of. It contains zip codes, centroid,
placename, zip type, and FIPS for the country. I have parsed a copy of
this table and dumped them to a mySQL database on the server which I use
quite often along side Mapserver. This table from November '99 is
available at: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/zip1999.html

Hope this helps...

Rob Martinson
Nichebox - http://www.nichebox.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu 
> [mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Kieran J. Ames
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 6:05 PM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] OGR Support for TIGER 2000 Data?
> 
> 
> List
> It seems mapserver.gis.umn.edu is down. :(
> Questions...
> I'm trying to understand these TIGER files and can't quite 
> grasp the record types. I'm wondering if ZIP CODES are 
> available within these data, since my Zip code polygon files 
> are a few years old. Thanks, Kieran
> 
> 
> Ed McNierney wrote:
> 
> > Dawn breaks on Marblehead (as they say around here...)
> >
> > Rob -
> >
> > Thanks!  I have no problems at all and my OGRINFO tests work, and 
> > MapServer works.
> >
> > Jeff threw me off the trail by naming the directory in 
> which he stored 
> > the TGR25001.* files "TGR25001".  As a result, I thought he 
> was simply 
> > specifying the root name of the files - and that OGR would 
> simply look 
> > for TGR25001.* in the same directory as specified.  Instead, he was 
> > specifying the name of the DIRECTORY holding all the 
> TGR25001.* files.
> >
> > I'm happy - everything works.  Thanks everyone for the help!  Jeff, 
> > you might want to update your excellent example pages to make this 
> > distinction clearer.
> >
> >         - Ed
> >
> > Ed McNierney
> > Chief Mapmaker
> > TopoZone.com
> > ed at topozone.com
> > (978) 251-4242
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rob Martinson [mailto:cathode at nichebox.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 2:56 PM
> > To: 'Jeff McKenna'; Ed McNierney
> > Cc: 'Users'
> > Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] OGR Support for TIGER 2000 Data?
> >
> > Okay, this was a bit confusing to me but I now see what Jeff is 
> > saying. OGR must look at the entire directory of raw data 
> to open any 
> > of the layers instead of a single .RT* file. I thought Jeff 
> just meant 
> > that the full path to the file must be specified, but 
> instead just the 
> > directory where the layers reside must be specified.
> >
> > For example, my TIGER data is in:
> >
> > /usr/local/mapdata/TIGER_2000/WA/53063/
> >
> > In this directory I have files TGR53063.RT1 through TGR53063.RTZ.
> >
> > Instead of calling ogrinfo as:
> >
> > ogrinfo /usr/local/mapdata/TIGER_2000/WA/53063/TGR53063.RT1
> >
> > Try calling as:
> >
> > ogrinfo /usr/local/mapdata/TIGER_2000/WA/53063
> >
> > So OGR can look at the entire data structure. Works for me 
> on this end 
> > now. Thanks Jeff!
> >
> > Rob Martinson
> > Nichebox - http://www.nichebox.com
> > Development - http://dev.nichebox.com
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> > > [mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu] On 
> Behalf Of Jeff 
> > > McKenna
> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 4:01 PM
> > > To: Ed McNierney
> > > Cc: Users
> > > Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] OGR Support for TIGER 2000 Data?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Thank for figuring that out!  However, I still can't get it
> > > to work.
> > > > I'm running the OGR tools I built (under Windows 2000) 
> in the GDAL 
> > > > 1.1.5 distribution.  OGRINFO still refuses to recognize the
> > > data set.
> > > > Are you using a different OGR?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hi Ed,
> > >
> > > I just checked out the latest CVS version of GDAL 
> (v1.1.5) and built 
> > > it (under Windows NT), and OGRINFO works fine for me.  Hmm.  I 
> > > placed OGRINFO into the directory where the TIGER data 
> resides (i.e. 
> > > placed TGR25001.RT1, TGR25001.RT2... in the same directory as 
> > > OGRINFO).  The syntax I used for OGRINFO is: $ ogrinfo 
> > > full/path/to/data
> > >
> > > This worked fine for me.  Maybe someone else has some ideas?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Jeff McKenna
> > > GIS Specialist
> > > DM Solutions Group Inc.
> > > Ottawa, Ontario
> > > http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
> > >
> 
> 



From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Thu Aug  9 11:32:07 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 14:32:07 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] the infamous 'invalid _map_handle_' strikes again
References: <200108081826.f78IQ7m29534@antonia.nn.cl>
Message-ID: <3B72D727.8CDE4A19@dmsolutions.ca>

"Vinko Vrsalovic B." wrote:
> 
> Well, I finally got the time to upgrade from PHP4.0.3 to PHP 4.0.6.
> 
> I'm using the latest CVS build of MS3.5 (08-01) and when executing this code:
> 
...
> 
> I get a:
> 
> Fatal error: Object has an invalid '_map_handle_' property in /var/www/html/ms_demo/php/layer.php on line 11
> 
> If I change the $l_stgo->draw($imag); line to $imag=$map->draw();
> it works perfectly.
> 

Hummm this is bad!  I don't have time to look into this now but I have
filed the bug in bugzilla to make sure it doesn't fall in a crack... 

  http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=30

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.


From jef.mony at free.fr  Thu Aug  9 13:58:17 2001
From: jef.mony at free.fr (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-Fran=E7ois_MONY?=)
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 22:58:17 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: [mapserver-users] shape->intesects
Message-ID: <997390697.3b72f969a1185@imp.free.fr>

Hi,

I'm using mapscript with php as a DSO from the mapserver 3.4 on linux.

I've some questions on the intersects fonction of a shape object.
I've tried it on multi-part polygon and the result was not really fine.
After some search, I find that the total inclusion of a polygon in another was 
not take in count by this function.

After a look on the mapscript.i, I thought that the problem came from :
 
   int intersects(shapeObj *shape) {
     switch(self->type) {
     case(MS_SHAPE_LINE):
       switch(shape->type) {
       case(MS_SHAPE_LINE):
         return msIntersectPolylines(self, shape);
       case(MS_SHAPE_POLYGON):
         return msIntersectPolylinePolygon(self, shape);
       }
       break;
     case(MS_SHAPE_POLYGON):
       switch(shape->type) {
       case(MS_SHAPE_LINE):
         return msIntersectPolylinePolygon(shape, self);
       case(MS_SHAPE_POLYGON):
         return msIntersectPolylines(self, shape); <<=======
       }
       break;
     }
 
     return -1;
   }
 
But I've tried to recompil mapserver with the following modification, and 
nothing change.

         return msIntersectPolygons(self, shape);  <<=======


Is there somebody with a comment or an idea ?

Thanks everybody

Jean-Fran?ois MONY - jef.mony at free.fr
Parc naturel r?gional de Lorraine
Responsable informatique/SIG
tel : 03-83-84-06-37
D?tach? aupr?s du laboratoire de phyto?cologie de l'universit? de Metz
tel : 03-87-37-84-05


From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Thu Aug  9 13:13:08 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 15:13:08 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Can't select a point.
Message-ID: <sb72a8a5.094@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

A tolerance unit of 10 feet is pretty small, have you tried screwing with that value at all?

>>> Gregg Petersen <Gregg.Petersen at parsons.com> 08/08/01 12:23PM >>>
     Hello,
     
     I'm new to mapserver and have a site up with some basic layers.  The 
     problem is I can't query a point layer by itself.  I am able to query 
     the point if their is a polygon layer also selected and I select "Qery 
     Multiple Layers".  Thanks for any assistance.
     
     Layer info within the map file:
     
     #####################################################
     #layer zdi
       layer
         data "./zdi"
         footer "zdi_footer.html"
         header "zdi_header.html"
         labelitem "LOCID"
         labelmaxscale 5500
         maxscale 25000
         name "zdi"
         status on
         type point
      #query 
         query
           template "zdi.html"
         end
         # 1 class {Sample Locations}
         class
           color 0 255 0
           name "Sample Locations"
           outlinecolor 0 0 0
           symbol "county_highway_shield"
           #label
           label
             backgroundcolor 225 225 225
             color 0 225 0
             partials false
             position auto
             size medium
             type bitmap
           end
         end
         toleranceunits feet
         tolerance 10
       end
     #####################################################
     
     Gregg Petersen



From AWOOLEY at mountainland.org  Thu Aug  9 15:13:23 2001
From: AWOOLEY at mountainland.org (ANDREW WOOLEY)
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 16:13:23 -0600
Subject: [mapserver-users] PHP ZoomPoint
Message-ID: <sb72b6b0.008@email.mountainland.org>

Folks,

I am getting what seems to me to be strange results on my zoompoint method.  I feel like I have followed the docs pretty closely and have even tried an example that I found in the email archives, but still have yet to get a useable result.

I am using MapScript Version (Aug 1, 2001), a nightly build and when executing the code: 

$ptClicked = ms_newPointObj(); 
$ptClicked->setXY($mainmap_x,$mainmap_y); 

$extent = ms_newRectObj();
$extent->setextent($map->extent->minx, $map->extent->miny, $map->extent->maxx, $map->extent->maxy); 

$map->zoompoint(2, $ptClicked, 600, 600, $extent); 

When I echo the extent minx, etc. it gives reasonable coordinates for the map extent (1800193, 825044, 2115496, 542882), however, after this code executes and I echo the new extent, I get good values for some of the coordinates but not others (1877442.235, -78702.92, 2035093.735, 78702.92).  Can someone explain to me what I am doing wrong and why the negative values show up?  Thanks.




Andrew Wooley
GIS Operations Manager
Mountainland Association of Governments
Orem, UT

phone:  801.229.3844
fax:       801.229.3801
email:   awooley at mountainland.org



From mckenna at dmsolutions.ca  Thu Aug  9 15:34:48 2001
From: mckenna at dmsolutions.ca (Jeff McKenna)
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 18:34:48 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] New PHPMapscript Installation and Classes Docs for v3.5
Message-ID: <3B731007.29D12AD1@dmsolutions.ca>


Hello all,

Just a quick note to say that 2 new documents for v3.5 are available to
the Mapserver community: a PHPMapscript Installation HOWTO, and a
PHPMapscript Classes Guide (describing all of the classes, properties
and methods associated with the PHP/Mapscript module).

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc/phpmapscript-install-howto.html

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc/phpmapscript-class-guide.html


With all of the traffic on the list lately regarding PHPMapscript I am
sure that these docs will be useful.  And of course they will be
improved over time.


Have fun.




-- 

Jeff McKenna
GIS Specialist
DM Solutions Group Inc.
Ottawa, Ontario
http://www.dmsolutions.ca/


From nwerneck at yahoo.com.br  Thu Aug  9 16:01:39 2001
From: nwerneck at yahoo.com.br (=?iso-8859-1?q?Nicolau=20Werneck?=)
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 20:01:39 -0300 (ART)
Subject: [mapserver-users] maximum number of classes
Message-ID: <20010809230139.22619.qmail@web4307.mail.yahoo.com>

  The documentation says that there's a maximum number
of 50 layers possibe to define in a map file... Is
there also a maximum number of 50 classes to be
defined on a layer???

  Whyyyyy? :(

++nicolau



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From v at w.cl  Thu Aug  9 16:51:26 2001
From: v at w.cl (Vinko Vrsalovic B.)
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 19:51:26 -0400 (CLT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] PHP ZoomPoint
In-Reply-To: <sb72b6b0.008@email.mountainland.org> from "ANDREW WOOLEY" at Aug 09, 2001 04:13:23 PM
Message-ID: <200108092351.f79NpRG18386@antonia.nn.cl>

> When I echo the extent minx, etc. it gives reasonable coordinates for the map extent (1800193, 825044, 2115496, 542882), however, after this code executes and I echo the new extent, I get good values for some of the coordinates but not others (1877442.235, -78702.92, 2035093.735, 78702.92).  Can someone explain to me what I am doing wrong and why the negative values show up?  Thanks.
 
have you echoed the mainmap_x, mainmap_y variables to assure they're
correct? (maybe you've mistyped the img name in the HTML file)

is the shape projected?

I had a similar problem with a shape with geographic coords, and the problem
turned out to be a missing PROJECTION section on the LAYER section in
the map file (it's not enough to declare the projection outside the layers)

The size of the image is really 600x600, you may try with $map->width, 
$map->height instead of the fixed numbers.

-- 
V. <v at w.cl>


From assefa at dmsolutions.ca  Thu Aug  9 16:57:49 2001
From: assefa at dmsolutions.ca (Assefa Yewondwossen)
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 19:57:49 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] PHP ZoomPoint
References: <sb72b6b0.008@email.mountainland.org>
Message-ID: <3B73237C.DB294147@dmsolutions.ca>

Hi There,

 I am not sure that I know waht would be the problem. If you send me your map file with one layer data, I can look at it early next week.

 Some thoughts : the zoompoint functionnality is affected by the parameters MINSCALE and MAXSCALE (in the Web oblect). If tou have set these parameters please remove them and do the same tests.


 Best Regards,


ANDREW WOOLEY wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I am getting what seems to me to be strange results on my zoompoint method.  I feel like I have followed the docs pretty closely and have even tried an example that I found in the email archives, but still have yet to get a useable result.
>
> I am using MapScript Version (Aug 1, 2001), a nightly build and when executing the code:
>
> $ptClicked = ms_newPointObj();
> $ptClicked->setXY($mainmap_x,$mainmap_y);
>
> $extent = ms_newRectObj();
> $extent->setextent($map->extent->minx, $map->extent->miny, $map->extent->maxx, $map->extent->maxy);
>
> $map->zoompoint(2, $ptClicked, 600, 600, $extent);
>
> When I echo the extent minx, etc. it gives reasonable coordinates for the map extent (1800193, 825044, 2115496, 542882), however, after this code executes and I echo the new extent, I get good values for some of the coordinates but not others (1877442.235, -78702.92, 2035093.735, 78702.92).  Can someone explain to me what I am doing wrong and why the negative values show up?  Thanks.
>
> Andrew Wooley
> GIS Operations Manager
> Mountainland Association of Governments
> Orem, UT
>
> phone:  801.229.3844
> fax:       801.229.3801
> email:   awooley at mountainland.org

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From rob at socialchange.net.au  Thu Aug  9 19:14:56 2001
From: rob at socialchange.net.au (Rob Atkinson)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 12:14:56 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] FW: Need direction for enhancing Mapserver
References: <OF0FF6BEB4.4EB45A60-ON85256AA3.0034D791@stricom.army.mil>
Message-ID: <3B7343A0.D44D03BD@socialchange.net.au>


You need a "gazetteer service" - do you build it internally (stovepipe) or do you link to network
addressable services. I'm working up a spec for the OpenGIS consortium for this service, and looking
for sponsors for an implementation pilot.

Q: Do want you implement mapserver as a gazetteer (possible) or link to other database services
(more likely)?

Regards

Rob Atkinson

Dan_Stevens at stricom.army.mil wrote:

> on the GUI side, and can already use the mapserver to query her world map
> to get the coordinates for a requested area, but the user must manually
> enter the text lat/long to actually retrieve the data, a process that is
> both "user unfriendly" and error prone.
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From eduardo at metodoinv.com.br  Thu Aug  9 20:40:36 2001
From: eduardo at metodoinv.com.br (Eduardo Patto Kanegae)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 00:40:36 -0300
Subject: [mapserver-users] what 'bout mapserver's future
Message-ID: <008201c1214e$54505100$0c01a8c0@intranet>

i've been studing 'n' trying MapServer since the last 12 months...
    i was searching for a good GPL+web+gis tool to avoid ArcIMS, cause
it's too much expensive and so...i saw mapserver and this list.

i've liked too much because:
-it's free! it's GPL
-it's simple to use(does anybody here has developed something with ESRI
MapObjects with VisualBasic? :-(  )
-it's fast
-it's stable : it is at 3.x version... it's better than 0.2 or 0.5 ....
-it's portable : u can use it under Linux or Windows with a little of
modifications
-...

so, finally , my question is :
-and what about the future? could mapserver loose its projects like
Nautilus(EazeL)?
and what i can do help keeping this project alive?

[]'s

Eduardo Patto Kanegae



From eduardo at metodoinv.com.br  Thu Aug  9 20:41:30 2001
From: eduardo at metodoinv.com.br (Eduardo Patto Kanegae)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 00:41:30 -0300
Subject: [mapserver-users] free DBF editor ? is there anyone?
Message-ID: <008801c1214e$814c1fe0$0c01a8c0@intranet>


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Eduardo Patto Kanegae 
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu 
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 6:22 PM
Subject: free DBF editor ? is there anyone?


does anybody know an editor for DBF files maintance?

i have to add fields to my shapefiles but don't have(too much expensive)
ESRI ArvView....

any GPL tool or somethin like this...
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From eduardo at metodoinv.com.br  Thu Aug  9 20:41:30 2001
From: eduardo at metodoinv.com.br (Eduardo Patto Kanegae)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 00:41:30 -0300
Subject: [mapserver-users] [Freegis-list] free DBF editor ? is there anyone?
Message-ID: <008801c1214e$814c1fe0$0c01a8c0@intranet>


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Eduardo Patto Kanegae 
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu 
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 6:22 PM
Subject: free DBF editor ? is there anyone?


does anybody know an editor for DBF files maintance?

i have to add fields to my shapefiles but don't have(too much expensive)
ESRI ArvView....

any GPL tool or somethin like this...
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From pkishor at GeoAnalytics.com  Thu Aug  9 21:49:18 2001
From: pkishor at GeoAnalytics.com (Puneet Kishor)
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 23:49:18 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] what 'bout mapserver's future
In-Reply-To: <008201c1214e$54505100$0c01a8c0@intranet>
Message-ID: <200108100450.XAA07282@lists.gis.umn.edu>


On Thursday, August 9, 2001, at 10:40  PM, Eduardo Patto Kanegae wrote:

> i've been studing 'n' trying MapServer since the last 12 months...
>     i was searching for a good GPL+web+gis tool to avoid ArcIMS, cause
> it's too much expensive and so...i saw mapserver and this list.
>
> i've liked too much because:
> -it's free! it's GPL
> -it's simple to use(does anybody here has developed something with ESRI
> MapObjects with VisualBasic? :-(  )
> -it's fast
> -it's stable : it is at 3.x version... it's better than 0.2 or 0.5 ....
> -it's portable : u can use it under Linux or Windows with a little of
> modifications
> -...
>
> so, finally , my question is :
> -and what about the future? could mapserver loose its projects like
> Nautilus(EazeL)?
> and what i can do help keeping this project alive?

Believe in it, and join the party, dude. The more people use it, the  
more people discover bugs and problems with it, the more people spread 
the word, the more people demo nice sites built with it, the better it 
is gonna be for Mapserver.
>

--
Puneet Kishor
pkishor at eidesis.org


From pkishor at GeoAnalytics.com  Thu Aug  9 21:52:40 2001
From: pkishor at GeoAnalytics.com (Puneet Kishor)
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 23:52:40 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] free DBF editor ? is there anyone?
In-Reply-To: <008801c1214e$814c1fe0$0c01a8c0@intranet>
Message-ID: <200108100454.XAA07322@lists.gis.umn.edu>

On Thursday, August 9, 2001, at 10:41  PM, Eduardo Patto Kanegae wrote:

?
----- Original Message -----
 From: Eduardo Patto Kanegae
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 6:22 PM
Subject: free DBF editor ? is there anyone?

does anybody know an editor for DBF files maintance?
?
i have to add fields to my shapefiles but don't have(too much expensive)
ESRI ArvView....
?
any GPL tool or somethin like this...
----

most spreadsheet kinda tools will open dbf files... try StarOffice... 
the spreadsheet as well as the database module will work with dbf files. 
Be careful with the row order... don't delete any rows or reorder 
them... they will get out of sync with your shp file and then you would 
be royally screwed. Otherwise, you can edit their contents to your 
heart's fill.

Btw, you would be better off storing only a featureid in the dbf file 
and moving all the attributes to a real database such as MySQL.

--
Puneet Kishor
pkishor at eidesis.org



From sylvain.speh at CLERMONT.cemagref.fr  Thu Aug  9 23:13:19 2001
From: sylvain.speh at CLERMONT.cemagref.fr (Speh Sylvain)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 08:13:19 +0200
Subject: [mapserver-users] free DBF editor ? is there anyone?
Message-ID: <F17CAFD56F9CD1118E3A0060972339200168BFDF@lassolas.clermont.cemagref.fr>

Hi,

On Windows,I tried Excel 2000, but I couln'd add any kind of column. Excel
Apparently doesn't find the release of the DBFILE ( looking for a 3+ or a 4
one ). But I succeeded in changing text  values.


If this could help you ...



-----Message d'origine-----
De : Puneet Kishor [mailto:pkishor at GeoAnalytics.com]
Envoy? : vendredi 10 ao?t 2001 06:53
? : Eduardo Patto Kanegae
Cc : MapServer-Users; FreeGIS
Objet : Re: [mapserver-users] free DBF editor ? is there anyone?


On Thursday, August 9, 2001, at 10:41  PM, Eduardo Patto Kanegae wrote:

?
----- Original Message -----
 From: Eduardo Patto Kanegae
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 6:22 PM
Subject: free DBF editor ? is there anyone?

does anybody know an editor for DBF files maintance?
?
i have to add fields to my shapefiles but don't have(too much expensive)
ESRI ArvView....
?
any GPL tool or somethin like this...
----

most spreadsheet kinda tools will open dbf files... try StarOffice... 
the spreadsheet as well as the database module will work with dbf files. 
Be careful with the row order... don't delete any rows or reorder 
them... they will get out of sync with your shp file and then you would 
be royally screwed. Otherwise, you can edit their contents to your 
heart's fill.

Btw, you would be better off storing only a featureid in the dbf file 
and moving all the attributes to a real database such as MySQL.

--
Puneet Kishor
pkishor at eidesis.org


From zhox at yeah.net  Thu Aug  9 23:18:07 2001
From: zhox at yeah.net (Zhou Xu)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 14:18:7 +0800
Subject: [mapserver-users] help! About Character-Set used in label
Message-ID: <20010810062746.D028C1CC48569@smtp2.yeah.net>

Hi,

I am using mapserver and php/mapscript,but I am troubled by the Character-set. I mean there are a lot of Chinese characters in my data, but I can't put them as label on the rendered map, which is necessary for me.

would you please share your experience with me?  any words about this is appreciated.


-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Zhou,Xu
ZiZhuYuan BaishengCun No.1
NGCC
Post Code, 100044
Beijing, China
Phone: +86 10 86851042
Fax:   +86 10 68424101
 
Email: std at nsdi.gov.cn
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------




From bronsema at dmsolutions.ca  Fri Aug 10 05:23:12 2001
From: bronsema at dmsolutions.ca (William A. Bronsema, C.E.T.)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 08:23:12 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] free DBF editor ? is there anyone?
In-Reply-To: <F17CAFD56F9CD1118E3A0060972339200168BFDF@lassolas.clermont.cemagref.fr>
Message-ID: <NFBBIEDDDKLIKMCEFCMAIEGACAAA.bronsema@dmsolutions.ca>

Speh Sylvain wrote:

>On Windows,I tried Excel 2000, but I couln'd add any kind of column. Excel
>Apparently doesn't find the release of the DBFILE ( looking for a 3+ or a 4
>one ). But I succeeded in changing text  values.


It is possible to add a column in Excel 2000 and 97 (and 95?).  In order to
do this, you need to re-define the "Name" range for the file so it includes
the added column.  Be VERY careful when modifying such a file in Excel
because of Excel's nasty habit of modifying field types.  Personally I don't
recommend using Excel to make these modifications, but if it all you have to
work with.... :)

If you want more details on how to do this, let me know.

Bill


-----------------------------
William A. Bronsema, C.E.T.
DM Solutions Group Inc.
Ottawa, Ontario
http://www.dmsolutions.ca/






From mcilhagga at dmsolutions.ca  Fri Aug 10 06:00:17 2001
From: mcilhagga at dmsolutions.ca (Dave McIlhagga)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:00:17 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] PHP / MapScript Useage
References: <3B731007.29D12AD1@dmsolutions.ca>
Message-ID: <3B73DAE1.5E289519@dmsolutions.ca>

Hi Everyone,

It's been about a year and a half now since we first released PHP /
MapScript to the MapServer community.  In that time, I have noticed on
the list what appears to be a rapid growth in it's useage.

We're continuing to seek opportunities for funding related to further
enhancements to MapServer and ongoing support of PHP / MapScript.  It
would be a big help to us if we could get a sense of how large the user
base is for the PHP/MapScript module and how it is being used.


I would appreciate it if I could get a quick note from those of you
using the module indicating:

1. Type of organization
2. Brief description of how PHP/MapScript is being used in your
organization
3. Number of applications in use.

Please respond directly to me as I'm sure the whole list doesn't need to
see all of this.  I will only use summary information only, not
individual information to assist us.  I'm expecting to get quite a few
messages, so I can't promise I'll be responding to each message, but I
will post a summary of our findings to the list in case anyone else out
there is wondering.


Thanks for all your assistance.  With any luck, it will result in
further enhancements to MapServer for all of us to enjoy.

Dave
-- 
Dave McIlhagga
President, DM Solutions Group

http://www.dmsolutions.ca
----------------------------
Innovative Spatial Solutions
----------------------------

EMail : McIlhagga at DMSolutions.ca
Phone : 613-565-5056
Cell : 613-261-3913
Fax : 707-222-1943
Address : 116 Lisgar St.,
          Suite 400,
          Ottawa, Ontario
          K2P 0C2


From paul at toolscenter.org  Fri Aug 10 06:07:54 2001
From: paul at toolscenter.org (Paul Selormey)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 22:07:54 +0900
Subject: [mapserver-users] Re: [Freegis-list] free DBF editor ? is there anyone?
References: <008801c1214e$814c1fe0$0c01a8c0@intranet>
Message-ID: <003901c1219d$797f6a20$700201c0@nsepaul>

Hello,
I do not know of any or have one. However, I am currently playing a lot with shapefiles
and could work on one if you can come with some specifications.

Also, I work mainly on the Windows platform for developments and will not be able to handle
Linux/Unix stuff immediately.

Best regards,
Paul.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Eduardo Patto Kanegae 
  To: MapServer-Users ; FreeGIS 
  Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 12:41 PM
  Subject: [Freegis-list] free DBF editor ? is there anyone?



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Eduardo Patto Kanegae 
  To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 6:22 PM
  Subject: free DBF editor ? is there anyone?


  does anybody know an editor for DBF files maintance?

  i have to add fields to my shapefiles but don't have(too much expensive)
  ESRI ArvView....

  any GPL tool or somethin like this...
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From paul at toolscenter.org  Fri Aug 10 06:11:05 2001
From: paul at toolscenter.org (Paul Selormey)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 22:11:05 +0900
Subject: [mapserver-users] Re: [Freegis-list] free DBF editor ? is there anyone?
References: <008801c1214e$814c1fe0$0c01a8c0@intranet>
Message-ID: <004101c1219d$ec050aa0$700201c0@nsepaul>

Hello,
Are you a computer programmer? MS VC++ database sample DBViewer has editing features you might wish
to take a look.
If you are not a programmer, I could send a compiled binary to you directly.

Best regards,
Paul.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Eduardo Patto Kanegae 
  To: MapServer-Users ; FreeGIS 
  Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 12:41 PM
  Subject: [Freegis-list] free DBF editor ? is there anyone?



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Eduardo Patto Kanegae 
  To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 6:22 PM
  Subject: free DBF editor ? is there anyone?


  does anybody know an editor for DBF files maintance?

  i have to add fields to my shapefiles but don't have(too much expensive)
  ESRI ArvView....

  any GPL tool or somethin like this...
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From paul at toolscenter.org  Fri Aug 10 06:07:54 2001
From: paul at toolscenter.org (Paul Selormey)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 22:07:54 +0900
Subject: [mapserver-users] Re: [Freegis-list] free DBF editor ? is there anyone?
References: <008801c1214e$814c1fe0$0c01a8c0@intranet>
Message-ID: <003901c1219d$797f6a20$700201c0@nsepaul>

Hello,
I do not know of any or have one. However, I am currently playing a lot with shapefiles
and could work on one if you can come with some specifications.

Also, I work mainly on the Windows platform for developments and will not be able to handle
Linux/Unix stuff immediately.

Best regards,
Paul.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Eduardo Patto Kanegae 
  To: MapServer-Users ; FreeGIS 
  Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 12:41 PM
  Subject: [Freegis-list] free DBF editor ? is there anyone?



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Eduardo Patto Kanegae 
  To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 6:22 PM
  Subject: free DBF editor ? is there anyone?


  does anybody know an editor for DBF files maintance?

  i have to add fields to my shapefiles but don't have(too much expensive)
  ESRI ArvView....

  any GPL tool or somethin like this...
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From pkishor at GeoAnalytics.com  Fri Aug 10 06:47:22 2001
From: pkishor at GeoAnalytics.com (Puneet Kishor)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 08:47:22 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] free DBF editor ? is there anyone?
In-Reply-To: <F17CAFD56F9CD1118E3A0060972339200168BFDF@lassolas.clermont.cemagref.fr>
Message-ID: <200108101348.IAA12083@lists.gis.umn.edu>

Quick tips on using Excel to work on dbfs --

1. contiguous rectangular range named "Database" is saved as dbf.
2. width of column determines width of field (change width by dragging 
the column edges...) keep the width whole numbers.
3. the first row contains field names. Field names have to be 10 
characters or less.
4. the values in the second row define the field.

More on #4 above --

if a column is called "BIRTHDATE" (that is, "BIRTHDATE" is entered in 
the first row), that column won't automatically become a date column. If 
the second row in that column contains a valid date then that column 
will become a date column, otherwise it will default to text. Be 
careful, even an empty cell in the second row will screw up the column 
definition.

Don't delete a row... that will screw up the alignment with the shape 
file!

If you add a column (or delete one), select the entire range of cells, 
and redefine it as "Database" (you should see the range name just to the 
left of the entry box above the sheet.

Hth,

pk/

On Friday, August 10, 2001, at 01:13  AM, Speh Sylvain wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Windows,I tried Excel 2000, but I couln'd add any kind of column. 
> Excel
> Apparently doesn't find the release of the DBFILE ( looking for a 3+ or 
> a 4
> one ). But I succeeded in changing text  values.
>
>
> If this could help you ...
>
>
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Puneet Kishor [mailto:pkishor at GeoAnalytics.com]
> Envoy? : vendredi 10 ao?t 2001 06:53
> ? : Eduardo Patto Kanegae
> Cc : MapServer-Users; FreeGIS
> Objet : Re: [mapserver-users] free DBF editor ? is there anyone?
>
>
> On Thursday, August 9, 2001, at 10:41  PM, Eduardo Patto Kanegae wrote:
>
> ?
> ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Eduardo Patto Kanegae
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 6:22 PM
> Subject: free DBF editor ? is there anyone?
>
> does anybody know an editor for DBF files maintance?
> ?
> i have to add fields to my shapefiles but don't have(too much expensive)
> ESRI ArvView....
> ?
> any GPL tool or somethin like this...
> ----
>
> most spreadsheet kinda tools will open dbf files... try StarOffice...
> the spreadsheet as well as the database module will work with dbf files.
> Be careful with the row order... don't delete any rows or reorder
> them... they will get out of sync with your shp file and then you would
> be royally screwed. Otherwise, you can edit their contents to your
> heart's fill.
>
> Btw, you would be better off storing only a featureid in the dbf file
> and moving all the attributes to a real database such as MySQL.
>
--
Puneet Kishor
pkishor at eidesis.org


From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Fri Aug 10 07:26:46 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 10:26:46 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] shape->intesects
References: <997390697.3b72f969a1185@imp.free.fr>
Message-ID: <3B73EF26.574FC9E@dmsolutions.ca>

Jean-Fran?ois MONY wrote:
> 
> I've some questions on the intersects fonction of a shape object.
> I've tried it on multi-part polygon and the result was not really fine.
> After some search, I find that the total inclusion of a polygon in another was
> not take in count by this function.
> 
> After a look on the mapscript.i, I thought that the problem came from :
> 
<snipped>
> 
> But I've tried to recompil mapserver with the following modification, and
> nothing change.
> 
>          return msIntersectPolygons(self, shape);  <<=======
> 
> Is there somebody with a comment or an idea ?
> 

PHP MapScript uses a modified copy of mapscript.i that is
C-compilable... it's in mapscript/php3/mapscript_i.c ... if you make
your change there then you should see the change.

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.


From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Fri Aug 10 07:31:29 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:31:29 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] help! About Character-Set used in label
Message-ID: <sb73a9f8.042@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

This is more a GD issue than MapServer. GD bitmap fonts have very limited character sets
so they won't be of much use. However, newer versions of GD with Freetype have been extended to
deal with international character sets and should support just about anything as long as the correct
character mappings are present in the font.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> Zhou Xu <zhox at yeah.net> 08/10/01 01:18AM >>>
Hi,

I am using mapserver and php/mapscript,but I am troubled by the Character-set. I mean there are a lot of Chinese characters in my data, but I can't put them as label on the rendered map, which is necessary for me.

would you please share your experience with me?  any words about this is appreciated.


-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Zhou,Xu
ZiZhuYuan BaishengCun No.1
NGCC
Post Code, 100044
Beijing, China
Phone: +86 10 86851042
Fax:   +86 10 68424101
 
Email: std at nsdi.gov.cn 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------





From vieglais at ku.edu  Fri Aug 10 07:36:58 2001
From: vieglais at ku.edu (Dave Vieglais)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:36:58 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] FW: Need direction for enhancing Mapserver
In-Reply-To: <3B7343A0.D44D03BD@socialchange.net.au>
Message-ID: <001401c121a9$e91df9d0$d9c9ed81@life.ku.edu>

Take a look at

http://alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu/~gjanee/gazettr/specification.html

for an ADL's spec for a gazetteer service.  I'm not sure if they have
actually implemented it though (at least not publicly).

Dave V.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu 
>[mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu] On Behalf Of 
>Rob Atkinson
>Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 9:15 PM
>To: Dan_Stevens at stricom.army.mil
>Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu; Chan_Huynh at stricom.army.mil
>Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] FW: Need direction for 
>enhancing Mapserver
>
>
>
>You need a "gazetteer service" - do you build it internally 
>(stovepipe) or do you link to network
>addressable services. I'm working up a spec for the OpenGIS 
>consortium for this service, and looking
>for sponsors for an implementation pilot.
>
>Q: Do want you implement mapserver as a gazetteer (possible) 
>or link to other database services
>(more likely)?
>
>Regards
>
>Rob Atkinson
>
>Dan_Stevens at stricom.army.mil wrote:
>
>> on the GUI side, and can already use the mapserver to query 
>her world map
>> to get the coordinates for a requested area, but the user 
>must manually
>> enter the text lat/long to actually retrieve the data, a 
>process that is
>> both "user unfriendly" and error prone.
>
>



From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Fri Aug 10 07:36:23 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:36:23 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] maximum number of classes
Message-ID: <sb73ab33.056@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

Hey, they seemed like reasonable limits at the time. The current limit on layers is 100, and for
classes it's 50. You can certainly change them, but not at runtime. You'll have to edit map.h
and change the values for MS_MAXLAYERS and MS_MAXCLASSES to suit your needs
and re-compile. 

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> Nicolau Werneck <nwerneck at yahoo.com.br> 08/09/01 06:01PM >>>
  The documentation says that there's a maximum number
of 50 layers possibe to define in a map file... Is
there also a maximum number of 50 classes to be
defined on a layer???

  Whyyyyy? :(

++nicolau



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From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Fri Aug 10 07:34:31 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 10:34:31 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] PHP ZoomPoint
References: <sb72b6b0.008@email.mountainland.org>
Message-ID: <3B73F0F7.7B731AC6@dmsolutions.ca>

ANDREW WOOLEY wrote:
> 
> When I echo the extent minx, etc. it gives reasonable coordinates for the map extent (1800193, 825044, 2115496, 542882), however, after this code executes and I echo the new extent, I get good values for some of the coordinates but not others (1877442.235, -78702.92, 2035093.735, 78702.92).  Can someone explain to me what I am doing wrong and why the negative values show up?  Thanks.
> 

You wrote that your original extents were:
  (1800193, 825044, 2115496, 542882)

I notice that YMin > YMax ... maybe that confused the ZoomPoint()
function... try again with YMin < YMax ... and if it works this time
then please file a bug in the MapServer bugzilla about this and we'll
fix ZoomPoint() to deal with this properly.

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.


From vrraju  Fri Aug 10 09:00:37 2001
From: vrraju (Ranga Raju Vatsavai)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 101 11:00:36 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] Post in mapserver mailing list (fwd)
Message-ID: <200108101600.LAA13432@lists.gis.umn.edu>

Forwarded message:

From robert.schmitz-huebsch at web.de  Sun Aug  5 03:36:17 2001
From: robert.schmitz-huebsch at web.de (Robert Schmitz-Huebsch)
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 12:36:17 +0200
Subject: Post in mapserver mailing list
Message-ID: <3B6D21A1.B08509E4@web.de>

Hi,

I use Mapserver for my theoratical thesis at the University of Hannover,
Germany (and maybe later, too :-)).
I would like to participate in some of the discussions of the mapserver
mailing listing or open a new thread, maybe. But I found that the
HTML-Interface at

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

does not let me do so - do I have to sign up somewhere? Where?

As a work around, could you be so kind and forward the following request
to the list for me, please?
...maybe you have an idea about it already.

Thanks,

Robert



______________________________________________________________________________



Hi,

I try to set up an attribute query with mapserver.
All hits ought to be shown highlighted in the map.

130.75.85.56/uni2_init.html

I have a shapefile layer with an attribute field called "qual". The
values 0, 1 or 2 are saved in the column.
I already used the following possibilities:

HTML:
mode="itemquery" (many different possible)
item="qual"
value="0,1,2" (you can choose with HTML-Interface)
qlayer="therightlayer"

.map-file:
QUERYITEM="qual"
EXPRESSION="?!??!" (is this really necessary?)


Bye the way:
...what does "searchmap" do?
Why do I always get the "no results found"-answer?

Following the Mapserver Testsuite Example 4
(http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/mapserver_demos/tests/itemquery/test.html),

all this should be really a piece of cake....
Do I have to prepare the data in a special way?

Is there a "White Paper" or full-featured FAQ for Mapserver yet?


Please help!

Thanks a lot for advice,

Robert



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From ncowham at forumone.com  Fri Aug 10 09:01:58 2001
From: ncowham at forumone.com (Nyk Cowham)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 12:01:58 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Earth Force Green.org site launched
Message-ID: <C15E3D46408199449E5118C733ED7FCD0B4FE5@pluto.forumone.com>

Last week Forum One Communications finally launched the Earth Force
GREEN site (http://www.green.org/). The site provides resources for
educators who are teaching courses in watershed water quality
monitoring. Educators can create a water monitoring project and add data
to a central database of water quality data. They can then generate
charts comparing this data over time and with other multiple comparator
monitoring sites.

We used MapServer and Perl Mapscript to provide an easy way for project
owners to locate their monitoring site and find the watershed HUC code
and lat/long coordinates of the site. Once they have selected their site
location it will be added to the national map of GREEN monitoring sites
(http://www.green.org/sites/map/index.cgi?map=greensites.map)

Special thanks go to Stephen Lime for helping me add an additional
method to mapscript to handle templates.

Nyk Cowham
Forum One Communications
http://www.forumone.com/
Communicate Collaborate Change the world
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From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Fri Aug 10 09:07:32 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 12:07:32 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] what 'bout mapserver's future
References: <008201c1214e$54505100$0c01a8c0@intranet>
Message-ID: <3B7406C4.D373C0C9@dmsolutions.ca>

Eduardo Patto Kanegae wrote:
> 
> so, finally , my question is :
> -and what about the future? could mapserver loose its projects like
> Nautilus(EazeL)?
> and what i can do help keeping this project alive?
> 

MapServer can't "lose" it's project... it's an Open Source project so it
will exist as long as people will contribute to it.  That also means
Microsoft (or another giant) cannot decide to buy the rights on
MapServer tomorrow and shut it down.  ;)

However, as I wrote an Open Source project survives because of its users
and its contributors... so what you (and everyone else reading this) can
do to help depends on who you are and on your skills.  In addition to
"joining the party" and building/showing nice apps, you can contribute
by:

- If you're an application developer:
  - publish and document the source of your apps to help others getting
    started
  - join the documentation project and contribute some HOWTOs
  - review existing documentation and suggest fixes/improvements
  - support new users on the mailing list
  - help by regularily testing CVS snapshots on several architectures

- If you're a C/C++ developer:
  - all of the above!  :)
  - help with testing/fixing bugs reported on the list.
  - implement new features

- If you're a company or an organization using Mapserver:
  - I'm sure you use it because it's better and not because it's free :)
    but anyway think about all the money you saved on server licenses
    and try to return something to the MapServer community, either by
    funding enhancements to MapServer or if you have experienced 
    MapServer application developers in-house who would like to
    contribute to the MapServer project then your company could 
    contribute by letting them do it on company time.

All this will help keep MapServer alive... and keep in mind that almost
everyone with a bit of experience with MapServer has something they can
contribute.  If you think you can help they don't hesitate and go ahead!

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.



From AWOOLEY at mountainland.org  Fri Aug 10 09:10:52 2001
From: AWOOLEY at mountainland.org (ANDREW WOOLEY)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 10:10:52 -0600
Subject: [mapserver-users] PHP ZoomPoint
Message-ID: <sb73b339.035@email.state.ut.us>

Thanks to everyone who replied and offered their help.  This list rocks.

This is the correct answer:  For my rect extent, I changed the maxy and the miny and it worked as advertised.  Thanks very much for the assistance.

Daniel,  is this a bug or is it just my stupidity?  It seems more likely to be the latter.  Thanks again.

Andrew

Andrew Wooley
GIS Operations Manager
Mountainland Association of Governments
Orem, UT

phone:  801.229.3844
fax:       801.229.3801
email:   awooley at mountainland.org

>>> Daniel Morissette <morissette at dmsolutions.ca> 08/10 8:34 AM >>>
ANDREW WOOLEY wrote:
> 
> When I echo the extent minx, etc. it gives reasonable coordinates for the map extent (1800193, 825044, 2115496, 542882), however, after this code executes and I echo the new extent, I get good values for some of the coordinates but not others (1877442.235, -78702.92, 2035093.735, 78702.92).  Can someone explain to me what I am doing wrong and why the negative values show up?  Thanks.
> 

You wrote that your original extents were:
  (1800193, 825044, 2115496, 542882)

I notice that YMin > YMax ... maybe that confused the ZoomPoint()
function... try again with YMin < YMax ... and if it works this time
then please file a bug in the MapServer bugzilla about this and we'll
fix ZoomPoint() to deal with this properly.

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca 
 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/ 
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.



From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Fri Aug 10 09:24:55 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 12:24:55 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] PHP ZoomPoint
References: <sb73b33a.035@email.mountainland.org>
Message-ID: <3B740AD7.E4D4A571@dmsolutions.ca>

ANDREW WOOLEY wrote:
> 
> This is the correct answer:  For my rect extent, I changed the maxy and the miny and it worked as advertised.  Thanks very much for the assistance.
> 
> Daniel,  is this a bug or is it just my stupidity?  It seems more likely to be the latter.  Thanks again.
> 

Micro$oft would close this issue by saying "this is by design"  (I love
it when I read this on their website!  :)

However, even if you're expected to provide MinY < MaxY I think the
function should be strong enough to deal with that common mistake... and
for this reason I filed it as a bug which will hopefully be fixed before
the official 3.5 release:
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=33

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.


From AWOOLEY at mountainland.org  Fri Aug 10 09:42:17 2001
From: AWOOLEY at mountainland.org (ANDREW WOOLEY)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 10:42:17 -0600
Subject: [mapserver-users] PHP ZoomPoint
Message-ID: <sb73baa7.039@email.mountainland.org>

Ah, the beauties of the open source model.  No silly pride to get in the way.  You guys rock!  Thanks very much for the wonderful tools.  OK, so now I am gushing.  Sorry.


Andrew

Andrew Wooley
GIS Operations Manager
Mountainland Association of Governments
Orem, UT

phone:  801.229.3844
fax:       801.229.3801
email:   awooley at mountainland.org

>>> Daniel Morissette <morissette at dmsolutions.ca> 08/10 10:24 AM >>>
ANDREW WOOLEY wrote:
> 
> This is the correct answer:  For my rect extent, I changed the maxy and the miny and it worked as advertised.  Thanks very much for the assistance.
> 
> Daniel,  is this a bug or is it just my stupidity?  It seems more likely to be the latter.  Thanks again.
> 

Micro$oft would close this issue by saying "this is by design"  (I love
it when I read this on their website!  :)

However, even if you're expected to provide MinY < MaxY I think the
function should be strong enough to deal with that common mistake... and
for this reason I filed it as a bug which will hopefully be fixed before
the official 3.5 release:
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=33 

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca 
 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/ 
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.



From mscharber at josh.ucsd.edu  Fri Aug 10 09:49:38 2001
From: mscharber at josh.ucsd.edu (Michael Scharber)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:49:38 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] what 'bout mapserver's future
In-Reply-To: <200108100450.XAA07282@lists.gis.umn.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108100941170.31554-100000@trinity.ucsd.edu>

I couldn't agree more with both of you.  I've only just started playing
with MapServer and already I am thoroughly impressed by both it's ease of
use and rich functionality.

One thing someone should write though, is an Oracle Spatial CONNECTIONTYPE
(and support for it of course).  That way someone with Oracle Spatial, but
no SDE (could you imagine paying for and maintaining both), could just
plug in their layers from "Spatial" and be up and running with MapServer
in no time whatsoever.

Anyway, thanks to MapServer I have renewed faith in publicly available
spatial software...especially web mapping software like MapServer.  Keep
up the excellent work! :)

Michael



 On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Puneet Kishor
wrote:

>
> On Thursday, August 9, 2001, at 10:40  PM, Eduardo Patto Kanegae wrote:
>
> > i've been studing 'n' trying MapServer since the last 12 months...
> >     i was searching for a good GPL+web+gis tool to avoid ArcIMS, cause
> > it's too much expensive and so...i saw mapserver and this list.
> >
> > i've liked too much because:
> > -it's free! it's GPL
> > -it's simple to use(does anybody here has developed something with ESRI
> > MapObjects with VisualBasic? :-(  )
> > -it's fast
> > -it's stable : it is at 3.x version... it's better than 0.2 or 0.5 ....
> > -it's portable : u can use it under Linux or Windows with a little of
> > modifications
> > -...
> >
> > so, finally , my question is :
> > -and what about the future? could mapserver loose its projects like
> > Nautilus(EazeL)?
> > and what i can do help keeping this project alive?
>
> Believe in it, and join the party, dude. The more people use it, the
> more people discover bugs and problems with it, the more people spread
> the word, the more people demo nice sites built with it, the better it
> is gonna be for Mapserver.
> >
>
> --
> Puneet Kishor
> pkishor at eidesis.org
>



From warmerdam at pobox.com  Fri Aug 10 10:42:45 2001
From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 13:42:45 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] what 'bout mapserver's future
References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108100941170.31554-100000@trinity.ucsd.edu>
Message-ID: <3B741D15.8090602@pobox.com>



Michael Scharber wrote:

>I couldn't agree more with both of you.  I've only just started playing
>with MapServer and already I am thoroughly impressed by both it's ease of
>use and rich functionality.
>
>One thing someone should write though, is an Oracle Spatial CONNECTIONTYPE
>(and support for it of course).  That way someone with Oracle Spatial, but
>no SDE (could you imagine paying for and maintaining both), could just
>plug in their layers from "Spatial" and be up and running with MapServer
>in no time whatsoever.
>
Michael, 

Who has Oracle Spatial and would be willing to work on such a thing?  I 
happen to have recently received it (for NT) but haven't installed it yet. 

I imagine the PostGIS link could be fairly easily translated into an 
Oracle link if needed.

Best regards,

---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com
light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Programmer for Rent





From vieglais at ku.edu  Fri Aug 10 11:06:25 2001
From: vieglais at ku.edu (Dave Vieglais)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 13:06:25 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] MapServer COM interface
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108100941170.31554-100000@trinity.ucsd.edu>
Message-ID: <001c01c121c7$2bbf4b50$d9c9ed81@life.ku.edu>

Speaking about the future of MapServer...

I'm in the process of constructing a COM library for mapserver which
will provide similar functionality to MapScript except for COM aware
scripting languages such as VBA, VBScript and JavaScript on Win32
machines.  The idea is to enable tighter integration of MapServer with
IIS (for us poor souls that use Microsoft IIS for web services), and
also to enable basic map drawing facilities in apps like Excel, Word and
other "scriptable" apps.

Right now the software has about half the functionality of regular
MapScript (it can draw and zoom, save images, but not much more).  I
have no idea of how long it will be before the code will be ready for
general testing/use but to give an indication, the work is being done in
spare time, so it could take a while...  

Before I get too far down the road though, I wanted to check if anyone
else was doing similar work- no point in duplicating effort.  So if you
are, and/or are intersted in sharing some effort, please drop me a line.

cheers,
  Dave V.

=========================
David A. Vieglais
University of Kansas
Natural History Museum & 
Biodiversity Research Center
http://www.nhm.ukans.edu






From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Fri Aug 10 11:09:06 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 13:09:06 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] PHP ZoomPoint
Message-ID: <sb73dd06.040@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

Guess I should fix that then in the CGI version...

Steve

>>> "ANDREW WOOLEY" <AWOOLEY at mountainland.org> 08/10/01 11:42AM >>>
Ah, the beauties of the open source model.  No silly pride to get in the way.  You guys rock!  Thanks very much for the wonderful tools.  OK, so now I am gushing.  Sorry.


Andrew

Andrew Wooley
GIS Operations Manager
Mountainland Association of Governments
Orem, UT

phone:  801.229.3844
fax:       801.229.3801
email:   awooley at mountainland.org 

>>> Daniel Morissette <morissette at dmsolutions.ca> 08/10 10:24 AM >>>
ANDREW WOOLEY wrote:
> 
> This is the correct answer:  For my rect extent, I changed the maxy and the miny and it worked as advertised.  Thanks very much for the assistance.
> 
> Daniel,  is this a bug or is it just my stupidity?  It seems more likely to be the latter.  Thanks again.
> 

Micro$oft would close this issue by saying "this is by design"  (I love
it when I read this on their website!  :)

However, even if you're expected to provide MinY < MaxY I think the
function should be strong enough to deal with that common mistake... and
for this reason I filed it as a bug which will hopefully be fixed before
the official 3.5 release:
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=33 

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca 
 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/ 
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.




From ncowham at forumone.com  Fri Aug 10 11:22:35 2001
From: ncowham at forumone.com (Nyk Cowham)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 14:22:35 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Earth Force Green.org site launched
Message-ID: <C15E3D46408199449E5118C733ED7FCD0B0CA3@pluto.forumone.com>

Lowell:

As the developer I did in fact submit a request for a link to MapServer
to be included on the credits page of the site before the site launched.
However, the client argued that if we include links to MapServer, then
why not also include links to Apache, MySQL, PHP and all the other
software we have used (which they will not approve). I am having much
better luck arguing for credits to National Atlas for providing the base
map data. The credit to Forum One on the site was contractual condition
before development on the site started and I was not involved in that.

If there was provision in the Mapscript license that required branding
for MapServer to be included for all uses that would have been a
different matter. Essentially, we did not use the CGI application but
Mapscript - which is a perl module/library. Again, if we credited
Mapscript, then why not Template Toolkit which was also and important
library we used for developing the application.

If you can give me a compelling argument I can use for why
Mapscript/MapServer should be credited and not the other technologies we
used I will be happy to hear it. You can also try lobbying the client to
include a credit for our use of mapscript.

I have not been coy about crediting the MapServer project with providing
excellent base technology for the application; including promotiton of
MapServer at The Perl Conference in San Diego last month in both the
talk on Geo::TigerLine and Geo::Walkabout and in the BOF, and on various
Perl Monger lists.

The GREEN site may be publically cited on any site promoting
Mapscript/MapServer.

Nyk Cowham

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nyk Cowham 
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 12:02 PM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: [mapserver-users] Earth Force Green.org site launched
> 
> 
> Last week Forum One Communications finally launched the Earth Force
> GREEN site (http://www.green.org/). The site provides resources for
> educators who are teaching courses in watershed water quality
> monitoring. Educators can create a water monitoring project 
> and add data
> to a central database of water quality data. They can then generate
> charts comparing this data over time and with other multiple 
> comparator
> monitoring sites.
> 
> We used MapServer and Perl Mapscript to provide an easy way 
> for project
> owners to locate their monitoring site and find the watershed HUC code
> and lat/long coordinates of the site. Once they have selected 
> their site
> location it will be added to the national map of GREEN 
> monitoring sites
> (http://www.green.org/sites/map/index.cgi?map=greensites.map)
> 
> Special thanks go to Stephen Lime for helping me add an additional
> method to mapscript to handle templates.
> 
> Nyk Cowham
> Forum One Communications
> http://www.forumone.com/
> Communicate Collaborate Change the world
> 


From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Fri Aug 10 12:00:51 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 14:00:51 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] what 'bout mapserver's future
Message-ID: <sb73e926.000@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

There are 2 parties I've been in contact with that are pursuing this, and yes
they've been introduced to each other but I don't know the extent of any
discussions. They can chime in at anytime. Having not seen the Oracle
C API I don't know which (OGR/PostGIS or SDE) it more closely resembles
but I'm sure one of those can act as a model.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> 08/10/01 12:42PM >>>


Michael Scharber wrote:

>I couldn't agree more with both of you.  I've only just started playing
>with MapServer and already I am thoroughly impressed by both it's ease of
>use and rich functionality.
>
>One thing someone should write though, is an Oracle Spatial CONNECTIONTYPE
>(and support for it of course).  That way someone with Oracle Spatial, but
>no SDE (could you imagine paying for and maintaining both), could just
>plug in their layers from "Spatial" and be up and running with MapServer
>in no time whatsoever.
>
Michael, 

Who has Oracle Spatial and would be willing to work on such a thing?  I 
happen to have recently received it (for NT) but haven't installed it yet. 

I imagine the PostGIS link could be fairly easily translated into an 
Oracle link if needed.

Best regards,

---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
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light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam 
and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Programmer for Rent






From Matt.Wilkie at gov.yk.ca  Fri Aug 10 12:05:47 2001
From: Matt.Wilkie at gov.yk.ca (Matt.Wilkie)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 12:05:47 -0700
Subject: [mapserver-users] Earth Force Green.org site launched
Message-ID: <6DD7370C9452D31192A10008C75D07530B6F545E@raptor.gov.yk.ca>

> However, the client argued that if we include links to 
> MapServer, then why not also include links to Apache, 
> MySQL, PHP and all the other software we have used 

Why not indeed. Perhaps a page for "About this site's
technology" where all of the players could be credited 
would be appropriate.

just a thought,

-matt

-----------------------------------------------------------------
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http://renres.gov.yk.ca/pubs/rrgis/
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From ncowham at forumone.com  Fri Aug 10 13:45:23 2001
From: ncowham at forumone.com (Nyk Cowham)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 16:45:23 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Earth Force Green.org site launched
Message-ID: <C15E3D46408199449E5118C733ED7FCD0B4FEB@pluto.forumone.com>


> > However, the client argued that if we include links to 
> > MapServer, then why not also include links to Apache, 
> > MySQL, PHP and all the other software we have used 
> 
> Why not indeed. Perhaps a page for "About this site's
> technology" where all of the players could be credited 
> would be appropriate.
> 
> just a thought,
> 
> -matt

Oh absolutely! As an open source developer working with mostly open
source solutions I am encourage giving due credit to developers and
showcasing the underlying technologies of the sites we build. However,
this client is not interested in the fact that we use open source, and
they do not want any references to underlying technology on their site.
However, many of our other clients really don't care about what we do
with the credits pages we add and I try whenever possible to use them as
an advocacy platform for the open source software we use.

Nyk.


From eduardo at metodoinv.com.br  Sat Aug 11 13:53:26 2001
From: eduardo at metodoinv.com.br (Eduardo Patto Kanegae)
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 17:53:26 -0300
Subject: [mapserver-users] how to save data without puting it on shapefiles .DBF's
References: <200108100452.f7A4qS311318@omecihuatl.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de>
Message-ID: <006501c122a7$ac43eca0$0c01a8c0@intranet>

----- Original Message -----
 From: Eduardo Patto Kanegae
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 6:22 PM
Subject: free DBF editor ? is there anyone?

does anybody know an editor for DBF files maintance?

i have to add fields to my shapefiles but don't have(too much expensive)
ESRI ArvView....

any GPL tool or somethin like this...
----

most spreadsheet kinda tools will open dbf files... try StarOffice...
the spreadsheet as well as the database module will work with dbf files.
Be careful with the row order... don't delete any rows or reorder
them... they will get out of sync with your shp file and then you would
be royally screwed. Otherwise, you can edit their contents to your
heart's fill.

Btw, you would be better off storing only a featureid in the dbf file
and moving all the attributes to a real database such as MySQL.


@@@yes, someone has already said this to me: "for each polygon/line/point at
a shapefile
@@@it's better to create a unique ID and save this same ID to a table in
database.
@@@but how could i do my theme queries after doing this?

--
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pkishor at eidesis.org


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From Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au  Sat Aug 11 20:54:10 2001
From: Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au (Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au)
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 13:54:10 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] free DBF editor ? is there anyone?
Message-ID: <595FE28AB1EBD111920F0060B06B3DD70730C06D@ACTMAIL2>

Perl will do it (use the XBase modules).

    use XBase;
    my $newtable = XBase->create("name" => "copy.dbf",
                "field_names" => [ "ID", "MSG" ],
                "field_types" => [ "N", "C" ],
                "field_lengths" => [ 6, 40 ],
                "field_decimals" => [ 0, undef ]);

Cheers,

Antti



From clip at idirect.com  Sun Aug 12 10:45:12 2001
From: clip at idirect.com (clip)
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 13:45:12 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Zoom-out using Mapplet rubber-band box on Reference Map Image
Message-ID: <3B76C0A8.15C59844@idirect.com>

Is it possible to use the rubber-band zoom-box function of the "mapplet"
java applet, on a reference map to "zoom-out".  I'd like to be able to
do this after users have zoomed-in and then want to zoom-out to a
different area and extent on the reference map, rather then force them
to return to the initial map extent and begin all over to zoom-in on the
new area they are interested in.

Tom Cadman
Planner
Regional Municipality of Durham



From armin.burger at territoriumonline.com  Mon Aug 13 01:17:51 2001
From: armin.burger at territoriumonline.com (Armin Burger)
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:17:51 +0200
Subject: [mapserver-users] truetype support for 3.5 win binaries?
Message-ID: <200108130817.KAA07587@efferd.nettz.com>

Is there any win binary for ms 3.5 that has truetype support built in? The
readme file says
 'compiled with this distribution are:
  PNG, JPEG, TIFF/GeoTIFF, Proj4, Freetype 2.'

but when I configure labels to use truetype I get the following error
message:

'msGetLabelSize(): TrueType Font error. libgd was not built with TrueType
font support'.

I used the gif version (the readme file is probably the same for png and
gif). The php enabled version from dm solutions offers tt support but the
result of the output is a bit poor, no comparison to the good quality from
the ms 3.4.

I dont't have a clue, is it necessary to install Freetype additionally?

Thanks for any help

Armin

--
Armin Burger
Territorium Online
Siemensstrasse/Via Siemens 19 - 39100 Bozen/Bolzano - Italia
_


From kames at keyspanenergy.com  Mon Aug 13 07:13:53 2001
From: kames at keyspanenergy.com (Kieran J. Ames)
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:13:53 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Java Applet Development
Message-ID: <3B77E0A1.4AE5CB93@keyspanenergy.com>

Are there any users/developers who have played with a Java interface to
MapServer data, other than the wonderful mapimage applet?
I'm thinking of a measuring tool that could be used to make a
rudimentary ruler, where a user could click from
point-to-point-to-point, drawing a line and getting an indication of the
length of the line that was drawn.
The maps I render are typically only in the "town/neighborhood" range,
and I can't speak to great-circles, projections vs decimal degrees, etc.
But I would think that a map that has a given extent would have some
sort of distance per pixel value that could be calculated and applied to
a line drawing tool. Specifically, I'd like to be able to offer the user
the ability to get an Ad-Hoc distance estimate when viewing a
neighborhood by "tracing" a line over the streets they're viewing and
figure out how many linear feet (meters/yards) were traveled: as opposed
to "as the crow flies" straight line distances.
Any Java-wise users out there that have explored this kind of
functionality?
Thanks,
Kieran



From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Mon Aug 13 07:29:09 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:29:09 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Java Applet Development
References: <3B77E0A1.4AE5CB93@keyspanenergy.com>
Message-ID: <3B77E435.D3F82CD3@dmsolutions.ca>

Kieran,

The ROSA applet can do exactly that... see section "4 - distance
measurement tool" in the ROSA docs at
http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/webtools/rosa/rosa_params.html

You can see an example of it in use in Environment Canada's species at
risk application at
http://www.sis.ec.gc.ca/msapps/ec_species/htdocs/ec_species_e.phtml

The measured distance is displayed in the status bar of the browser
window... no need to say that the distance is only approximative due to
the projection issues that you mentioned.

Best Regards,

Daniel


"Kieran J. Ames" wrote:
> 
> Are there any users/developers who have played with a Java interface to
> MapServer data, other than the wonderful mapimage applet?
> I'm thinking of a measuring tool that could be used to make a
> rudimentary ruler, where a user could click from
> point-to-point-to-point, drawing a line and getting an indication of the
> length of the line that was drawn.
> The maps I render are typically only in the "town/neighborhood" range,
> and I can't speak to great-circles, projections vs decimal degrees, etc.
> But I would think that a map that has a given extent would have some
> sort of distance per pixel value that could be calculated and applied to
> a line drawing tool. Specifically, I'd like to be able to offer the user
> the ability to get an Ad-Hoc distance estimate when viewing a
> neighborhood by "tracing" a line over the streets they're viewing and
> figure out how many linear feet (meters/yards) were traveled: as opposed
> to "as the crow flies" straight line distances.
> Any Java-wise users out there that have explored this kind of
> functionality?
> Thanks,
> Kieran



From mcilhagga at dmsolutions.ca  Mon Aug 13 07:34:30 2001
From: mcilhagga at dmsolutions.ca (Dave McIlhagga)
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:34:30 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Java Applet Development
References: <3B77E0A1.4AE5CB93@keyspanenergy.com>
Message-ID: <3B77E576.C4B416D3@dmsolutions.ca>

Kieran,

The ROSA applet supports this functionality directly:

http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/mapserver/rosa/index.html

Dave



"Kieran J. Ames" wrote:
> 
> Are there any users/developers who have played with a Java interface to
> MapServer data, other than the wonderful mapimage applet?
> I'm thinking of a measuring tool that could be used to make a
> rudimentary ruler, where a user could click from
> point-to-point-to-point, drawing a line and getting an indication of the
> length of the line that was drawn.
> The maps I render are typically only in the "town/neighborhood" range,
> and I can't speak to great-circles, projections vs decimal degrees, etc.
> But I would think that a map that has a given extent would have some
> sort of distance per pixel value that could be calculated and applied to
> a line drawing tool. Specifically, I'd like to be able to offer the user
> the ability to get an Ad-Hoc distance estimate when viewing a
> neighborhood by "tracing" a line over the streets they're viewing and
> figure out how many linear feet (meters/yards) were traveled: as opposed
> to "as the crow flies" straight line distances.
> Any Java-wise users out there that have explored this kind of
> functionality?
> Thanks,
> Kieran

-- 
Dave McIlhagga
President, DM Solutions Group

http://www.dmsolutions.ca
----------------------------
Innovative Spatial Solutions
----------------------------

EMail : McIlhagga at DMSolutions.ca
Phone : 613-565-5056
Cell : 613-261-3913
Fax : 707-222-1943
Address : 116 Lisgar St.,
          Suite 400,
          Ottawa, Ontario
          K2P 0C2


From bfischer at mpls.houstoneng.com  Mon Aug 13 09:01:52 2001
From: bfischer at mpls.houstoneng.com (Brian Fischer)
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:01:52 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Java Applet Development
Message-ID: <8879CCE0F0187742B7302A93A8B87B090297DB@mpls.houstoneng.com>

Kieran,

The DM Solutions group also has an applet (Rosa Applet) that provides a
measure tool.  I am sure you will get plenty of responses, but incase
you don't here is the web page for it
(http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/mapserver/rosa/index.html) This should work
for you.  I would be a big user if this function was added to SDL's
mapplet.

-Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: Kieran J. Ames [mailto:kames at keyspanenergy.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 9:14 AM
To: mapserver list
Subject: [mapserver-users] Java Applet Development

Are there any users/developers who have played with a Java interface to
MapServer data, other than the wonderful mapimage applet?
I'm thinking of a measuring tool that could be used to make a
rudimentary ruler, where a user could click from
point-to-point-to-point, drawing a line and getting an indication of the
length of the line that was drawn.
The maps I render are typically only in the "town/neighborhood" range,
and I can't speak to great-circles, projections vs decimal degrees, etc.
But I would think that a map that has a given extent would have some
sort of distance per pixel value that could be calculated and applied to
a line drawing tool. Specifically, I'd like to be able to offer the user
the ability to get an Ad-Hoc distance estimate when viewing a
neighborhood by "tracing" a line over the streets they're viewing and
figure out how many linear feet (meters/yards) were traveled: as opposed
to "as the crow flies" straight line distances.
Any Java-wise users out there that have explored this kind of
functionality?
Thanks,
Kieran



From SDunning at nephrology.org  Mon Aug 13 09:39:20 2001
From: SDunning at nephrology.org (Stephan Dunning)
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:39:20 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] small gmap bug?
Message-ID: <DF28BB4099A7D311BB3500508B63B7751A1620@mail.nephrology.org>

I could be wrong or this may have already been discovered, but I think I
found a slight bug in the gmap75.php file that affects the zoom and query
rectangles.

The GMap75CheckClick() function includes the following code:

			if ($oPixelRect->minx >  $oPixelRect->maxx)
			{
                            // Use intval() to avoid dfTmp becoming a
reference
                            // to $oPixelRect->minx with PHP4 !?!?!?
			    $dfTmp = intval($oPixelRect->minx);
			    $oPixelRect->set("minx",$oPixelRect->maxx);
			    $oPixelRect->set("maxx",$dfTmp);
			}
			if ($oPixelRect->miny <  $oPixelRect->maxy)
			{
			    $dfTmp = intval($oPixelRect->miny);
			    $oPixelRect->set("miny", $oPixelRect->maxy);
			    $oPixelRect->set("maxy", $dfTmp);
			}
		    }

Should -
	"if ($oPixelRect->miny <  $oPixelRect->maxy)"
be -
	"if ($oPixelRect->miny >  $oPixelRect->maxy)" instead?

Thanks,
Stephan


From chuynh at ideorlando.org  Mon Aug 13 10:09:53 2001
From: chuynh at ideorlando.org (Chan B. Huynh)
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 13:09:53 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] FW: Need direction for enhancing Mapserver
In-Reply-To: <001401c121a9$e91df9d0$d9c9ed81@life.ku.edu>
Message-ID: <KCEJLLAIGOFFEIFJJOCIOEEDCAAA.chuynh@ideorlando.org>

somehow i cannot get the specified page.
I tried http://alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu
the page said has moved to http://www.alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu

did try
http://www.alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu/~gjanee/gazettr/specification.html
no luck!

-chan

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
[mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu]On Behalf Of Dave
Vieglais
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 10:37 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] FW: Need direction for enhancing
Mapserver


Take a look at

http://alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu/~gjanee/gazettr/specification.html

for an ADL's spec for a gazetteer service.  I'm not sure if they have
actually implemented it though (at least not publicly).

Dave V.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>[mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu] On Behalf Of
>Rob Atkinson
>Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 9:15 PM
>To: Dan_Stevens at stricom.army.mil
>Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu; Chan_Huynh at stricom.army.mil
>Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] FW: Need direction for
>enhancing Mapserver
>
>
>
>You need a "gazetteer service" - do you build it internally
>(stovepipe) or do you link to network
>addressable services. I'm working up a spec for the OpenGIS
>consortium for this service, and looking
>for sponsors for an implementation pilot.
>
>Q: Do want you implement mapserver as a gazetteer (possible)
>or link to other database services
>(more likely)?
>
>Regards
>
>Rob Atkinson
>
>Dan_Stevens at stricom.army.mil wrote:
>
>> on the GUI side, and can already use the mapserver to query
>her world map
>> to get the coordinates for a requested area, but the user
>must manually
>> enter the text lat/long to actually retrieve the data, a
>process that is
>> both "user unfriendly" and error prone.
>
>



From vieglais at ku.edu  Mon Aug 13 10:18:47 2001
From: vieglais at ku.edu (Dave Vieglais)
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:18:47 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] FW: Need direction for enhancing Mapserver
In-Reply-To: <KCEJLLAIGOFFEIFJJOCIOEEDCAAA.chuynh@ideorlando.org>
Message-ID: <000601c1241c$036c06a0$d9c9ed81@life.ku.edu>

My appologies.  The correct URL is:

http://alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu/~gjanee/gazetteer/specification.html

sorry for the typos.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chan B. Huynh [mailto:chuynh at ideorlando.org] 
>Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 12:10 PM
>To: Dave Vieglais; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] FW: Need direction for 
>enhancing Mapserver
>
>
>somehow i cannot get the specified page.
>I tried http://alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu
>the page said has moved to http://www.alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu
>
>did try
>http://www.alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu/~gjanee/gazettr/specification.html
>no luck!
>
>-chan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>[mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu]On Behalf Of Dave
>Vieglais
>Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 10:37 AM
>To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] FW: Need direction for enhancing
>Mapserver
>
>
>Take a look at
>
>http://alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu/~gjanee/gazettr/specification.html
>
>for an ADL's spec for a gazetteer service.  I'm not sure if they have
>actually implemented it though (at least not publicly).
>
>Dave V.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>>[mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu] On Behalf Of
>>Rob Atkinson
>>Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 9:15 PM
>>To: Dan_Stevens at stricom.army.mil
>>Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu; Chan_Huynh at stricom.army.mil
>>Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] FW: Need direction for
>>enhancing Mapserver
>>
>>
>>
>>You need a "gazetteer service" - do you build it internally
>>(stovepipe) or do you link to network
>>addressable services. I'm working up a spec for the OpenGIS
>>consortium for this service, and looking
>>for sponsors for an implementation pilot.
>>
>>Q: Do want you implement mapserver as a gazetteer (possible)
>>or link to other database services
>>(more likely)?
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>Rob Atkinson
>>
>>Dan_Stevens at stricom.army.mil wrote:
>>
>>> on the GUI side, and can already use the mapserver to query
>>her world map
>>> to get the coordinates for a requested area, but the user
>>must manually
>>> enter the text lat/long to actually retrieve the data, a
>>process that is
>>> both "user unfriendly" and error prone.
>>
>>
>



From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Mon Aug 13 10:26:39 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:26:39 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Fwd: Help connect data base for MySql and Module PHP
Message-ID: <sb77c790.097@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

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From Jciavarelli at city.kamloops.bc.ca  Mon Aug 13 11:45:02 2001
From: Jciavarelli at city.kamloops.bc.ca (Janet Ciavarelli)
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:45:02 -0700
Subject: [mapserver-users] Java Applet Development
Message-ID: <sb77bdcc.050@ns105s.kamloops.city>

Is the Rosa applet only available in the PHP environment? 

>>> Daniel Morissette <morissette at dmsolutions.ca> 08/13/01 07:29AM >>>
Kieran,

The ROSA applet can do exactly that... see section "4 - distance
measurement tool" in the ROSA docs at
http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/webtools/rosa/rosa_params.html 

You can see an example of it in use in Environment Canada's species at
risk application at
http://www.sis.ec.gc.ca/msapps/ec_species/htdocs/ec_species_e.phtml 

The measured distance is displayed in the status bar of the browser
window... no need to say that the distance is only approximative due to
the projection issues that you mentioned.

Best Regards,

Daniel


"Kieran J. Ames" wrote:
> 
> Are there any users/developers who have played with a Java interface to
> MapServer data, other than the wonderful mapimage applet?
> I'm thinking of a measuring tool that could be used to make a
> rudimentary ruler, where a user could click from
> point-to-point-to-point, drawing a line and getting an indication of the
> length of the line that was drawn.
> The maps I render are typically only in the "town/neighborhood" range,
> and I can't speak to great-circles, projections vs decimal degrees, etc.
> But I would think that a map that has a given extent would have some
> sort of distance per pixel value that could be calculated and applied to
> a line drawing tool. Specifically, I'd like to be able to offer the user
> the ability to get an Ad-Hoc distance estimate when viewing a
> neighborhood by "tracing" a line over the streets they're viewing and
> figure out how many linear feet (meters/yards) were traveled: as opposed
> to "as the crow flies" straight line distances.
> Any Java-wise users out there that have explored this kind of
> functionality?
> Thanks,
> Kieran




From polt at snaptek.com  Mon Aug 13 12:03:01 2001
From: polt at snaptek.com (Jason Poulter)
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:03:01 -0700
Subject: [mapserver-users] (no subject)
Message-ID: <3B782464.8AE673F8@snaptek.com>

unsubscribe mapserver-users polt at snaptek.com





From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Mon Aug 13 12:13:04 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 15:13:04 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Java Applet Development
References: <sb77bdcc.050@ns105s.kamloops.city>
Message-ID: <3B7826C0.C6B9B474@dmsolutions.ca>

Janet Ciavarelli wrote:
> 
> Is the Rosa applet only available in the PHP environment?
> 

It is easier to control the values of the parameters if you use a
scripting environment... either PHP, Perl, or any other web scripting
language that emits HTML will do.

The ROSA applet was not designed to work together with the mapserv CGI
program, but I know of at least one user (Tim Mackey from AGSO) who made
a small change to the mapserv CGI and got it to work with ROSA.  See the
following message from the archive for all the details:
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/majordom_lists/archives/mapserver-users/html/0011/msg00077.html

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.



From zhox at yeah.net  Mon Aug 13 17:14:48 2001
From: zhox at yeah.net (Zhou Xu)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 8:14:48 +0800
Subject: [mapserver-users] truetype support for 3.5 win binaries?
Message-ID: <20010814002638.6093B1CBDB893@smtp.yeah.net>

I find the same error message, but when I give the full path of the font file, I succeeded.
Maybe this can help.

On 2001-8-13 10:17:00, you wrote:
>Is there any win binary for ms 3.5 that has truetype support built in? The
>readme file says
> 'compiled with this distribution are:
>  PNG, JPEG, TIFF/GeoTIFF, Proj4, Freetype 2.'
>
>but when I configure labels to use truetype I get the following error
>message:
>
>'msGetLabelSize(): TrueType Font error. libgd was not built with TrueType
>font support'.
>
>I used the gif version (the readme file is probably the same for png and
>gif). The php enabled version from dm solutions offers tt support but the
>result of the output is a bit poor, no comparison to the good quality from
>the ms 3.4.
>
>I dont't have a clue, is it necessary to install Freetype additionally?
>
>Thanks for any help
>
>Armin
>
>--
>Armin Burger
>Territorium Online
>Siemensstrasse/Via Siemens 19 - 39100 Bozen/Bolzano - Italia
>_



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From clip at idirect.com  Mon Aug 13 19:00:46 2001
From: clip at idirect.com (clip)
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 22:00:46 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Does Windows binary with OGR use PHP?
Message-ID: <3B78864E.2B5A8873@idirect.com>

Does the Windows binary version of Mapserver cgi require PHP?



From mapserver at cubok.com  Mon Aug 13 19:05:52 2001
From: mapserver at cubok.com (Richard Ford)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:05:52 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Shapefiles
Message-ID: <00e801c12465$a62b58c0$01bca8c0@Peach>

G'Day All,

Ok, I have been experimenting with Mapserver and I have a moderate grasp on
the various files and configuration system.  Not good enough to make a
polished site - but good enough to test appropriateness of technology.  :)

Now I have a whole heap of shapefiles make in ESRI ArcView.

How do I load them!  :)

I have made my own .map files and templates - heavily based on the MS_DEMO
download.

I have the shapefiles ready and shapepath set.

Do I need to have the exact type set like raster, line, polygon, etc...  As
I have tried various shapefiles and colour options and all I get is a blank
square were I was expecting some sort of image?

***********************************************************

#
# Start of map file
#
NAME LANCE
STATUS ON
SIZE 1200 1200
#SHADESET symbols/shade.sym
#MARKERSET symbols/marker.sym
#LINESET symbols/line.sym
EXTENT 388107.634400379 5203120.88405952 500896.339019834 5310243.30613897
#UNITS METERS
SHAPEPATH "/usr/local/apache/htdcos/lance/risk_data"
#IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255

#
# Start of web interface definition
#
WEB
  HEADER demo_header.html
  TEMPLATE demo.html
  FOOTER demo_footer.html
  MINSCALE 1000
  MAXSCALE 1550000
  IMAGEPATH "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/tmp/"
  IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
  # LOG "demo.log"
END

QUERYMAP
  SIZE 200 200
  STATUS ON
  STYLE HILITE
  COLOR 255 0 0
END

#
# Start of reference map
#
#REFERENCE
#  IMAGE graphics/reference.tif
#  EXTENT 393234.393701263 5205405.16440722 495769.579718949
5307959.02579127
#  SIZE 120 120
#  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 255 255 255
    SIZE tiny
  END
  STYLE 1
  SIZE 50 2
  COLOR 255 255 255
  UNITS MILES
  INTERVALS 1
  TRANSPARENT TRUE
  STATUS TRUE
END

#
# Start of layer definitions
#

##################################
LAYER
  NAME "test"
  TYPE RASTER
  STATUS DEFAULT
  DATA disslv1

  CLASS
 COLOR 250 140 250
  END

END
####################################

END # Map File

*************************************************

disslv1 is a shapefile (well the 3 files, .shp, .shx, .dbf) and nothing
loads?

I even changed the data to a known shapefile in the ms_demo directory and
copied the same layer definition and I still got a blank box (But always
with a working navigation system).

Demo_init.html is set to load 'test' as a default layer....  clicking on the
"re-display/query button still shows an empty square?

I will not be meeting the creator of the shapefiles until Friday and I guess
I will need more info about what is inside them to be able to define a layer
to display them?  I guess what I really wanted to do was to have a working
system - though that just shows a basic map with 1 layer so he can see it.
Proof of technology - to prove that mapserver is what we want to use and not
ArcIMS - urghhh!.

Many Thanks as I find my feet..... GIS expert - I am not.  :)


Richard Ford.
richard at cubok.com   www.cubok.com

The views expressed here are solely my own and do not necessarily represent
those of my employer.




From v at w.cl  Mon Aug 13 21:32:14 2001
From: v at w.cl (Vinko Vrsalovic B.)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:32:14 -0400 (CLT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] Does Windows binary with OGR use PHP?
In-Reply-To: <3B78864E.2B5A8873@idirect.com> from "clip" at Aug 13, 2001 10:00:46 PM
Message-ID: <200108140432.f7E4WEf08024@antonia.nn.cl>

> 
> Does the Windows binary version of Mapserver cgi require PHP?
> 

Nope.

-- 
V. <v at w.cl>


From v at w.cl  Mon Aug 13 21:43:34 2001
From: v at w.cl (Vinko Vrsalovic B.)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:43:34 -0400 (CLT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] Shapefiles
In-Reply-To: <00e801c12465$a62b58c0$01bca8c0@Peach> from "Richard Ford" at Aug 14, 2001 12:05:52 PM
Message-ID: <200108140443.f7E4hYw08115@antonia.nn.cl>


> #MARKERSET symbols/marker.sym
> #LINESET symbols/line.sym

You should set the SYMBOL parameter as shown in the docs.

(concatenate the three .sym files in one and set that file as
the SYMBOL parameter)

> EXTENT 388107.634400379 5203120.88405952 500896.339019834 5310243.30613897

Is this extent correct?, you can use the perl script showextent.pl on
the shape file to see if it is.

(ie, perl showextent.pl shapefile on the directory where the shapefile is)

> #UNITS METERS

Why not set the units?

> SHAPEPATH "/usr/local/apache/htdcos/lance/risk_data"

Are this directory and its contents readable by the web server?

> LAYER
>   NAME "test"
>   TYPE RASTER

is the shapefile of raster type?!?!?

>   STATUS DEFAULT
>   DATA disslv1
 
disslv1.* should be in the shapepath directory

> I even changed the data to a known shapefile in the ms_demo directory and
> copied the same layer definition and I still got a blank box (But always
> with a working navigation system).
 
When I first started with Mapserver I got the same problem, it turned
out to be the extent badly set.

> I will not be meeting the creator of the shapefiles until Friday and I guess
> I will need more info about what is inside them to be able to define a layer
> to display them?  I guess what I really wanted to do was to have a working

You can open the shapfile with ArcView, press the info button (the 'i' rounded
by a circle) and click on a symbol of the view and you'll see what is the type 
of the shapefile (polygon, polyline (it should be set as a polygon layer in the
mapfile) or line)

HTH,
-- 
V. <v at w.cl>


From mapserver at cubok.com  Mon Aug 13 22:11:46 2001
From: mapserver at cubok.com (Richard Ford)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:11:46 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Shapefiles
References: <200108140443.f7E4hYw08115@antonia.nn.cl>
Message-ID: <028201c1247f$9eba2390$01bca8c0@Peach>

> > #MARKERSET symbols/marker.sym
> > #LINESET symbols/line.sym
>
> You should set the SYMBOL parameter as shown in the docs.

Quickly - what do they do?

I thought leave otu what I do not know to minimise problems.  I was
following the tutorial linked to from the mapserver documentaton page.

> (concatenate the three .sym files in one and set that file as
> the SYMBOL parameter)
>
> > EXTENT 388107.634400379 5203120.88405952 500896.339019834
5310243.30613897
>
> Is this extent correct?, you can use the perl script showextent.pl on
> the shape file to see if it is.
>
> (ie, perl showextent.pl shapefile on the directory where the shapefile is)

I will try this!

> > #UNITS METERS
>
> Why not set the units?

Again - keep it simple just to 'see' it load a shapefile.

> > SHAPEPATH "/usr/local/apache/htdcos/lance/risk_data"
>
> Are this directory and its contents readable by the web server?

yup and all permissions/owenrships are correct for r,w and x.

> > LAYER
> >   NAME "test"
> >   TYPE RASTER
>
> is the shapefile of raster type?!?!?

I assumed it was a raster.  It did not load with polygon - but with raster
the computer churned a bit - but still no display.  I will be able to get
ArcView installed on friday and then see what it is as you say below.

> >   STATUS DEFAULT
> >   DATA disslv1
>
> disslv1.* should be in the shapepath directory

Yup.  All 3 associated files.

> > I even changed the data to a known shapefile in the ms_demo directory
and
> > copied the same layer definition and I still got a blank box (But always
> > with a working navigation system).
>
> When I first started with Mapserver I got the same problem, it turned
> out to be the extent badly set.

I will try that perl script.  I thought if it is wrong, worst case I would
have a truncated image - or a very small image surrounded by white?  Or is
my understanding of the EXTENT parameter incorrect?

> > I will not be meeting the creator of the shapefiles until Friday and I
guess
> > I will need more info about what is inside them to be able to define a
layer
> > to display them?  I guess what I really wanted to do was to have a
working
>
> You can open the shapfile with ArcView, press the info button (the 'i'
rounded
> by a circle) and click on a symbol of the view and you'll see what is the
type
> of the shapefile (polygon, polyline (it should be set as a polygon layer
in the
> mapfile) or line)

As said I will do this.  There are so many GIS packages out there, open
source and not.  And it has been a steep learnign curve GIS wise.  And we
are keen to get our projetc moving.  As such - it always pleases people to
see progress.  And at thsi early stage - great progress and a verification
of our possible choice in MapServer - would be a display of "some kind!" a
shapefile by it.  :)

Thanks for the input.

Cheers,
Richard.



From mapserver at cubok.com  Tue Aug 14 01:00:46 2001
From: mapserver at cubok.com (Richard Ford)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 18:00:46 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Shapefiles
References: <200108140443.f7E4hYw08115@antonia.nn.cl>
Message-ID: <02f501c12497$3ab2c2e0$01bca8c0@Peach>

> > EXTENT 388107.634400379 5203120.88405952 500896.339019834
5310243.30613897
>
> Is this extent correct?, you can use the perl script showextent.pl on
> the shape file to see if it is.
>
> (ie, perl showextent.pl shapefile on the directory where the shapefile is)

*************************************************************************
[root at localhost risk_data]# perl showextent.pl disslv1.shp
Can't locate mapscript.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at showextent.pl line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at showextent.pl line 3.
**************************************************************************

I take it, I need to install Map script?  I am using Mapserver 3.3.011

Cheers,
Richard.






From armin.burger at territoriumonline.com  Tue Aug 14 01:23:15 2001
From: armin.burger at territoriumonline.com (Armin Burger)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 10:23:15 +0200
Subject: [mapserver-users] truetype support for 3.5 win binaries?
Message-ID: <200108140823.KAA21776@efferd.nettz.com>

I tried this with the path in the fontset file (with both slashes and
backslashes) but I still got the same message. If the font cannot be found
you get messages more like
'msGetLabelSize(): TrueType Font error. Could not find/open font '

With the php version of Mapserver the results were better using antialias.
They were then identical with ms 3.4 and antialias. But the best results
were still with 3.4 without antialiasing. The fonts were then produced only
as one pixel thin lines. You could not distinguish them from the characters
in the normal html text.

armin


> I find the same error message, but when I give the full path of the font
> file, I succeeded.
> Maybe this can help.

> On 2001-8-13 10:17:00, you wrote:
>>Is there any win binary for ms 3.5 that has truetype support built in? The
>>readme file says
>> 'compiled with this distribution are:
>>  PNG, JPEG, TIFF/GeoTIFF, Proj4, Freetype 2.'
>>
>>but when I configure labels to use truetype I get the following error
>>message:
>>
>>'msGetLabelSize(): TrueType Font error. libgd was not built with TrueType
>>font support'.
>>
>>I used the gif version (the readme file is probably the same for png and
>>gif). The php enabled version from dm solutions offers tt support but the
>>result of the output is a bit poor, no comparison to the good quality from
>>the ms 3.4.
>>
>>I dont't have a clue, is it necessary to install Freetype additionally?
>>
>>Thanks for any help
>>
>>Armin
>>
>>--
>>Armin Burger
>>Territorium Online
>>Siemensstrasse/Via Siemens 19 - 39100 Bozen/Bolzano - Italia
>>_



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From mapserver at hotmail.com  Tue Aug 14 04:40:23 2001
From: mapserver at hotmail.com (=?iso-8859-1?B?RGllZ28gSm9z6SBQYWRy824=?=)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 11:40:23 +0000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Help connect data base for Mysql using PHP
Message-ID: <F1418N8yxdZjfNLnlyg0000706c@hotmail.com>

Hello

My name is Diego Padron I am student of the School of Geography of the
University of The Andes in Venezuela and at the moment I am trying to use 
the mapserver like tool for the development of a servant of maps.

I need help regarding as connecting mapserver to a database in MySQL. with 
the purpose of negotiating it in a remote way..

Thank you for the help.

Diego Padron
Universidad de Los Andes
Merida - Venezuela.



_________________________________________________________________
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From jef.mony at free.fr  Tue Aug 14 05:00:03 2001
From: jef.mony at free.fr (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-Fran=E7ois_MONY?=)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 14:00:03 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: [mapserver-users] compilation
Message-ID: <997790403.3b7912c336924@imp.free.fr>

Hi,

After some works the error message change.

When I try to compile the CVS version of mpaserver using ./configure --with-gd -
-with-tiff --with-jpeg --without-ttf --with-php=/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/php4.0.4pl1 -
-with-apx (wich was good with mapserver 4)

I have this message :
configure: error: ./configure: --with-php=/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/php4.0.4pl1 : 
invalid option; use --help

An idea ??

Thanks

Jean-Fran?ois MONY - jef.mony at free.fr
Parc naturel r?gional de Lorraine
Responsable informatique/SIG
tel : 03-83-84-06-37
fax : 03-81-33-60
D?tach? aupr?s du laboratoire de phyto?cologie de l'universit? de Metz
tel : 03-87-37-84-05
fax : 


From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Tue Aug 14 05:26:41 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 07:26:41 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Zoom-out using Mapplet rubber-band box
	on Reference Map Image
Message-ID: <sb78d2d2.009@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

Yes, just treat it like a second map on the page. That is, use a second form. The imgext is always the same and you use imgbox just as you would in your main map. The mapplet_apply method passes out the name of the applet it was invoked from so you can have multiple instances of the mapplet on one page, you just need to detect whether you're coming from the main image or the reference image and adjust the right form's imgbox and imgxy values accordingly.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

Minnesota DNR
500 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155
651-297-2937
>>> clip <clip at idirect.com> 08/12/01 12:50 PM >>>
Is it possible to use the rubber-band zoom-box function of the "mapplet"
java applet, on a reference map to "zoom-out".  I'd like to be able to
do this after users have zoomed-in and then want to zoom-out to a
different area and extent on the reference map, rather then force them
to return to the initial map extent and begin all over to zoom-in on the
new area they are interested in.

Tom Cadman
Planner
Regional Municipality of Durham




From jsmedsmo at gis.umn.edu  Tue Aug 14 06:17:08 2001
From: jsmedsmo at gis.umn.edu (Jamie Smedsmo)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 08:17:08 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] [Fwd: FAQ]
Message-ID: <3B7924D4.7432CF81@gis.umn.edu>

Hi All,

I'll add this to the FAQ if one of you tells me the answer.

Thanks,
Jamie

> Sujitra Thongjab wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ms_demo.zip
> 
>     2.4 Common Error Messages
> 
> Pointing a browser at http://host/ms_demo/demo_init.html and slapping
> the 'initialize' button yields:
> 
> Q: when i did all step untill 2.4 .After i pressed initialize button,
> download pop-up window appeared, i dont' know what wrong??
> 
> i will so much appreciate if you reply my mail , thank you
> 
> Sinserely yours,
> 
> sujitra thongjab
> 
>


From CurnewS at DFO-MPO.GC.CA  Tue Aug 14 07:28:17 2001
From: CurnewS at DFO-MPO.GC.CA (CurnewS at DFO-MPO.GC.CA)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 10:28:17 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] no GIF
Message-ID: <BCFB88F56191D4119AE500508B6DD67545C53E@MSGNFLSS01>

I've just recently installed Mapserver ver. 3.5 with OGR and GIF support.  I
have also tried to install the demo for ver. 3.4 and 3.5.  I have the new
symbol file and have edited the appropriate files according to the
readmes(see below).  I am running Win NT 4.0 Server with Service Pack 6a and
IIS 4.0.

When I initialize the demo I get the Mapserver interface with a black
screen.  In the demo.map I have all the layers turned on.  The GIF is not
even generated in the "tmp" directory.  

I have included the demo_init.html, demo.html, and demo.map files.  If
anyone could help me with this it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Shannon


--------------------
demo.map
--------------------

#
# Start of map file
#
NAME DEMO
STATUS ON
SIZE 600 600
EXTENT 388107.634400379 5203120.88405952 500896.339019834 5310243.30613897
UNITS METERS
SHAPEPATH "d:\inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\data\"
IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
SYMBOLSET "d:\inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\symbols\symbols34.sym"
#IMAGETYPE PNG

#
# Projection definition, consult the PROJ.4 documentation for parameter
discussion
#
#PROJECTION
#  "proj=utm"
#  "ellps=GRS80"
#  "zone=15"
#  "north"
#  "no_defs"
#END

#
# Start of web interface definition
#
WEB
  HEADER demo_header.html
  TEMPLATE demo.html
  FOOTER demo_footer.html
  MINSCALE 1000
  MAXSCALE 1550000
  IMAGEPATH "d:\inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\tmp"
  IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
  # LOG "demo.log"
END

QUERYMAP
  SIZE 200 200
  STATUS ON
  STYLE HILITE
  COLOR 255 0 0
END

#
# Start of reference map
#
REFERENCE
  IMAGE graphics/reference.gif
  EXTENT 393234.393701263 5205405.16440722 495769.579718949 5307959.02579127
  SIZE 120 120
  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 255 255 255
    SIZE tiny    
  END
  STYLE 1
  SIZE 50 2
  COLOR 255 255 255
  UNITS MILES
  INTERVALS 1
  TRANSPARENT TRUE
  STATUS TRUE
END

#
# Start of symbol definitions (we're only using a few)
#
SYMBOL
  NAME 'circle'
  TYPE ELLIPSE
  POINTS 1 1 END
  FILLED
END

#
# Start of layer definitions
#

LAYER
  NAME county
  TYPE POLYGON
  STATUS DEFAULT
  DATA ctybdpy2
  CLASSITEM 'cty_name'
  CLASS
    EXPRESSION 'Itasca'
    OUTLINECOLOR 128 128 128
    COLOR 225 225 185
  END
  CLASS # every other county in the state
    EXPRESSION /./ 
    OUTLINECOLOR 128 128 128
    COLOR 255 255 255
  END
END

LAYER
  NAME cities
  TYPE POLYGON
  DATA mcd90py2
  STATUS ON
  CLASSITEM city_name	
  CLASS
    NAME "Cities & Towns"
    EXPRESSION /./
    COLOR 255 225 90
  END
END

LAYER
  NAME townships
  TYPE POLYLINE
  DATA twprgpy3
  STATUS ON
  CLASS
    SYMBOL 'circle'
    SIZE 2
    NAME 'Townships'
    COLOR 181 181 145
  END
END

LAYER
  NAME lakes
  TYPE POLYGON
  STATUS ON
  DATA lakespy2

  CLASS
    NAME 'Lakes & Rivers'
    TEMPLATE "lakespy2.html"
    COLOR 49 117 185  
  END

  HEADER "lakespy2_header.html"
  FOOTER "lakespy2_footer.html"
  
  TOLERANCE 3
END # lakes

LAYER
  NAME streams
  TYPE LINE
  STATUS ON
  DATA dlgstln2

  CLASS
    NAME "Streams"
    TEMPLATE "dlgstln2.html"    
    COLOR 49 117 185
  END

  HEADER "dlgstln2_header.html"
  FOOTER "dlgstln2_footer.html"

  TOLERANCE 5
END # streams

LAYER
  NAME roads
  MAXSCALE 300000
  STATUS ON
  DATA ctyrdln3
  TYPE LINE
  CLASS
    COLOR 0 0 0
  END
END # county roads

LAYER
  NAME roads
  MAXSCALE 300000
  STATUS ON
  DATA ctyrdln3
  TYPE ANNOTATION
  LABELITEM "road_name"
  CLASS
    COLOR 255 255 255
    SYMBOL 'symbols/images/ctyhwy.gif'    
    LABEL
      MINFEATURESIZE 40
      MINDISTANCE 150
      POSITION CC
      SIZE TINY
      COLOR 0 0 0
    END
  END
END # county road annotation

LAYER
  NAME roads
  MAXSCALE 600000
  STATUS ON
  DATA majrdln3
  TYPE LINE
  CLASS
    NAME "Roads"
    COLOR 0 0 0
  END
END # highways

LAYER
  NAME roads
  MAXSCALE 600000
  STATUS ON
  DATA majrdln3
  TYPE ANNOTATION
  LABELITEM "road_num"  
  CLASSITEM "road_class"
  CLASS
    EXPRESSION "3"
    COLOR 0 0 0 # dummy color
    SYMBOL 'symbols/images/sthwy.gif'
    LABEL
      MINFEATURESIZE 50
      MINDISTANCE 150
      POSITION CC
      SIZE TINY
      COLOR 0 0 0
    END
  END
  CLASS
    EXPRESSION "2" 
    COLOR 0 0 0 # dummy color
    SYMBOL 'symbols/images/ushwy.gif'
    LABEL
      MINFEATURESIZE 50
      MINDISTANCE 150
      POSITION CC
      SIZE TINY
      COLOR 0 0 0
    END
  END
  CLASS
    EXPRESSION "1" 
    COLOR 0 0 0 # dummy color
    SYMBOL 'symbols/images/interstate.gif'
    LABEL
      MINFEATURESIZE 50
      MINDISTANCE 150
      POSITION CC
      SIZE TINY
      COLOR 255 255 255
    END
  END
END # highway annotation

LAYER
  NAME cities
  TYPE ANNOTATION
  DATA mcd90py2
  STATUS ON
  LABELITEM "city_name"
  CLASSITEM "city_name"
  LABELMAXSCALE 500000
  CLASS
    EXPRESSION /./
    COLOR -1 -1 -1
    LABEL
      COLOR 0 0 0
      SHADOWCOLOR 218 218 218
      SHADOWSIZE 2 2
      TYPE BITMAP
      SIZE MEDIUM
      POSITION CC
      PARTIALS FALSE
      BUFFER 2
    END
  END
END

END


------------------------
demo_init.html
------------------------

<html>
<head><title>MapServer Demo Interface</title></head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

<center><h2>MapServer Demo Interface</h2></center>
<p><hr><p>
Click on the initialize button to fire up the demo with 3 layers turned on
will be accessible for browsing. The
data are of Itasca County, MN and were derived, for the most part, from USGS
1:24,000 quadrangles. Some things to note are:

<form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe">

<input type="hidden" name="map" value="d:\inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\demo.map">
<input type="hidden" name="layer" value="lakes">
<input type="hidden" name="layer" value="streams">
<input type="hidden" name="zoomsize" value=2>

<center><input type="submit" value="Initialize"></center>

</form>

<p><hr><p>

</body></html>


---------------------
demo.html
---------------------

<html>
<head><title>MapServer Demo Interface</title></head>
<body bgcolor=#FFFFFF>

<center><h1>MapServer Demo Interface</h1></center>
<hr>
<form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe">

<center>
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=4 bgcolor="#000000">
<tr>
<td valign="top" align=center>
  <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
    <tr><td colspan="2"><INPUT NAME="img" TYPE="image" SRC="[img]" width=600
height=600 border=0></td></tr>
    <tr>
      <td>&nbsp;<font size=-1 face="arial,helvetica"
color="#FFFFFF"><b>Powered by MapServer</b></font></td>
      <td align="right"><img src="[scalebar]"></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</td>
<td valign="top" bgcolor=#ffffff>
  <table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="#ffffff">
    <tr><td>
      <center><input type="submit" value="Refresh/Query"></center>
      <p>

      <input type="radio" name="mode" value="browse" checked> <b>Browse
map</b><br>
      <input type="radio" name="mode" value="query"> <b>Query
feature</b><br>
      <input type="radio" name="mode" value="nquery"> <b>Query multiple
features</b>

      <hr>

      <p>
      <b>Select Layers to Display: </b><br>
      <select multiple name="layer" size=3>
        <option value="cities" [cities_select]> Cities
        <option value="lakes" [lakes_select]> Lakes & Rivers
        <option value="streams" [streams_select]> Streams
        <option value="roads" [roads_select]> Roads
        <option value="townships" [townships_select]> Townships
      </select>

      <p>
      Zoom In <input type=radio name=zoomdir value=1 [zoomdir_1_check]> 
      Pan <input type=radio name=zoomdir value=0 [zoomdir_0_check]>
      Zoom Out <input type=radio name=zoomdir value=-1 [zoomdir_-1_check]>
      <p>
      Zoom Size <input type=text name=zoomsize size=4 value=[zoomsize]>
      <p>

      <font size=+1><b>Legend</b></font><br><hr>
      <img src="[legend]"><hr>

      <p>
      <center><INPUT NAME="ref" TYPE="image" SRC="[ref]"
border="0"></center>
    </td></tr></table>

  </td></tr>
</table>
</center>

<input type="hidden" name="imgxy" value="299.5 299.5">
<input type="hidden" name="imgext" value="[mapext]">
<input type="hidden" name="map" value="[map]">
<input type="hidden" name="savequery" value="true">
<input type="hidden" name="mapext" value="shapes">

</form>

<p><hr><p>

</body></html>



From pnaciona at gis.umn.edu  Tue Aug 14 07:56:31 2001
From: pnaciona at gis.umn.edu (Pericles S. Nacionales)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 09:56:31 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] no GIF
In-Reply-To: <BCFB88F56191D4119AE500508B6DD67545C53E@MSGNFLSS01>
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.21.0108140952090.1635658-100000@center.gis.umn.edu>

Try adding a another slash "\" on your IMAGEPATH path.

>   IMAGEPATH "d:\inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\tmp"

IMAGEPATH "d:\inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\tmp\"

Also make sure that your IMAGEURL is actually "/tmp/" and not
"/itasca/tmp/"

Good luck!
Perry Nacionales

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 CurnewS at DFO-MPO.GC.CA wrote:

> I've just recently installed Mapserver ver. 3.5 with OGR and GIF support.  I
> have also tried to install the demo for ver. 3.4 and 3.5.  I have the new
> symbol file and have edited the appropriate files according to the
> readmes(see below).  I am running Win NT 4.0 Server with Service Pack 6a and
> IIS 4.0.
> 
> When I initialize the demo I get the Mapserver interface with a black
> screen.  In the demo.map I have all the layers turned on.  The GIF is not
> even generated in the "tmp" directory.  
> 
> I have included the demo_init.html, demo.html, and demo.map files.  If
> anyone could help me with this it would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Shannon
> 
> 
> --------------------
> demo.map
> --------------------
> 
> #
> # Start of map file
> #
> NAME DEMO
> STATUS ON
> SIZE 600 600
> EXTENT 388107.634400379 5203120.88405952 500896.339019834 5310243.30613897
> UNITS METERS
> SHAPEPATH "d:\inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\data\"
> IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
> SYMBOLSET "d:\inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\symbols\symbols34.sym"
> #IMAGETYPE PNG
> 
> #
> # Projection definition, consult the PROJ.4 documentation for parameter
> discussion
> #
> #PROJECTION
> #  "proj=utm"
> #  "ellps=GRS80"
> #  "zone=15"
> #  "north"
> #  "no_defs"
> #END
> 
> #
> # Start of web interface definition
> #
> WEB
>   HEADER demo_header.html
>   TEMPLATE demo.html
>   FOOTER demo_footer.html
>   MINSCALE 1000
>   MAXSCALE 1550000
>   IMAGEPATH "d:\inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\tmp"
>   IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
>   # LOG "demo.log"
> END
> 
> QUERYMAP
>   SIZE 200 200
>   STATUS ON
>   STYLE HILITE
>   COLOR 255 0 0
> END
> 
> #
> # Start of reference map
> #
> REFERENCE
>   IMAGE graphics/reference.gif
>   EXTENT 393234.393701263 5205405.16440722 495769.579718949 5307959.02579127
>   SIZE 120 120
>   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 255 255 255
>     SIZE tiny    
>   END
>   STYLE 1
>   SIZE 50 2
>   COLOR 255 255 255
>   UNITS MILES
>   INTERVALS 1
>   TRANSPARENT TRUE
>   STATUS TRUE
> END
> 
> #
> # Start of symbol definitions (we're only using a few)
> #
> SYMBOL
>   NAME 'circle'
>   TYPE ELLIPSE
>   POINTS 1 1 END
>   FILLED
> END
> 
> #
> # Start of layer definitions
> #
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME county
>   TYPE POLYGON
>   STATUS DEFAULT
>   DATA ctybdpy2
>   CLASSITEM 'cty_name'
>   CLASS
>     EXPRESSION 'Itasca'
>     OUTLINECOLOR 128 128 128
>     COLOR 225 225 185
>   END
>   CLASS # every other county in the state
>     EXPRESSION /./ 
>     OUTLINECOLOR 128 128 128
>     COLOR 255 255 255
>   END
> END
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME cities
>   TYPE POLYGON
>   DATA mcd90py2
>   STATUS ON
>   CLASSITEM city_name	
>   CLASS
>     NAME "Cities & Towns"
>     EXPRESSION /./
>     COLOR 255 225 90
>   END
> END
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME townships
>   TYPE POLYLINE
>   DATA twprgpy3
>   STATUS ON
>   CLASS
>     SYMBOL 'circle'
>     SIZE 2
>     NAME 'Townships'
>     COLOR 181 181 145
>   END
> END
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME lakes
>   TYPE POLYGON
>   STATUS ON
>   DATA lakespy2
> 
>   CLASS
>     NAME 'Lakes & Rivers'
>     TEMPLATE "lakespy2.html"
>     COLOR 49 117 185  
>   END
> 
>   HEADER "lakespy2_header.html"
>   FOOTER "lakespy2_footer.html"
>   
>   TOLERANCE 3
> END # lakes
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME streams
>   TYPE LINE
>   STATUS ON
>   DATA dlgstln2
> 
>   CLASS
>     NAME "Streams"
>     TEMPLATE "dlgstln2.html"    
>     COLOR 49 117 185
>   END
> 
>   HEADER "dlgstln2_header.html"
>   FOOTER "dlgstln2_footer.html"
> 
>   TOLERANCE 5
> END # streams
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME roads
>   MAXSCALE 300000
>   STATUS ON
>   DATA ctyrdln3
>   TYPE LINE
>   CLASS
>     COLOR 0 0 0
>   END
> END # county roads
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME roads
>   MAXSCALE 300000
>   STATUS ON
>   DATA ctyrdln3
>   TYPE ANNOTATION
>   LABELITEM "road_name"
>   CLASS
>     COLOR 255 255 255
>     SYMBOL 'symbols/images/ctyhwy.gif'    
>     LABEL
>       MINFEATURESIZE 40
>       MINDISTANCE 150
>       POSITION CC
>       SIZE TINY
>       COLOR 0 0 0
>     END
>   END
> END # county road annotation
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME roads
>   MAXSCALE 600000
>   STATUS ON
>   DATA majrdln3
>   TYPE LINE
>   CLASS
>     NAME "Roads"
>     COLOR 0 0 0
>   END
> END # highways
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME roads
>   MAXSCALE 600000
>   STATUS ON
>   DATA majrdln3
>   TYPE ANNOTATION
>   LABELITEM "road_num"  
>   CLASSITEM "road_class"
>   CLASS
>     EXPRESSION "3"
>     COLOR 0 0 0 # dummy color
>     SYMBOL 'symbols/images/sthwy.gif'
>     LABEL
>       MINFEATURESIZE 50
>       MINDISTANCE 150
>       POSITION CC
>       SIZE TINY
>       COLOR 0 0 0
>     END
>   END
>   CLASS
>     EXPRESSION "2" 
>     COLOR 0 0 0 # dummy color
>     SYMBOL 'symbols/images/ushwy.gif'
>     LABEL
>       MINFEATURESIZE 50
>       MINDISTANCE 150
>       POSITION CC
>       SIZE TINY
>       COLOR 0 0 0
>     END
>   END
>   CLASS
>     EXPRESSION "1" 
>     COLOR 0 0 0 # dummy color
>     SYMBOL 'symbols/images/interstate.gif'
>     LABEL
>       MINFEATURESIZE 50
>       MINDISTANCE 150
>       POSITION CC
>       SIZE TINY
>       COLOR 255 255 255
>     END
>   END
> END # highway annotation
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME cities
>   TYPE ANNOTATION
>   DATA mcd90py2
>   STATUS ON
>   LABELITEM "city_name"
>   CLASSITEM "city_name"
>   LABELMAXSCALE 500000
>   CLASS
>     EXPRESSION /./
>     COLOR -1 -1 -1
>     LABEL
>       COLOR 0 0 0
>       SHADOWCOLOR 218 218 218
>       SHADOWSIZE 2 2
>       TYPE BITMAP
>       SIZE MEDIUM
>       POSITION CC
>       PARTIALS FALSE
>       BUFFER 2
>     END
>   END
> END
> 
> END
> 
> 
> ------------------------
> demo_init.html
> ------------------------
> 
> <html>
> <head><title>MapServer Demo Interface</title></head>
> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
> 
> <center><h2>MapServer Demo Interface</h2></center>
> <p><hr><p>
> Click on the initialize button to fire up the demo with 3 layers turned on
> will be accessible for browsing. The
> data are of Itasca County, MN and were derived, for the most part, from USGS
> 1:24,000 quadrangles. Some things to note are:
> 
> <form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe">
> 
> <input type="hidden" name="map" value="d:\inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\demo.map">
> <input type="hidden" name="layer" value="lakes">
> <input type="hidden" name="layer" value="streams">
> <input type="hidden" name="zoomsize" value=2>
> 
> <center><input type="submit" value="Initialize"></center>
> 
> </form>
> 
> <p><hr><p>
> 
> </body></html>
> 
> 
> ---------------------
> demo.html
> ---------------------
> 
> <html>
> <head><title>MapServer Demo Interface</title></head>
> <body bgcolor=#FFFFFF>
> 
> <center><h1>MapServer Demo Interface</h1></center>
> <hr>
> <form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe">
> 
> <center>
> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=4 bgcolor="#000000">
> <tr>
> <td valign="top" align=center>
>   <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
>     <tr><td colspan="2"><INPUT NAME="img" TYPE="image" SRC="[img]" width=600
> height=600 border=0></td></tr>
>     <tr>
>       <td>&nbsp;<font size=-1 face="arial,helvetica"
> color="#FFFFFF"><b>Powered by MapServer</b></font></td>
>       <td align="right"><img src="[scalebar]"></td>
>     </tr>
>   </table>
> </td>
> <td valign="top" bgcolor=#ffffff>
>   <table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="#ffffff">
>     <tr><td>
>       <center><input type="submit" value="Refresh/Query"></center>
>       <p>
> 
>       <input type="radio" name="mode" value="browse" checked> <b>Browse
> map</b><br>
>       <input type="radio" name="mode" value="query"> <b>Query
> feature</b><br>
>       <input type="radio" name="mode" value="nquery"> <b>Query multiple
> features</b>
> 
>       <hr>
> 
>       <p>
>       <b>Select Layers to Display: </b><br>
>       <select multiple name="layer" size=3>
>         <option value="cities" [cities_select]> Cities
>         <option value="lakes" [lakes_select]> Lakes & Rivers
>         <option value="streams" [streams_select]> Streams
>         <option value="roads" [roads_select]> Roads
>         <option value="townships" [townships_select]> Townships
>       </select>
> 
>       <p>
>       Zoom In <input type=radio name=zoomdir value=1 [zoomdir_1_check]> 
>       Pan <input type=radio name=zoomdir value=0 [zoomdir_0_check]>
>       Zoom Out <input type=radio name=zoomdir value=-1 [zoomdir_-1_check]>
>       <p>
>       Zoom Size <input type=text name=zoomsize size=4 value=[zoomsize]>
>       <p>
> 
>       <font size=+1><b>Legend</b></font><br><hr>
>       <img src="[legend]"><hr>
> 
>       <p>
>       <center><INPUT NAME="ref" TYPE="image" SRC="[ref]"
> border="0"></center>
>     </td></tr></table>
> 
>   </td></tr>
> </table>
> </center>
> 
> <input type="hidden" name="imgxy" value="299.5 299.5">
> <input type="hidden" name="imgext" value="[mapext]">
> <input type="hidden" name="map" value="[map]">
> <input type="hidden" name="savequery" value="true">
> <input type="hidden" name="mapext" value="shapes">
> 
> </form>
> 
> <p><hr><p>
> 
> </body></html>
> 



From chuynh at ideorlando.org  Tue Aug 14 08:03:25 2001
From: chuynh at ideorlando.org (Chan B. Huynh)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 11:03:25 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] [Fwd: FAQ]
In-Reply-To: <3B7924D4.7432CF81@gis.umn.edu>
Message-ID: <KCEJLLAIGOFFEIFJJOCIEEEICAAA.chuynh@ideorlando.org>

I think I ran into this error before.  It's quite a while so I can't recall
what I did exactly to debug it.  But my understanding is that mapserv binary
is probably corrupted (due to network problem!?) so that when the form in
demo_init.html execute the line

<form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv">

It couldn't execute mapserv and instead it prompted up a download pop-up
dialog for downloading mapserv.

One option you can try is re-download mapserv binary and hopefully it'll
work.

-chan


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
[mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu]On Behalf Of Jamie
Smedsmo
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 9:17 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: [mapserver-users] [Fwd: FAQ]


Hi All,

I'll add this to the FAQ if one of you tells me the answer.

Thanks,
Jamie

> Sujitra Thongjab wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> ms_demo.zip
>
>     2.4 Common Error Messages
>
> Pointing a browser at http://host/ms_demo/demo_init.html and slapping
> the 'initialize' button yields:
>
> Q: when i did all step untill 2.4 .After i pressed initialize button,
> download pop-up window appeared, i dont' know what wrong??
>
> i will so much appreciate if you reply my mail , thank you
>
> Sinserely yours,
>
> sujitra thongjab
>
>



From david.fawcett at moea.state.mn.us  Tue Aug 14 08:17:40 2001
From: david.fawcett at moea.state.mn.us (Fawcett, David)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 10:17:40 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] [Fwd: FAQ]
Message-ID: <D63765C66C33D41182780008C784CB56736D99@pca-ex03.pca.state.mn.us>

>From your description, it is not clear to me when this error is occurring.

If you are using the Win32 binary, I see a potential problem in that when you call the binary, you need to use the name 'mapserv.exe'.

Try changing the line from:

> <form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv">
> 
To:

> <form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe">
> 
> 
> 
David J. Fawcett
GIS / Databases

MN Office of Environmental Assistance
520 Lafayette Rd N
St. Paul, MN 55155
651.215.0200


> ----------
> From: 	Chan B. Huynh[SMTP:chuynh at ideorlando.org]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, August 14, 2001 10:03 AM
> To: 	Jamie Smedsmo; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: 	RE: [mapserver-users] [Fwd: FAQ]
> 
> I think I ran into this error before.  It's quite a while so I can't recall
> what I did exactly to debug it.  But my understanding is that mapserv binary
> is probably corrupted (due to network problem!?) so that when the form in
> demo_init.html execute the line
> 
> <form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv">
> 
> It couldn't execute mapserv and instead it prompted up a download pop-up
> dialog for downloading mapserv.
> 
> One option you can try is re-download mapserv binary and hopefully it'll
> work.
> 
> -chan
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> [mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu]On Behalf Of Jamie
> Smedsmo
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 9:17 AM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: [mapserver-users] [Fwd: FAQ]
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I'll add this to the FAQ if one of you tells me the answer.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jamie
> 
> > Sujitra Thongjab wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ms_demo.zip
> >
> >     2.4 Common Error Messages
> >
> > Pointing a browser at http://host/ms_demo/demo_init.html and slapping
> > the 'initialize' button yields:
> >
> > Q: when i did all step untill 2.4 .After i pressed initialize button,
> > download pop-up window appeared, i dont' know what wrong??
> >
> > i will so much appreciate if you reply my mail , thank you
> >
> > Sinserely yours,
> >
> > sujitra thongjab
> >
> >
> 


From CurnewS at DFO-MPO.GC.CA  Tue Aug 14 08:45:13 2001
From: CurnewS at DFO-MPO.GC.CA (CurnewS at DFO-MPO.GC.CA)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 11:45:13 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] no GIF
Message-ID: <BCFB88F56191D4119AE500508B6DD67545C540@MSGNFLSS01>

Thanks, but I've already tried that with no luck.  Could it possibly be my
shapepath?
Also, I'm using the Windows binary of mapserv.exe.  Do I still have to
install GD?

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Pericles S. Nacionales [SMTP:pnaciona at gis.umn.edu]
> Sent:	Tuesday, August 14, 2001 12:27 PM
> To:	CurnewS at DFO-MPO.GC.CA
> Cc:	mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject:	Re: [mapserver-users] no GIF
> 
> Try adding a another slash "\" on your IMAGEPATH path.
> 
> >   IMAGEPATH "d:\inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\tmp"
> 
> IMAGEPATH "d:\inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\tmp\"
> 
> Also make sure that your IMAGEURL is actually "/tmp/" and not
> "/itasca/tmp/"
> 
> Good luck!
> Perry Nacionales
> 
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 CurnewS at DFO-MPO.GC.CA wrote:
> 
> > I've just recently installed Mapserver ver. 3.5 with OGR and GIF
> support.  I
> > have also tried to install the demo for ver. 3.4 and 3.5.  I have the
> new
> > symbol file and have edited the appropriate files according to the
> > readmes(see below).  I am running Win NT 4.0 Server with Service Pack 6a
> and
> > IIS 4.0.
> > 
> > When I initialize the demo I get the Mapserver interface with a black
> > screen.  In the demo.map I have all the layers turned on.  The GIF is
> not
> > even generated in the "tmp" directory.  
> > 
> > I have included the demo_init.html, demo.html, and demo.map files.  If
> > anyone could help me with this it would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Shannon
> > 
> > 
> > --------------------
> > demo.map
> > --------------------
> > 
> > #
> > # Start of map file
> > #
> > NAME DEMO
> > STATUS ON
> > SIZE 600 600
> > EXTENT 388107.634400379 5203120.88405952 500896.339019834
> 5310243.30613897
> > UNITS METERS
> > SHAPEPATH "d:\inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\data\"
> > IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
> > SYMBOLSET "d:\inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\symbols\symbols34.sym"
> > #IMAGETYPE PNG
> > 
> > #
> > # Projection definition, consult the PROJ.4 documentation for parameter
> > discussion
> > #
> > #PROJECTION
> > #  "proj=utm"
> > #  "ellps=GRS80"
> > #  "zone=15"
> > #  "north"
> > #  "no_defs"
> > #END
> > 
> > #
> > # Start of web interface definition
> > #
> > WEB
> >   HEADER demo_header.html
> >   TEMPLATE demo.html
> >   FOOTER demo_footer.html
> >   MINSCALE 1000
> >   MAXSCALE 1550000
> >   IMAGEPATH "d:\inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\tmp"
> >   IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
> >   # LOG "demo.log"
> > END
> > 
> > QUERYMAP
> >   SIZE 200 200
> >   STATUS ON
> >   STYLE HILITE
> >   COLOR 255 0 0
> > END
> > 
> > #
> > # Start of reference map
> > #
> > REFERENCE
> >   IMAGE graphics/reference.gif
> >   EXTENT 393234.393701263 5205405.16440722 495769.579718949
> 5307959.02579127
> >   SIZE 120 120
> >   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 255 255 255
> >     SIZE tiny    
> >   END
> >   STYLE 1
> >   SIZE 50 2
> >   COLOR 255 255 255
> >   UNITS MILES
> >   INTERVALS 1
> >   TRANSPARENT TRUE
> >   STATUS TRUE
> > END
> > 
> > #
> > # Start of symbol definitions (we're only using a few)
> > #
> > SYMBOL
> >   NAME 'circle'
> >   TYPE ELLIPSE
> >   POINTS 1 1 END
> >   FILLED
> > END
> > 
> > #
> > # Start of layer definitions
> > #
> > 
> > LAYER
> >   NAME county
> >   TYPE POLYGON
> >   STATUS DEFAULT
> >   DATA ctybdpy2
> >   CLASSITEM 'cty_name'
> >   CLASS
> >     EXPRESSION 'Itasca'
> >     OUTLINECOLOR 128 128 128
> >     COLOR 225 225 185
> >   END
> >   CLASS # every other county in the state
> >     EXPRESSION /./ 
> >     OUTLINECOLOR 128 128 128
> >     COLOR 255 255 255
> >   END
> > END
> > 
> > LAYER
> >   NAME cities
> >   TYPE POLYGON
> >   DATA mcd90py2
> >   STATUS ON
> >   CLASSITEM city_name	
> >   CLASS
> >     NAME "Cities & Towns"
> >     EXPRESSION /./
> >     COLOR 255 225 90
> >   END
> > END
> > 
> > LAYER
> >   NAME townships
> >   TYPE POLYLINE
> >   DATA twprgpy3
> >   STATUS ON
> >   CLASS
> >     SYMBOL 'circle'
> >     SIZE 2
> >     NAME 'Townships'
> >     COLOR 181 181 145
> >   END
> > END
> > 
> > LAYER
> >   NAME lakes
> >   TYPE POLYGON
> >   STATUS ON
> >   DATA lakespy2
> > 
> >   CLASS
> >     NAME 'Lakes & Rivers'
> >     TEMPLATE "lakespy2.html"
> >     COLOR 49 117 185  
> >   END
> > 
> >   HEADER "lakespy2_header.html"
> >   FOOTER "lakespy2_footer.html"
> >   
> >   TOLERANCE 3
> > END # lakes
> > 
> > LAYER
> >   NAME streams
> >   TYPE LINE
> >   STATUS ON
> >   DATA dlgstln2
> > 
> >   CLASS
> >     NAME "Streams"
> >     TEMPLATE "dlgstln2.html"    
> >     COLOR 49 117 185
> >   END
> > 
> >   HEADER "dlgstln2_header.html"
> >   FOOTER "dlgstln2_footer.html"
> > 
> >   TOLERANCE 5
> > END # streams
> > 
> > LAYER
> >   NAME roads
> >   MAXSCALE 300000
> >   STATUS ON
> >   DATA ctyrdln3
> >   TYPE LINE
> >   CLASS
> >     COLOR 0 0 0
> >   END
> > END # county roads
> > 
> > LAYER
> >   NAME roads
> >   MAXSCALE 300000
> >   STATUS ON
> >   DATA ctyrdln3
> >   TYPE ANNOTATION
> >   LABELITEM "road_name"
> >   CLASS
> >     COLOR 255 255 255
> >     SYMBOL 'symbols/images/ctyhwy.gif'    
> >     LABEL
> >       MINFEATURESIZE 40
> >       MINDISTANCE 150
> >       POSITION CC
> >       SIZE TINY
> >       COLOR 0 0 0
> >     END
> >   END
> > END # county road annotation
> > 
> > LAYER
> >   NAME roads
> >   MAXSCALE 600000
> >   STATUS ON
> >   DATA majrdln3
> >   TYPE LINE
> >   CLASS
> >     NAME "Roads"
> >     COLOR 0 0 0
> >   END
> > END # highways
> > 
> > LAYER
> >   NAME roads
> >   MAXSCALE 600000
> >   STATUS ON
> >   DATA majrdln3
> >   TYPE ANNOTATION
> >   LABELITEM "road_num"  
> >   CLASSITEM "road_class"
> >   CLASS
> >     EXPRESSION "3"
> >     COLOR 0 0 0 # dummy color
> >     SYMBOL 'symbols/images/sthwy.gif'
> >     LABEL
> >       MINFEATURESIZE 50
> >       MINDISTANCE 150
> >       POSITION CC
> >       SIZE TINY
> >       COLOR 0 0 0
> >     END
> >   END
> >   CLASS
> >     EXPRESSION "2" 
> >     COLOR 0 0 0 # dummy color
> >     SYMBOL 'symbols/images/ushwy.gif'
> >     LABEL
> >       MINFEATURESIZE 50
> >       MINDISTANCE 150
> >       POSITION CC
> >       SIZE TINY
> >       COLOR 0 0 0
> >     END
> >   END
> >   CLASS
> >     EXPRESSION "1" 
> >     COLOR 0 0 0 # dummy color
> >     SYMBOL 'symbols/images/interstate.gif'
> >     LABEL
> >       MINFEATURESIZE 50
> >       MINDISTANCE 150
> >       POSITION CC
> >       SIZE TINY
> >       COLOR 255 255 255
> >     END
> >   END
> > END # highway annotation
> > 
> > LAYER
> >   NAME cities
> >   TYPE ANNOTATION
> >   DATA mcd90py2
> >   STATUS ON
> >   LABELITEM "city_name"
> >   CLASSITEM "city_name"
> >   LABELMAXSCALE 500000
> >   CLASS
> >     EXPRESSION /./
> >     COLOR -1 -1 -1
> >     LABEL
> >       COLOR 0 0 0
> >       SHADOWCOLOR 218 218 218
> >       SHADOWSIZE 2 2
> >       TYPE BITMAP
> >       SIZE MEDIUM
> >       POSITION CC
> >       PARTIALS FALSE
> >       BUFFER 2
> >     END
> >   END
> > END
> > 
> > END
> > 
> > 
> > ------------------------
> > demo_init.html
> > ------------------------
> > 
> > <html>
> > <head><title>MapServer Demo Interface</title></head>
> > <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
> > 
> > <center><h2>MapServer Demo Interface</h2></center>
> > <p><hr><p>
> > Click on the initialize button to fire up the demo with 3 layers turned
> on
> > will be accessible for browsing. The
> > data are of Itasca County, MN and were derived, for the most part, from
> USGS
> > 1:24,000 quadrangles. Some things to note are:
> > 
> > <form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe">
> > 
> > <input type="hidden" name="map"
> value="d:\inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\demo.map">
> > <input type="hidden" name="layer" value="lakes">
> > <input type="hidden" name="layer" value="streams">
> > <input type="hidden" name="zoomsize" value=2>
> > 
> > <center><input type="submit" value="Initialize"></center>
> > 
> > </form>
> > 
> > <p><hr><p>
> > 
> > </body></html>
> > 
> > 
> > ---------------------
> > demo.html
> > ---------------------
> > 
> > <html>
> > <head><title>MapServer Demo Interface</title></head>
> > <body bgcolor=#FFFFFF>
> > 
> > <center><h1>MapServer Demo Interface</h1></center>
> > <hr>
> > <form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe">
> > 
> > <center>
> > <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=4 bgcolor="#000000">
> > <tr>
> > <td valign="top" align=center>
> >   <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
> >     <tr><td colspan="2"><INPUT NAME="img" TYPE="image" SRC="[img]"
> width=600
> > height=600 border=0></td></tr>
> >     <tr>
> >       <td>&nbsp;<font size=-1 face="arial,helvetica"
> > color="#FFFFFF"><b>Powered by MapServer</b></font></td>
> >       <td align="right"><img src="[scalebar]"></td>
> >     </tr>
> >   </table>
> > </td>
> > <td valign="top" bgcolor=#ffffff>
> >   <table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="#ffffff">
> >     <tr><td>
> >       <center><input type="submit" value="Refresh/Query"></center>
> >       <p>
> > 
> >       <input type="radio" name="mode" value="browse" checked> <b>Browse
> > map</b><br>
> >       <input type="radio" name="mode" value="query"> <b>Query
> > feature</b><br>
> >       <input type="radio" name="mode" value="nquery"> <b>Query multiple
> > features</b>
> > 
> >       <hr>
> > 
> >       <p>
> >       <b>Select Layers to Display: </b><br>
> >       <select multiple name="layer" size=3>
> >         <option value="cities" [cities_select]> Cities
> >         <option value="lakes" [lakes_select]> Lakes & Rivers
> >         <option value="streams" [streams_select]> Streams
> >         <option value="roads" [roads_select]> Roads
> >         <option value="townships" [townships_select]> Townships
> >       </select>
> > 
> >       <p>
> >       Zoom In <input type=radio name=zoomdir value=1 [zoomdir_1_check]> 
> >       Pan <input type=radio name=zoomdir value=0 [zoomdir_0_check]>
> >       Zoom Out <input type=radio name=zoomdir value=-1
> [zoomdir_-1_check]>
> >       <p>
> >       Zoom Size <input type=text name=zoomsize size=4 value=[zoomsize]>
> >       <p>
> > 
> >       <font size=+1><b>Legend</b></font><br><hr>
> >       <img src="[legend]"><hr>
> > 
> >       <p>
> >       <center><INPUT NAME="ref" TYPE="image" SRC="[ref]"
> > border="0"></center>
> >     </td></tr></table>
> > 
> >   </td></tr>
> > </table>
> > </center>
> > 
> > <input type="hidden" name="imgxy" value="299.5 299.5">
> > <input type="hidden" name="imgext" value="[mapext]">
> > <input type="hidden" name="map" value="[map]">
> > <input type="hidden" name="savequery" value="true">
> > <input type="hidden" name="mapext" value="shapes">
> > 
> > </form>
> > 
> > <p><hr><p>
> > 
> > </body></html>
> > 


From chuynh at ideorlando.org  Tue Aug 14 09:13:09 2001
From: chuynh at ideorlando.org (Chan B. Huynh)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:13:09 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] [Fwd: FAQ]
In-Reply-To: <D63765C66C33D41182780008C784CB56736D99@pca-ex03.pca.state.mn.us>
Message-ID: <KCEJLLAIGOFFEIFJJOCIOEEJCAAA.chuynh@ideorlando.org>

After you point a browser at http://host/ms_demo/demo_init.html and slapping
the 'initialize' button

demo_init.html will execute
<form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe">

and that's when the error occur if mapserv.exe corrupted or cannot be
execute.

sorry i mean mapserv.exe

-chan

-----Original Message-----
From: Fawcett, David [mailto:david.fawcett at moea.state.mn.us]
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 11:18 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu; 'Chan B. Huynh'
Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] [Fwd: FAQ]


>From your description, it is not clear to me when this error is occurring.

If you are using the Win32 binary, I see a potential problem in that when
you call the binary, you need to use the name 'mapserv.exe'.

Try changing the line from:

> <form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv">
>
To:

> <form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe">
>
>
>
David J. Fawcett
GIS / Databases

MN Office of Environmental Assistance
520 Lafayette Rd N
St. Paul, MN 55155
651.215.0200


> ----------
> From: 	Chan B. Huynh[SMTP:chuynh at ideorlando.org]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, August 14, 2001 10:03 AM
> To: 	Jamie Smedsmo; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: 	RE: [mapserver-users] [Fwd: FAQ]
>
> I think I ran into this error before.  It's quite a while so I can't
recall
> what I did exactly to debug it.  But my understanding is that mapserv
binary
> is probably corrupted (due to network problem!?) so that when the form in
> demo_init.html execute the line
>
> <form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv">
>
> It couldn't execute mapserv and instead it prompted up a download pop-up
> dialog for downloading mapserv.
>
> One option you can try is re-download mapserv binary and hopefully it'll
> work.
>
> -chan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> [mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu]On Behalf Of Jamie
> Smedsmo
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 9:17 AM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: [mapserver-users] [Fwd: FAQ]
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'll add this to the FAQ if one of you tells me the answer.
>
> Thanks,
> Jamie
>
> > Sujitra Thongjab wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ms_demo.zip
> >
> >     2.4 Common Error Messages
> >
> > Pointing a browser at http://host/ms_demo/demo_init.html and slapping
> > the 'initialize' button yields:
> >
> > Q: when i did all step untill 2.4 .After i pressed initialize button,
> > download pop-up window appeared, i dont' know what wrong??
> >
> > i will so much appreciate if you reply my mail , thank you
> >
> > Sinserely yours,
> >
> > sujitra thongjab
> >
> >
>



From chuynh at ideorlando.org  Tue Aug 14 09:22:09 2001
From: chuynh at ideorlando.org (Chan B. Huynh)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:22:09 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] get imgext value to javascript function
Message-ID: <KCEJLLAIGOFFEIFJJOCIGEEKCAAA.chuynh@ideorlando.org>


Is it possible to get the spatial extent of the existing inline image from
CGI variable imgext [minx] [miny] [maxx] [maxy] to a javascript function

ie: function mapextent(minx,miny,maxx,maxy){}

???

thanks
-chan



From assefa at dmsolutions.ca  Tue Aug 14 10:00:55 2001
From: assefa at dmsolutions.ca (Assefa Yewondwossen)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:00:55 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] no GIF
References: <BCFB88F56191D4119AE500508B6DD67545C53E@MSGNFLSS01>
Message-ID: <3B795947.F1690725@dmsolutions.ca>

Hi there,

Could you try to add a back- slash at the end of the IMAGEPATH (in the web
object):
    IMAGEPATH "d:\inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\tmp\"

I suppose that your alias for /tmp/ (coming from the IMAGEURL "/tmp/") points to
the directory d:\inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\tmp.

Later,




CurnewS at DFO-MPO.GC.CA wrote:

> I've just recently installed Mapserver ver. 3.5 with OGR and GIF support.  I
> have also tried to install the demo for ver. 3.4 and 3.5.  I have the new
> symbol file and have edited the appropriate files according to the
> readmes(see below).  I am running Win NT 4.0 Server with Service Pack 6a and
> IIS 4.0.
>
> When I initialize the demo I get the Mapserver interface with a black
> screen.  In the demo.map I have all the layers turned on.  The GIF is not
> even generated in the "tmp" directory.
>
> I have included the demo_init.html, demo.html, and demo.map files.  If
> anyone could help me with this it would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Shannon
>
> --------------------
> demo.map
> --------------------
>
> #
> # Start of map file
> #
> NAME DEMO
> STATUS ON
> SIZE 600 600
> EXTENT 388107.634400379 5203120.88405952 500896.339019834 5310243.30613897
> UNITS METERS
> SHAPEPATH "d:\inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\data\"
> IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
> SYMBOLSET "d:\inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\symbols\symbols34.sym"
> #IMAGETYPE PNG
>
> #
> # Projection definition, consult the PROJ.4 documentation for parameter
> discussion
> #
> #PROJECTION
> #  "proj=utm"
> #  "ellps=GRS80"
> #  "zone=15"
> #  "north"
> #  "no_defs"
> #END
>
> #
> # Start of web interface definition
> #
> WEB
>   HEADER demo_header.html
>   TEMPLATE demo.html
>   FOOTER demo_footer.html
>   MINSCALE 1000
>   MAXSCALE 1550000
>   IMAGEPATH "d:\inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\tmp"
>   IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
>   # LOG "demo.log"
> END
>
> QUERYMAP
>   SIZE 200 200
>   STATUS ON
>   STYLE HILITE
>   COLOR 255 0 0
> END
>
> #
> # Start of reference map
> #
> REFERENCE
>   IMAGE graphics/reference.gif
>   EXTENT 393234.393701263 5205405.16440722 495769.579718949 5307959.02579127
>   SIZE 120 120
>   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 255 255 255
>     SIZE tiny
>   END
>   STYLE 1
>   SIZE 50 2
>   COLOR 255 255 255
>   UNITS MILES
>   INTERVALS 1
>   TRANSPARENT TRUE
>   STATUS TRUE
> END
>
> #
> # Start of symbol definitions (we're only using a few)
> #
> SYMBOL
>   NAME 'circle'
>   TYPE ELLIPSE
>   POINTS 1 1 END
>   FILLED
> END
>
> #
> # Start of layer definitions
> #
>
> LAYER
>   NAME county
>   TYPE POLYGON
>   STATUS DEFAULT
>   DATA ctybdpy2
>   CLASSITEM 'cty_name'
>   CLASS
>     EXPRESSION 'Itasca'
>     OUTLINECOLOR 128 128 128
>     COLOR 225 225 185
>   END
>   CLASS # every other county in the state
>     EXPRESSION /./
>     OUTLINECOLOR 128 128 128
>     COLOR 255 255 255
>   END
> END
>
> LAYER
>   NAME cities
>   TYPE POLYGON
>   DATA mcd90py2
>   STATUS ON
>   CLASSITEM city_name
>   CLASS
>     NAME "Cities & Towns"
>     EXPRESSION /./
>     COLOR 255 225 90
>   END
> END
>
> LAYER
>   NAME townships
>   TYPE POLYLINE
>   DATA twprgpy3
>   STATUS ON
>   CLASS
>     SYMBOL 'circle'
>     SIZE 2
>     NAME 'Townships'
>     COLOR 181 181 145
>   END
> END
>
> LAYER
>   NAME lakes
>   TYPE POLYGON
>   STATUS ON
>   DATA lakespy2
>
>   CLASS
>     NAME 'Lakes & Rivers'
>     TEMPLATE "lakespy2.html"
>     COLOR 49 117 185
>   END
>
>   HEADER "lakespy2_header.html"
>   FOOTER "lakespy2_footer.html"
>
>   TOLERANCE 3
> END # lakes
>
> LAYER
>   NAME streams
>   TYPE LINE
>   STATUS ON
>   DATA dlgstln2
>
>   CLASS
>     NAME "Streams"
>     TEMPLATE "dlgstln2.html"
>     COLOR 49 117 185
>   END
>
>   HEADER "dlgstln2_header.html"
>   FOOTER "dlgstln2_footer.html"
>
>   TOLERANCE 5
> END # streams
>
> LAYER
>   NAME roads
>   MAXSCALE 300000
>   STATUS ON
>   DATA ctyrdln3
>   TYPE LINE
>   CLASS
>     COLOR 0 0 0
>   END
> END # county roads
>
> LAYER
>   NAME roads
>   MAXSCALE 300000
>   STATUS ON
>   DATA ctyrdln3
>   TYPE ANNOTATION
>   LABELITEM "road_name"
>   CLASS
>     COLOR 255 255 255
>     SYMBOL 'symbols/images/ctyhwy.gif'
>     LABEL
>       MINFEATURESIZE 40
>       MINDISTANCE 150
>       POSITION CC
>       SIZE TINY
>       COLOR 0 0 0
>     END
>   END
> END # county road annotation
>
> LAYER
>   NAME roads
>   MAXSCALE 600000
>   STATUS ON
>   DATA majrdln3
>   TYPE LINE
>   CLASS
>     NAME "Roads"
>     COLOR 0 0 0
>   END
> END # highways
>
> LAYER
>   NAME roads
>   MAXSCALE 600000
>   STATUS ON
>   DATA majrdln3
>   TYPE ANNOTATION
>   LABELITEM "road_num"
>   CLASSITEM "road_class"
>   CLASS
>     EXPRESSION "3"
>     COLOR 0 0 0 # dummy color
>     SYMBOL 'symbols/images/sthwy.gif'
>     LABEL
>       MINFEATURESIZE 50
>       MINDISTANCE 150
>       POSITION CC
>       SIZE TINY
>       COLOR 0 0 0
>     END
>   END
>   CLASS
>     EXPRESSION "2"
>     COLOR 0 0 0 # dummy color
>     SYMBOL 'symbols/images/ushwy.gif'
>     LABEL
>       MINFEATURESIZE 50
>       MINDISTANCE 150
>       POSITION CC
>       SIZE TINY
>       COLOR 0 0 0
>     END
>   END
>   CLASS
>     EXPRESSION "1"
>     COLOR 0 0 0 # dummy color
>     SYMBOL 'symbols/images/interstate.gif'
>     LABEL
>       MINFEATURESIZE 50
>       MINDISTANCE 150
>       POSITION CC
>       SIZE TINY
>       COLOR 255 255 255
>     END
>   END
> END # highway annotation
>
> LAYER
>   NAME cities
>   TYPE ANNOTATION
>   DATA mcd90py2
>   STATUS ON
>   LABELITEM "city_name"
>   CLASSITEM "city_name"
>   LABELMAXSCALE 500000
>   CLASS
>     EXPRESSION /./
>     COLOR -1 -1 -1
>     LABEL
>       COLOR 0 0 0
>       SHADOWCOLOR 218 218 218
>       SHADOWSIZE 2 2
>       TYPE BITMAP
>       SIZE MEDIUM
>       POSITION CC
>       PARTIALS FALSE
>       BUFFER 2
>     END
>   END
> END
>
> END
>
> ------------------------
> demo_init.html
> ------------------------
>
> <html>
> <head><title>MapServer Demo Interface</title></head>
> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
>
> <center><h2>MapServer Demo Interface</h2></center>
> <p><hr><p>
> Click on the initialize button to fire up the demo with 3 layers turned on
> will be accessible for browsing. The
> data are of Itasca County, MN and were derived, for the most part, from USGS
> 1:24,000 quadrangles. Some things to note are:
>
> <form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe">
>
> <input type="hidden" name="map" value="d:\inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\demo.map">
> <input type="hidden" name="layer" value="lakes">
> <input type="hidden" name="layer" value="streams">
> <input type="hidden" name="zoomsize" value=2>
>
> <center><input type="submit" value="Initialize"></center>
>
> </form>
>
> <p><hr><p>
>
> </body></html>
>
> ---------------------
> demo.html
> ---------------------
>
> <html>
> <head><title>MapServer Demo Interface</title></head>
> <body bgcolor=#FFFFFF>
>
> <center><h1>MapServer Demo Interface</h1></center>
> <hr>
> <form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe">
>
> <center>
> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=4 bgcolor="#000000">
> <tr>
> <td valign="top" align=center>
>   <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
>     <tr><td colspan="2"><INPUT NAME="img" TYPE="image" SRC="[img]" width=600
> height=600 border=0></td></tr>
>     <tr>
>       <td>&nbsp;<font size=-1 face="arial,helvetica"
> color="#FFFFFF"><b>Powered by MapServer</b></font></td>
>       <td align="right"><img src="[scalebar]"></td>
>     </tr>
>   </table>
> </td>
> <td valign="top" bgcolor=#ffffff>
>   <table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="#ffffff">
>     <tr><td>
>       <center><input type="submit" value="Refresh/Query"></center>
>       <p>
>
>       <input type="radio" name="mode" value="browse" checked> <b>Browse
> map</b><br>
>       <input type="radio" name="mode" value="query"> <b>Query
> feature</b><br>
>       <input type="radio" name="mode" value="nquery"> <b>Query multiple
> features</b>
>
>       <hr>
>
>       <p>
>       <b>Select Layers to Display: </b><br>
>       <select multiple name="layer" size=3>
>         <option value="cities" [cities_select]> Cities
>         <option value="lakes" [lakes_select]> Lakes & Rivers
>         <option value="streams" [streams_select]> Streams
>         <option value="roads" [roads_select]> Roads
>         <option value="townships" [townships_select]> Townships
>       </select>
>
>       <p>
>       Zoom In <input type=radio name=zoomdir value=1 [zoomdir_1_check]>
>       Pan <input type=radio name=zoomdir value=0 [zoomdir_0_check]>
>       Zoom Out <input type=radio name=zoomdir value=-1 [zoomdir_-1_check]>
>       <p>
>       Zoom Size <input type=text name=zoomsize size=4 value=[zoomsize]>
>       <p>
>
>       <font size=+1><b>Legend</b></font><br><hr>
>       <img src="[legend]"><hr>
>
>       <p>
>       <center><INPUT NAME="ref" TYPE="image" SRC="[ref]"
> border="0"></center>
>     </td></tr></table>
>
>   </td></tr>
> </table>
> </center>
>
> <input type="hidden" name="imgxy" value="299.5 299.5">
> <input type="hidden" name="imgext" value="[mapext]">
> <input type="hidden" name="map" value="[map]">
> <input type="hidden" name="savequery" value="true">
> <input type="hidden" name="mapext" value="shapes">
>
> </form>
>
> <p><hr><p>
>
> </body></html>

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Email: assefa at dmsolutions.ca
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From chuynh at ideorlando.org  Tue Aug 14 10:11:37 2001
From: chuynh at ideorlando.org (Chan B. Huynh)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:11:37 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] verbose "on"
Message-ID: <KCEJLLAIGOFFEIFJJOCIEEELCAAA.chuynh@ideorlando.org>


Has anyone try mapplet with verbose "on"?
What javascript function do you need to implement?

I'm looking at the Lanview sample written by Stephen Lime at the gallery
link.  Seems like you have to handle all coordinate calculations on the
client side -> lots of javascript to have the browser status-bar display the
x,y coordinates for the current location of the mouse cursor!?

thanks for sharing your experience.
-chan



From v at w.cl  Tue Aug 14 10:42:30 2001
From: v at w.cl (Vinko Vrsalovic B.)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:42:30 -0400 (CLT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] Shapefiles
In-Reply-To: <02f501c12497$3ab2c2e0$01bca8c0@Peach> from "Richard Ford" at Aug 14, 2001 06:00:46 PM
Message-ID: <200108141742.f7EHgVs15759@antonia.nn.cl>

> 
> > > EXTENT 388107.634400379 5203120.88405952 500896.339019834
> 5310243.30613897
> >
> > Is this extent correct?, you can use the perl script showextent.pl on
> > the shape file to see if it is.
> >
> > (ie, perl showextent.pl shapefile on the directory where the shapefile is)
> 
> *************************************************************************
> [root at localhost risk_data]# perl showextent.pl disslv1.shp
> Can't locate mapscript.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at showextent.pl line 3.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at showextent.pl line 3.
> **************************************************************************
> 
> I take it, I need to install Map script?  I am using Mapserver 3.3.011

yes, you need the perl version of mapscript installed for the script to
work. It's very easy to compile and install.

-- 
V. <v at w.cl>


From v at w.cl  Tue Aug 14 10:49:35 2001
From: v at w.cl (Vinko Vrsalovic B.)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:49:35 -0400 (CLT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] Shapefiles
In-Reply-To: <028201c1247f$9eba2390$01bca8c0@Peach> from "Richard Ford" at Aug 14, 2001 03:11:46 PM
Message-ID: <200108141749.f7EHnZD16405@antonia.nn.cl>

 
> > > #MARKERSET symbols/marker.sym
> > > #LINESET symbols/line.sym
> >
> > You should set the SYMBOL parameter as shown in the docs.
> 
> Quickly - what do they do?
 
They define how are the symbols drawn (color, width of lines, etc.)

> I thought leave otu what I do not know to minimise problems.  I was
> following the tutorial linked to from the mapserver documentaton page.

If you're using Mapserver 3.3 you don't need to follow my previous advice
(about concatenating the files), just uncomment those 3 lines.

> > > LAYER
> > >   NAME "test"
> > >   TYPE RASTER
> >
> > is the shapefile of raster type?!?!?
> 
> I assumed it was a raster.  It did not load with polygon - but with raster
> the computer churned a bit - but still no display.  I will be able to get
> ArcView installed on friday and then see what it is as you say below.
 
You can try with LINE also (to get this running before friday :) )

> >
> > When I first started with Mapserver I got the same problem, it turned
> > out to be the extent badly set.
> 
> I will try that perl script.  I thought if it is wrong, worst case I would
> have a truncated image - or a very small image surrounded by white?  Or is
> my understanding of the EXTENT parameter incorrect?
 
The worst case is a blank image :)

> are keen to get our projetc moving.  As such - it always pleases people to
> see progress.  And at thsi early stage - great progress and a verification
> of our possible choice in MapServer - would be a display of "some kind!" a
> shapefile by it.  :)
 
If you want, you can send me your shapefiles and I can send you back
a map file that works (or should work) :).


-- 
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From pnaciona at gis.umn.edu  Tue Aug 14 11:33:02 2001
From: pnaciona at gis.umn.edu (Pericles S. Nacionales)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:33:02 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] [Fwd: FAQ]
In-Reply-To: <KCEJLLAIGOFFEIFJJOCIOEEJCAAA.chuynh@ideorlando.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.21.0108141325440.1636557-100000@center.gis.umn.edu>

It sounds to me like you have permissions problem on your web
server.  Make sure you have permission to execute CGI programs from the
cgi-bin directory.  

-Perry

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Chan B. Huynh wrote:

> After you point a browser at http://host/ms_demo/demo_init.html and slapping
> the 'initialize' button
> 
> demo_init.html will execute
> <form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe">
> 
> and that's when the error occur if mapserv.exe corrupted or cannot be
> execute.
> 
> sorry i mean mapserv.exe
> 
> -chan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fawcett, David [mailto:david.fawcett at moea.state.mn.us]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 11:18 AM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu; 'Chan B. Huynh'
> Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] [Fwd: FAQ]
> 
> 
> >From your description, it is not clear to me when this error is occurring.
> 
> If you are using the Win32 binary, I see a potential problem in that when
> you call the binary, you need to use the name 'mapserv.exe'.
> 
> Try changing the line from:
> 
> > <form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv">
> >
> To:
> 
> > <form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe">
> >
> >
> >
> David J. Fawcett
> GIS / Databases
> 
> MN Office of Environmental Assistance
> 520 Lafayette Rd N
> St. Paul, MN 55155
> 651.215.0200
> 
> 
> > ----------
> > From: 	Chan B. Huynh[SMTP:chuynh at ideorlando.org]
> > Sent: 	Tuesday, August 14, 2001 10:03 AM
> > To: 	Jamie Smedsmo; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> > Subject: 	RE: [mapserver-users] [Fwd: FAQ]
> >
> > I think I ran into this error before.  It's quite a while so I can't
> recall
> > what I did exactly to debug it.  But my understanding is that mapserv
> binary
> > is probably corrupted (due to network problem!?) so that when the form in
> > demo_init.html execute the line
> >
> > <form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv">
> >
> > It couldn't execute mapserv and instead it prompted up a download pop-up
> > dialog for downloading mapserv.
> >
> > One option you can try is re-download mapserv binary and hopefully it'll
> > work.
> >
> > -chan
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> > [mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu]On Behalf Of Jamie
> > Smedsmo
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 9:17 AM
> > To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> > Subject: [mapserver-users] [Fwd: FAQ]
> >
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'll add this to the FAQ if one of you tells me the answer.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jamie
> >
> > > Sujitra Thongjab wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ms_demo.zip
> > >
> > >     2.4 Common Error Messages
> > >
> > > Pointing a browser at http://host/ms_demo/demo_init.html and slapping
> > > the 'initialize' button yields:
> > >
> > > Q: when i did all step untill 2.4 .After i pressed initialize button,
> > > download pop-up window appeared, i dont' know what wrong??
> > >
> > > i will so much appreciate if you reply my mail , thank you
> > >
> > > Sinserely yours,
> > >
> > > sujitra thongjab
> > >
> > >
> >
> 



From cameron at socialchange.net.au  Wed Aug 15 00:44:25 2001
From: cameron at socialchange.net.au (Cameron Shorter)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:44:25 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Tiling images
Message-ID: <3B7A2859.2D95E125@socialchange.net.au>

Can anyone tell me if mapserv (any version) can tile images, or is it
only shapefiles?

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From Andreas.Maul at bgr.de  Wed Aug 15 04:08:20 2001
From: Andreas.Maul at bgr.de (Maul, Andreas-Alexander)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 12:08:20 +0100
Subject: [mapserver-users] Mapserver v. 3.5 with SDE support
Message-ID: <AD47E2B18130D311BA6600E02944BCBA02CED5F0@exhann.nlfb.bgr.de>

Hi,
is it possible that the mapserver version 3.5 nightly build for win32 could
be compiled with SDE support? I would greatly appreciate it.
Regards,
Andreas


From warmerdam at pobox.com  Wed Aug 15 05:49:26 2001
From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 08:49:26 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Tiling images
References: <3B7A2859.2D95E125@socialchange.net.au>
Message-ID: <3B7A6FD6.60408@pobox.com>

Cameron Shorter wrote:

>Can anyone tell me if mapserv (any version) can tile images, or is it
>only shapefiles?
>
Cameron,

Not sure what you mean.  A shapefile TILEINDEX can be used to refer to image
files in a raster layer.  

Best regards,

---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com
light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Programmer for Rent





From rob at socialchange.net.au  Wed Aug 15 06:16:12 2001
From: rob at socialchange.net.au (Rob Atkinson)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 23:16:12 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Tiling images
References: <3B7A2859.2D95E125@socialchange.net.au> <3B7A6FD6.60408@pobox.com>
Message-ID: <3B7A761C.8FD554AD@socialchange.net.au>

Hi Frank,

I've been a bit out of the loop myself recently.

does mapserv now support reprojection of images
(via the OGC WMS interface?)

How does it support the listing of supported projections in the Capabilities
document?

Rob

Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>
> >Can anyone tell me if mapserv (any version) can tile images, or is it
> >only shapefiles?
> >
> Cameron,
>
> Not sure what you mean.  A shapefile TILEINDEX can be used to refer to image
> files in a raster layer.
>
> Best regards,
>
> ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
> I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com
> light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
> and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Programmer for Rent
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From warmerdam at pobox.com  Wed Aug 15 06:25:40 2001
From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:25:40 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Tiling images
References: <3B7A2859.2D95E125@socialchange.net.au> <3B7A6FD6.60408@pobox.com> <3B7A761C.8FD554AD@socialchange.net.au>
Message-ID: <3B7A7854.5030804@pobox.com>

Rob Atkinson wrote:

>Hi Frank,
>
>I've been a bit out of the loop myself recently.
>
>does mapserv now support reprojection of images
>(via the OGC WMS interface?)
>
>How does it support the listing of supported projections in the Capabilities
>document?
>
Rob,

I think there will be a HOWTO addressing some of the WMS issues.  The 3.5
MapServer can now support reprojection of raster images that are read 
through
GDAL (NOT if read through the older TIFF interface!).

This works through the WMS interface, or normally if the projection of the
raster layer (as defined in a PROJECTION section) is different than that of
the output map being generated.  

Projections can also now be defined in terms of their EPSG coordinate system
numbers in PROJECTION sections.  These definitions can be properly reflected
back in capabilities documents generated by MapServer.  In any event, most
capabilities data can be provided in the map file via METADATA overrides.

PS. Some of the raster reprojection issues are addressed in:

  http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc/raster-howto.html

(Forgive my errant email formatting ... I haven't quite mastered the Mozilla
composition tool to turn off all it's formatting *help*). 

Best regards,

---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com
light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Programmer for Rent





From jimburnett at ntelos.net  Wed Aug 15 06:51:57 2001
From: jimburnett at ntelos.net (Jim Burnett)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:51:57 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Dynamic Layers  PHP/Mapscript
Message-ID: <004601c12591$731adaf0$2f01a8c0@morpheus>

Hi, I am running mapserver 3.5(night build), with PHP/Mapscript. 
I was wondering how to turn a layer on, before it gets displayed to my browser.

I have 3 layers in my map file. Layers 0 and 2 have "status on"  Layer 1 has "status off".

Here is what I am trying...
I am turning the status of my 2nd layer to "on" but it still doesnt show up.




$mapObj = ms_newMapObj("$dataPath/$map.map");
$layerObj = $mapObj->getLayer(1);
$layerObj->status=1;

header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("content-type: image/jpeg");
$img->saveImage("",MS_JPEG,0,0, 80);


thanks!!

-jim

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From assefa at dmsolutions.ca  Wed Aug 15 06:59:07 2001
From: assefa at dmsolutions.ca (Assefa Yewondwossen)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:59:07 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Dynamic Layers  PHP/Mapscript
References: <004601c12591$731adaf0$2f01a8c0@morpheus>
Message-ID: <3B7A802B.491CE0A3@dmsolutions.ca>

Hi there,


 You should use something like this :
   ....
   $layerObj = $mapObj->getLayer(1);
   $layerObj->set("status", 1);
   ....

Bye,

Jim Burnett wrote:

> Hi, I am running mapserver 3.5(night build), with PHP/Mapscript.I was
> wondering how to turn a layer on, before it gets displayed to my
> browser. I have 3 layers in my map file. Layers 0 and 2 have "status
> on"  Layer 1 has "status off". Here is what I am trying...I am turning
> the status of my 2nd layer to "on" but it still doesnt show
> up.    $mapObj = ms_newMapObj("$dataPath/$map.map");
> $layerObj = $mapObj->getLayer(1);
> $layerObj->status=1;header("Cache-Control: no-cache,
> must-revalidate");
> header("Pragma: no-cache");
> header("content-type: image/jpeg");
> $img->saveImage("",MS_JPEG,0,0, 80);  thanks!! -jim

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From toni.underwater at tiscalinet.it  Sun Aug 12 04:51:36 2001
From: toni.underwater at tiscalinet.it (Antonio Cosenza)
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 13:51:36 +0200
Subject: [mapserver-users] Image Speed Questions---Generic
In-Reply-To: <13858AA1A74F30419F319ACB66A9D12201913F@mercator.topozone.com>
References: <13858AA1A74F30419F319ACB66A9D12201913F@mercator.topozone.com>
Message-ID: <01081213513600.01446@linux>

Il 22:09, luned? 30 luglio 2001, scrivesti:
> Lowell -
>
> Since November, 1999, the TopoZone has been in the business of serving
> "high-res imagery" "for a large spatial extent" by providing USGS DRG
> (topographic) maps of the entire US online.  We're now migrating that
> application to a MapServer platform so we can add some interesting stuff
> to it.  I've been in and out of the PC graphics biz for about 20 years
> now, and I've learned a bit about performance.  I wanted to take the
> time to write a thorough commentary on raster tips, but that's going to
> take me a while.  Here's a shorter version along with a promise for a
> more extensive treatment someday as soon as I can.
>
> For computer graphics in general I like to live by two golden rules -
> (1) precompute the hell out of everything, and (2) trivially reject as
> much as you can as fast as you can.  Here are some notes on both rules.
>
> 1. Precompute everything - if you're trying to serve a lot of users on
> the Web with relatively inexpensive hardware, you'll find that a fast
> RAID-5 SCSI array is much cheaper than lots of RAM and CPU.  Wherever
> it's possible, think hard about how you can precompute raster results
> rather than doing them on the fly.  Look at a simple case - zooming out
> from a raster image that's viewed at 100% (1:1) zoom.  When you zoom out
> 4x, you're reading 16 times more input pixels than you are writing
> output pixels.  At 16x it's 256 times more; you're basically reading a
> lot of data and throwing 99.5% of it away.  For the TopoZone site we
> chose to offer four fixed zoom levels - period.  They are all
> precomputed and there is no on-the-fly scaling.  This is a more
> reasonable approach for topo maps, because they're useful (i.e.
> readable) only at a relatively small range of scales.  For aerial or
> satellite imagery, or other continuous-tone imagery, you can zoom out
> farther and still have things work.
>
> Using GDAL support with overviews (built with GDALADDO) is a very easy
> way to do this.  Precomputing zoom scales offers a tradeoff between disk
> space and speed - the more space you use, the faster things will go.
> However, the highest-level overviews require the smallest amount of
> space but actually save the most time.  If you created only one 4x
> overview, it would (roughly) increase your storage space by only about
> 7% (since the 4x view is 1/16th the size of the original) but for all
> views zoomed out beyond 4x you're going to deal with 1/16th as many
> pixels.  Creating lots of overviews (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc.) gives you
> the best performance, but think very hard about whether you really need
> that 2x overview.  Your mileage may vary based on usage, CPU speed, RAM,
> disk performance, etc. so you really should test things yourself in your
> real environment.
>
> 2. Trivially reject as much as you can - "trivial rejection" is the
> process of very quickly deciding which input data is not needed in the
> output map, and ignoring it as quickly as possible.  For raster data
> sets, the way to do this is with a TILEINDEX shapefile.  By reading ONE
> input fileset (the TILEINDEX shapefile), you can very quickly determine
> exactly which TIFF input files are needed to create the requested map.
> This is enormously faster than reading lots of TIFF/GeoTIFF files,
> extracting the bounding box from each, and then discovering that you
> never needed to open most of them in the first place.  Disk seek time is
> expensive compared to sequential reading, so reading 100,000 bytes from
> one file is much, much faster than reading 100 bytes from each of 1,000
> files.
>
> In addition to these general rules, make sure your images don't make
> life difficult for MapServer.  For TIFF images, this particularly means
> making sure they are created with only one (or a few) rows per strip.
> Some image libraries create single-strip TIFF files, with all the rows
> in one strip.  If you are using any sort of data compression (PackBits,
> for example) MapServer will need to read and interpret (i.e. decompress)
> all the data in that strip up to the point you need.  For example, if
> you've got a 7,000-row file in one strip, and you need to display the
> bottom few rows of that file, MapServer will need to read from disk AND
> decompress essentially the entire file just to get a few lines from it.
> If you have one row per strip, you will get less effective compression
> (because each row is compressed independently) but you will only need to
> read the rows you need.  A compromise with a small number of rows per
> strip might give you better compression with acceptable performance.
>
> Finally, know your data and your users.  Some data types compress better
> than others.  Some are virtually incompressible (at least within the
> world of formats TIFF supports).  Some data types are used differently
> than others - as I suggested above, a 32x zoom out on a 1-meter aerial
> photo is a somewhat reasonable thing to ask for, while the same zoom on
> a topographic map produces illegible mush.
>
> I'm still shuffling around some R&D equipment, but sometime this week
> I'll post a link to a MapServer site that offers a 30-meter shaded
> relief map of the entire US and 2.5-meter topographic maps of the entire
> US.  Together they're over 60,000 files with about 300 GB of data, and
> they illustrate some of the things I've talked about here.
>
> 	- Ed
>
> Ed McNierney
> Chief Mapmaker
> TopoZone.com
> ed at topozone.com
> (978) 251-4242
>

Thank you very much Ed.
What you said has been very important for me, cause i'm working on my TESI, 
and my problem was to decide how serve big satellites image using mapserver. 
I like the 'trivial rejection' rule, it's fantastic. But i have one more 
question about tileindex shapefile. If i have a very big raster image should 
i have to manually create a set of little tiles images or can I use some 
program that can do it quicly for me?
Thanks a lot to you and to all mapserver community
Toni



From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Wed Aug 15 07:12:48 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:12:48 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Dynamic Layers  PHP/Mapscript
References: <004601c12591$731adaf0$2f01a8c0@morpheus>
Message-ID: <3B7A8360.EC4F0988@dmsolutions.ca>

> Jim Burnett wrote:
> 
> Here is what I am trying...
> I am turning the status of my 2nd layer to "on" but it still doesnt
> show up.
> 
> $mapObj = ms_newMapObj("$dataPath/$map.map");
> $layerObj = $mapObj->getLayer(1);
> $layerObj->status=1;

Setting '$layerObj->status=1' directly does not update the internal
MapServer data structures... you have to use

  $layerObj->set("status", 1);

or even better:

  $layerObj->set("status", MS_ON);

This applies to setting values in any of the MapScript objects in PHP.

<LONG_STORY>
I know this kind of sucks but unfortunately we're stuck with this
because of the way things work internally in PHP.  Last time I checked
there was still no way for a PHP module to have a callback or an event
trigerred when one of its class members was changed by the script... so
the only way around this is using the set() method.
</LONG_STORY>

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      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.



From jimburnett at ntelos.net  Wed Aug 15 07:22:06 2001
From: jimburnett at ntelos.net (Jim Burnett)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:22:06 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Dynamic Layers  PHP/Mapscript
References: <004601c12591$731adaf0$2f01a8c0@morpheus> <3B7A802B.491CE0A3@dmsolutions.ca>
Message-ID: <006701c12595$a97c3950$2f01a8c0@morpheus>

I just figured that out. LOL
I always post a mesasge, then figure it our like just a few minutes after I post. Gosh! :-)


-jim


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Assefa Yewondwossen 
  To: Jim Burnett 
  Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 9:59 AM
  Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Dynamic Layers PHP/Mapscript


  Hi there, 
    
   You should use something like this : 
     .... 
     $layerObj = $mapObj->getLayer(1); 
     $layerObj->set("status", 1); 
     .... 

  Bye, 

  Jim Burnett wrote: 

    Hi, I am running mapserver 3.5(night build), with PHP/Mapscript.I was wondering how to turn a layer on, before it gets displayed to my browser. I have 3 layers in my map file. Layers 0 and 2 have "status on"  Layer 1 has "status off". Here is what I am trying...I am turning the status of my 2nd layer to "on" but it still doesnt show up.    $mapObj = ms_newMapObj("$dataPath/$map.map"); 
    $layerObj = $mapObj->getLayer(1); 
    $layerObj->status=1;header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate"); 
    header("Pragma: no-cache"); 
    header("content-type: image/jpeg"); 
    $img->saveImage("",MS_JPEG,0,0, 80);  thanks!! -jim 
  -- 
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From jimburnett at ntelos.net  Wed Aug 15 07:55:54 2001
From: jimburnett at ntelos.net (Jim Burnett)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:55:54 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Dynamic Layers  PHP/Mapscript
References: <004601c12591$731adaf0$2f01a8c0@morpheus>
Message-ID: <008201c1259a$64251e30$2f01a8c0@morpheus>

OK, I figured it out.

$mapObj = ms_newMapObj("$dataPath/$map.map");
$layerObj = $mapObj->getLayer(1);
$layerObj->set("status",1);   <---------------------------------------THIS LINE

header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("content-type: image/jpeg");
$img->saveImage("",MS_JPEG,0,0, 80);

thanks!!


-jim
I always seem to figure things out just after I post. HRM!  oh well, good for the archive

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Burnett 
  To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 9:51 AM
  Subject: [mapserver-users] Dynamic Layers PHP/Mapscript


  Hi, I am running mapserver 3.5(night build), with PHP/Mapscript. 
  I was wondering how to turn a layer on, before it gets displayed to my browser.

  I have 3 layers in my map file. Layers 0 and 2 have "status on"  Layer 1 has "status off".

  Here is what I am trying...
  I am turning the status of my 2nd layer to "on" but it still doesnt show up.




  $mapObj = ms_newMapObj("$dataPath/$map.map");
  $layerObj = $mapObj->getLayer(1);
  $layerObj->status=1;

  header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
  header("Pragma: no-cache");
  header("content-type: image/jpeg");
  $img->saveImage("",MS_JPEG,0,0, 80);


  thanks!!

  -jim

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From alfred.kleva at siol.net  Wed Aug 15 09:43:44 2001
From: alfred.kleva at siol.net (Alfred Kleva)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:43:44 +0100
Subject: [mapserver-users] 2 Color(1 bit) tiff files
Message-ID: <001d01c125a9$74933630$1a00000a@3port.si>

Hi folks !

I have the same problem like Hana. I have tested ms 3.5 on RH7.9 with this
options :

1. ./configure --with-tiff --with-gdal ...
this options do not support classes

2. ./configure --without-tiff --with-gdal ...
this options (use gdal tiff) support classes, but same images do not display
correctly

3. I have added "new" code in "static int drawTIFF" of mapraster.c (see
"case PHOTOMETRIC_MINISWHITE:").
Options are ./configure --with-tiff --with-gdal ...
In my tests it's works OK.

****** TOP ********
static int drawTIFF(mapObj *map, layerObj *layer, gdImagePtr img, char
*filename)
{
#ifdef USE_TIFF
  int i,j; /* loop counters */

  double x,y;
  TIFF *tif=NULL;
  unsigned char *buf;
  long w, h;
  short type, nbits;
  unsigned short compression;
  unsigned short *red, *green, *blue;
  int cmap[MAXCOLORS];

  int startx, starty; /* this is where we start out reading */
  int st,strip;  /* current strip */
  int xi,yi,startj,endj,boffset,vv;

  double ulx, uly; /* upper left-hand coordinates */
  double skipx,skipy; /* skip factors (x and y) */
  double cx,cy; /* cell sizes (x and y) */
  long rowsPerStrip;

  TIFFSetWarningHandler(NULL); /* can these be directed to the mapserver
error functions... */
  TIFFSetErrorHandler(NULL);

  tif = TIFFOpen(filename, "rb");
  if(!tif) {
    msSetError(MS_IMGERR, "Error loading TIFF image.", "drawTIFF()");
    return(-1);
  }

  if(readGEOTiff(tif, &ulx, &uly, &cx, &cy) != 0) {
    if(readWorldFile(filename, &ulx, &uly, &cx, &cy) != 0) {
      TIFFClose(tif);
      return(-1);
    }
  }

  skipx = map->cellsize/cx;
  skipy = map->cellsize/cy;
  startx = (map->extent.minx - ulx)/cx;
  starty = (uly - map->extent.maxy)/cy;

  TIFFGetField(tif, TIFFTAG_IMAGEWIDTH, &w);
  TIFFGetField(tif, TIFFTAG_IMAGELENGTH, &h);

  TIFFGetField(tif, TIFFTAG_BITSPERSAMPLE, &nbits);
  if(nbits != 8 && nbits != 4 && nbits != 1) {
    msSetError(MS_IMGERR, "Only 1, 4, and 8-bit images are supported.",
"drawTIFF()");
    TIFFClose(tif);
    return(-1);
  }

  TIFFGetField(tif, TIFFTAG_ROWSPERSTRIP, &rowsPerStrip);
  TIFFGetField(tif, TIFFTAG_COMPRESSION, &compression);

  TIFFGetField(tif, TIFFTAG_PHOTOMETRIC, &type); /* check image type */
  switch(type) {
  case(PHOTOMETRIC_PALETTE):
    TIFFGetField(tif, TIFFTAG_COLORMAP, &red, &green, &blue);
    if(layer->numclasses > 0) {
      char tmpstr[3];
      int c;

      for(i=0; i<MAXCOLORS; i++) {
 if(i != layer->offsite) {
   sprintf(tmpstr,"%d", i);
   c = getClass(layer, tmpstr);

   if(c == -1) /* doesn't belong to any class, so handle like offsite */
     cmap[i] = -1;
   else {
     if(layer->class[c].color == -1) /* use raster color */
       cmap[i] = add_color(map,img, CVT(red[i]), CVT(green[i]),
CVT(blue[i]));
     else
       if(layer->class[c].color == -255) /* make transparent */
  cmap[i] = -1;
       else
  cmap[i] = layer->class[c].color; /* use class color */
   }
 } else
   cmap[i] = -1;
      }
    } else {
      for(i=0; i<MAXCOLORS; i++) {
 if(i != layer->offsite)
   cmap[i] = add_color(map,img, CVT(red[i]), CVT(green[i]), CVT(blue[i]));
        else
   cmap[i] = -1;
      }
    }
    break;
  case PHOTOMETRIC_MINISBLACK: /* classes are NOT honored for
non-colormapped data */
    if (nbits==1) {
      if(layer->offsite >= 0)
 cmap[layer->offsite] = -1;
      if(layer->offsite != 0)
 cmap[0]=add_color(map,img,0,0,0);
      if(layer->offsite != 1)
 cmap[1]=add_color(map,img,255,255,255);
    } else {
      if (nbits==4) {
 for (i=0; i<16; i++) {
   if(i != layer->offsite)
     cmap[i]=add_color(map,img,i*17,i*17,i*17);
   else
     cmap[i] = -1;
 }
      } else { /* 8-bit */
 for (i=0; i<256; i++) {
   if(i != layer->offsite)
     cmap[i]=add_color(map,img,(i>>4)*17,(i>>4)*17,(i>>4)*17);
   else
     cmap[i] = -1;
 }
      }
    }
    break;
  case PHOTOMETRIC_MINISWHITE: /* classes are NOT honored for
non-colormapped data */
/* ORIGINAL COMENTED
    if (nbits==1) {
      if(layer->offsite >= 0)
 cmap[layer->offsite] = -1;
      if(layer->offsite != 0)
 cmap[0]=add_color(map,img,255,255,255);
      if(layer->offsite != 1)
 cmap[1]=add_color(map,img,0,0,0);
    }
    else {
      msSetError(MS_IMGERR,"Can't do inverted grayscale
images","drawTIFF()");
      TIFFClose(tif);
      return(-1);
    }
*/
    /* COPYED FROM 'case(PHOTOMETRIC_PALETTE)' and 'case
PHOTOMETRIC_MINISWHITE' */
    if (nbits==1) {
      TIFFGetField(tif, TIFFTAG_COLORMAP, &red, &green, &blue);
      if(layer->numclasses > 0) {
        char tmpstr[3];
        int c;

        for(i=0; i<MAXCOLORS; i++) {
   if(i != layer->offsite) {
     sprintf(tmpstr,"%d", i);
     c = getClass(layer, tmpstr);

     if(c == -1) /* doesn't belong to any class, so handle like offsite */
       cmap[i] = -1;
     else {
       if(layer->class[c].color == -1) /* use raster color */
         cmap[i] = add_color(map,img, CVT(red[i]), CVT(green[i]),
CVT(blue[i]));
       else
         if(layer->class[c].color == -255) /* make transparent */
    cmap[i] = -1;
         else
    cmap[i] = layer->class[c].color; /* use class color */
     }
   } else
     cmap[i] = -1;
        }
      } else {
        if(layer->offsite >= 0)
   cmap[layer->offsite] = -1;
        if(layer->offsite != 0)
   cmap[0]=add_color(map,img,255,255,255);
        if(layer->offsite != 1)
   cmap[1]=add_color(map,img,0,0,0);
 /*
        for(i=0; i<MAXCOLORS; i++) {
   if(i != layer->offsite)
     cmap[i] = add_color(map,img, CVT(red[i]), CVT(green[i]), CVT(blue[i]));
          else
     cmap[i] = -1;
        }
 */
      }
    }
    else {
      msSetError(MS_IMGERR,"Can't do inverted grayscale
images","drawTIFF()");
      TIFFClose(tif);
      return(-1);
    }
    break;
  default:
    msSetError(MS_IMGERR, "Only colormapped and grayscale images are
supported.", "drawTIFF()");
    TIFFClose(tif);
    return(-1);
  }

  buf = (unsigned char *)_TIFFmalloc(TIFFStripSize(tif)); /* allocate strip
buffer */

  /*
  ** some set-up;  the startx calculation is problematical analytically so
we
  ** find it iteratively
  */
  x=startx;
  for (j=0; j<img->sx && MS_NINT(x)<0; j++) x+=skipx;
  startx=x; startj=j;
  for (j=startj; j<img->sx && MS_NINT(x)<w; j++) x+=skipx;
  endj=j;
  y=starty;
  strip=-1;
  for(i=0; i<img->sy; i++) { /* for each row */
    yi=MS_NINT(y);
    if((yi >= 0) && (yi < h)) {
      st=TIFFComputeStrip(tif,yi,0);
      if (st!=strip) {
        TIFFReadEncodedStrip(tif, st, buf, TIFFStripSize(tif));
        strip=st;
      }
      x = startx;

      switch (nbits) {
      case 8:
        boffset=(yi % rowsPerStrip) * w;
        for(j=startj; j<endj; j++) {
   xi=MS_NINT(x);
   vv=buf[xi+boffset];

   if (cmap[vv] != -1)
     img->pixels[i][j] = cmap[vv];

   x+=skipx;
        }
        break;
      case 4:
        boffset=(yi % rowsPerStrip) * ((w+1) >> 1);
        for(j=startj; j<endj; j++) {
          xi=MS_NINT(x);
          vv=(buf[(xi >> 1) + boffset] >> (4*((yi+1) & 1))) & 15;

   if (cmap[vv] != -1)
     img->pixels[i][j] = cmap[vv];

   x+=skipx;
 }
        break;
      case 1:
        boffset=(yi % rowsPerStrip) * ((w+7) >> 3);
        for(j=startj; j<endj; j++) {
          xi=MS_NINT(x);
          vv=(buf[(xi >> 3) + boffset] >> (7-(xi & 7))) & 1;

   if (cmap[vv] != -1)
     img->pixels[i][j] = cmap[vv];

   x+=skipx;
 }
        break;
      }
    }
    y+=skipy;
  }
  _TIFFfree(buf);

  TIFFClose(tif);
  return(0);
#else
   msSetError(MS_IMGERR, "TIFF support is not available.", "drawTIFF()");
   return(-1);
#endif
}
****** BOTTOM ***


Hana wrote :
------------- Begin Forwarded Message -------------

From: hana.jirsova at oku-pce.cz
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 9:46:12 +0100
To: mapserver-info at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: 2 Color(1 bit) tiff files

I tried to display 2 color's files (1 bit) in different
colors, but unsuccessfully. I have rasters for various
themes (one raster for rivers, second for seats, third for
forest,....) and all are drawn only with black and
white(transparent) color. Maybe I'm doing some mistakes in
code. Please, be so kind and look at it :

#**********************
This is the raster of forest
LAYER
  NAME 'cl2421'
  DATA cl2421.tif
  TYPE RASTER
  CLASS
    EXPRESSION "1"
    COLOR 0 255 0
  END  # CLASS
  OFFSITE 0
END  # LAYER
# this upper example works only in black and white



#**********************
# I need to do it with the group of rasters ... rivers,
# it works only in black and white , I don't know how to
# change it
LAYER
  NAME 'cv2421'
  TYPE RASTER
  STATUS off
  TILEINDEX 'kl50'
  TILEITEM RIVERS
  MAXSCALE 200000
  OFFSITE 0
END  # LAYER

Thank you very much. Hana Jirsova


------------- End Forwarded Message -------------


I have tested ms 3.5 on RH7.9 with this options :

1. ./configure --with-tiff --with-gdal ...
this options do not support classes

2. ./configure --without-tiff --with-gdal ...
this options (use gdal tiff) support classes, but same images do not display
correctly

3. I have added "new" code in "static int drawTIFF" of mapraster.c (see
"case PHOTOMETRIC_MINISWHITE:").
Options are ./configure --with-tiff --with-gdal ...
In my tests it's works OK.

LP Alfred Kleva

****** TOP ********
static int drawTIFF(mapObj *map, layerObj *layer, gdImagePtr img, char
*filename)
{
#ifdef USE_TIFF
  int i,j; /* loop counters */

  double x,y;
  TIFF *tif=NULL;
  unsigned char *buf;
  long w, h;
  short type, nbits;
  unsigned short compression;
  unsigned short *red, *green, *blue;
  int cmap[MAXCOLORS];

  int startx, starty; /* this is where we start out reading */
  int st,strip;  /* current strip */
  int xi,yi,startj,endj,boffset,vv;

  double ulx, uly; /* upper left-hand coordinates */
  double skipx,skipy; /* skip factors (x and y) */
  double cx,cy; /* cell sizes (x and y) */
  long rowsPerStrip;

  TIFFSetWarningHandler(NULL); /* can these be directed to the mapserver
error functions... */
  TIFFSetErrorHandler(NULL);

  tif = TIFFOpen(filename, "rb");
  if(!tif) {
    msSetError(MS_IMGERR, "Error loading TIFF image.", "drawTIFF()");
    return(-1);
  }

  if(readGEOTiff(tif, &ulx, &uly, &cx, &cy) != 0) {
    if(readWorldFile(filename, &ulx, &uly, &cx, &cy) != 0) {
      TIFFClose(tif);
      return(-1);
    }
  }

  skipx = map->cellsize/cx;
  skipy = map->cellsize/cy;
  startx = (map->extent.minx - ulx)/cx;
  starty = (uly - map->extent.maxy)/cy;

  TIFFGetField(tif, TIFFTAG_IMAGEWIDTH, &w);
  TIFFGetField(tif, TIFFTAG_IMAGELENGTH, &h);

  TIFFGetField(tif, TIFFTAG_BITSPERSAMPLE, &nbits);
  if(nbits != 8 && nbits != 4 && nbits != 1) {
    msSetError(MS_IMGERR, "Only 1, 4, and 8-bit images are supported.",
"drawTIFF()");
    TIFFClose(tif);
    return(-1);
  }

  TIFFGetField(tif, TIFFTAG_ROWSPERSTRIP, &rowsPerStrip);
  TIFFGetField(tif, TIFFTAG_COMPRESSION, &compression);

  TIFFGetField(tif, TIFFTAG_PHOTOMETRIC, &type); /* check image type */
  switch(type) {
  case(PHOTOMETRIC_PALETTE):
    TIFFGetField(tif, TIFFTAG_COLORMAP, &red, &green, &blue);
    if(layer->numclasses > 0) {
      char tmpstr[3];
      int c;

      for(i=0; i<MAXCOLORS; i++) {
 if(i != layer->offsite) {
   sprintf(tmpstr,"%d", i);
   c = getClass(layer, tmpstr);

   if(c == -1) /* doesn't belong to any class, so handle like offsite */
     cmap[i] = -1;
   else {
     if(layer->class[c].color == -1) /* use raster color */
       cmap[i] = add_color(map,img, CVT(red[i]), CVT(green[i]),
CVT(blue[i]));
     else
       if(layer->class[c].color == -255) /* make transparent */
  cmap[i] = -1;
       else
  cmap[i] = layer->class[c].color; /* use class color */
   }
 } else
   cmap[i] = -1;
      }
    } else {
      for(i=0; i<MAXCOLORS; i++) {
 if(i != layer->offsite)
   cmap[i] = add_color(map,img, CVT(red[i]), CVT(green[i]), CVT(blue[i]));
        else
   cmap[i] = -1;
      }
    }
    break;
  case PHOTOMETRIC_MINISBLACK: /* classes are NOT honored for
non-colormapped data */
    if (nbits==1) {
      if(layer->offsite >= 0)
 cmap[layer->offsite] = -1;
      if(layer->offsite != 0)
 cmap[0]=add_color(map,img,0,0,0);
      if(layer->offsite != 1)
 cmap[1]=add_color(map,img,255,255,255);
    } else {
      if (nbits==4) {
 for (i=0; i<16; i++) {
   if(i != layer->offsite)
     cmap[i]=add_color(map,img,i*17,i*17,i*17);
   else
     cmap[i] = -1;
 }
      } else { /* 8-bit */
 for (i=0; i<256; i++) {
   if(i != layer->offsite)
     cmap[i]=add_color(map,img,(i>>4)*17,(i>>4)*17,(i>>4)*17);
   else
     cmap[i] = -1;
 }
      }
    }
    break;
  case PHOTOMETRIC_MINISWHITE: /* classes are NOT honored for
non-colormapped data */
/* ORIGINAL COMENTED
    if (nbits==1) {
      if(layer->offsite >= 0)
 cmap[layer->offsite] = -1;
      if(layer->offsite != 0)
 cmap[0]=add_color(map,img,255,255,255);
      if(layer->offsite != 1)
 cmap[1]=add_color(map,img,0,0,0);
    }
    else {
      msSetError(MS_IMGERR,"Can't do inverted grayscale
images","drawTIFF()");
      TIFFClose(tif);
      return(-1);
    }
*/
    /* COPYED FROM 'case(PHOTOMETRIC_PALETTE)' and 'case
PHOTOMETRIC_MINISWHITE' */
    if (nbits==1) {
      TIFFGetField(tif, TIFFTAG_COLORMAP, &red, &green, &blue);
      if(layer->numclasses > 0) {
        char tmpstr[3];
        int c;

        for(i=0; i<MAXCOLORS; i++) {
   if(i != layer->offsite) {
     sprintf(tmpstr,"%d", i);
     c = getClass(layer, tmpstr);

     if(c == -1) /* doesn't belong to any class, so handle like offsite */
       cmap[i] = -1;
     else {
       if(layer->class[c].color == -1) /* use raster color */
         cmap[i] = add_color(map,img, CVT(red[i]), CVT(green[i]),
CVT(blue[i]));
       else
         if(layer->class[c].color == -255) /* make transparent */
    cmap[i] = -1;
         else
    cmap[i] = layer->class[c].color; /* use class color */
     }
   } else
     cmap[i] = -1;
        }
      } else {
        if(layer->offsite >= 0)
   cmap[layer->offsite] = -1;
        if(layer->offsite != 0)
   cmap[0]=add_color(map,img,255,255,255);
        if(layer->offsite != 1)
   cmap[1]=add_color(map,img,0,0,0);
 /*
        for(i=0; i<MAXCOLORS; i++) {
   if(i != layer->offsite)
     cmap[i] = add_color(map,img, CVT(red[i]), CVT(green[i]), CVT(blue[i]));
          else
     cmap[i] = -1;
        }
 */
      }
    }
    else {
      msSetError(MS_IMGERR,"Can't do inverted grayscale
images","drawTIFF()");
      TIFFClose(tif);
      return(-1);
    }
    break;
  default:
    msSetError(MS_IMGERR, "Only colormapped and grayscale images are
supported.", "drawTIFF()");
    TIFFClose(tif);
    return(-1);
  }

  buf = (unsigned char *)_TIFFmalloc(TIFFStripSize(tif)); /* allocate strip
buffer */

  /*
  ** some set-up;  the startx calculation is problematical analytically so
we
  ** find it iteratively
  */
  x=startx;
  for (j=0; j<img->sx && MS_NINT(x)<0; j++) x+=skipx;
  startx=x; startj=j;
  for (j=startj; j<img->sx && MS_NINT(x)<w; j++) x+=skipx;
  endj=j;
  y=starty;
  strip=-1;
  for(i=0; i<img->sy; i++) { /* for each row */
    yi=MS_NINT(y);
    if((yi >= 0) && (yi < h)) {
      st=TIFFComputeStrip(tif,yi,0);
      if (st!=strip) {
        TIFFReadEncodedStrip(tif, st, buf, TIFFStripSize(tif));
        strip=st;
      }
      x = startx;

      switch (nbits) {
      case 8:
        boffset=(yi % rowsPerStrip) * w;
        for(j=startj; j<endj; j++) {
   xi=MS_NINT(x);
   vv=buf[xi+boffset];

   if (cmap[vv] != -1)
     img->pixels[i][j] = cmap[vv];

   x+=skipx;
        }
        break;
      case 4:
        boffset=(yi % rowsPerStrip) * ((w+1) >> 1);
        for(j=startj; j<endj; j++) {
          xi=MS_NINT(x);
          vv=(buf[(xi >> 1) + boffset] >> (4*((yi+1) & 1))) & 15;

   if (cmap[vv] != -1)
     img->pixels[i][j] = cmap[vv];

   x+=skipx;
 }
        break;
      case 1:
        boffset=(yi % rowsPerStrip) * ((w+7) >> 3);
        for(j=startj; j<endj; j++) {
          xi=MS_NINT(x);
          vv=(buf[(xi >> 3) + boffset] >> (7-(xi & 7))) & 1;

   if (cmap[vv] != -1)
     img->pixels[i][j] = cmap[vv];

   x+=skipx;
 }
        break;
      }
    }
    y+=skipy;
  }
  _TIFFfree(buf);

  TIFFClose(tif);
  return(0);
#else
   msSetError(MS_IMGERR, "TIFF support is not available.", "drawTIFF()");
   return(-1);
#endif
}
****** BOTTOM ***





From pramsey at refractions.net  Wed Aug 15 08:57:21 2001
From: pramsey at refractions.net (Paul Ramsey)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 08:57:21 -0700
Subject: [mapserver-users] Image Speed Questions---Generic
References: <13858AA1A74F30419F319ACB66A9D12201913F@mercator.topozone.com> <01081213513600.01446@linux>
Message-ID: <3B7A9BE1.A545EC66@refractions.net>

Could I get some enlightenment from the raster experts on the benefits
of various image formats?

Right now, I have 25metre relief for all of BC, in about 120 files, in
PNG format. I am guessing that I can radically improve my speed by
changing to a format which does not require decompression. Would TIFF be
a faster format? Assuming it is, Ed mentions this concept of
strips-and-lines with respect to TIFF files: is this some way of making
random access of the tiff files faster? What do the concepts refer to,
and what is the best balance of the variables?

Thanks,
Paul

Antonio Cosenza wrote:
> 
> Il 22:09, luned? 30 luglio 2001, scrivesti:
> > Lowell -
> >
> > Since November, 1999, the TopoZone has been in the business of serving
> > "high-res imagery" "for a large spatial extent" by providing USGS DRG
> > (topographic) maps of the entire US online.  We're now migrating that
> > application to a MapServer platform so we can add some interesting stuff
> > to it.  I've been in and out of the PC graphics biz for about 20 years
> > now, and I've learned a bit about performance.  I wanted to take the
> > time to write a thorough commentary on raster tips, but that's going to
> > take me a while.  Here's a shorter version along with a promise for a
> > more extensive treatment someday as soon as I can.
> >
> > For computer graphics in general I like to live by two golden rules -
> > (1) precompute the hell out of everything, and (2) trivially reject as
> > much as you can as fast as you can.  Here are some notes on both rules.
> >
> > 1. Precompute everything - if you're trying to serve a lot of users on
> > the Web with relatively inexpensive hardware, you'll find that a fast
> > RAID-5 SCSI array is much cheaper than lots of RAM and CPU.  Wherever
> > it's possible, think hard about how you can precompute raster results
> > rather than doing them on the fly.  Look at a simple case - zooming out
> > from a raster image that's viewed at 100% (1:1) zoom.  When you zoom out
> > 4x, you're reading 16 times more input pixels than you are writing
> > output pixels.  At 16x it's 256 times more; you're basically reading a
> > lot of data and throwing 99.5% of it away.  For the TopoZone site we
> > chose to offer four fixed zoom levels - period.  They are all
> > precomputed and there is no on-the-fly scaling.  This is a more
> > reasonable approach for topo maps, because they're useful (i.e.
> > readable) only at a relatively small range of scales.  For aerial or
> > satellite imagery, or other continuous-tone imagery, you can zoom out
> > farther and still have things work.
> >
> > Using GDAL support with overviews (built with GDALADDO) is a very easy
> > way to do this.  Precomputing zoom scales offers a tradeoff between disk
> > space and speed - the more space you use, the faster things will go.
> > However, the highest-level overviews require the smallest amount of
> > space but actually save the most time.  If you created only one 4x
> > overview, it would (roughly) increase your storage space by only about
> > 7% (since the 4x view is 1/16th the size of the original) but for all
> > views zoomed out beyond 4x you're going to deal with 1/16th as many
> > pixels.  Creating lots of overviews (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc.) gives you
> > the best performance, but think very hard about whether you really need
> > that 2x overview.  Your mileage may vary based on usage, CPU speed, RAM,
> > disk performance, etc. so you really should test things yourself in your
> > real environment.
> >
> > 2. Trivially reject as much as you can - "trivial rejection" is the
> > process of very quickly deciding which input data is not needed in the
> > output map, and ignoring it as quickly as possible.  For raster data
> > sets, the way to do this is with a TILEINDEX shapefile.  By reading ONE
> > input fileset (the TILEINDEX shapefile), you can very quickly determine
> > exactly which TIFF input files are needed to create the requested map.
> > This is enormously faster than reading lots of TIFF/GeoTIFF files,
> > extracting the bounding box from each, and then discovering that you
> > never needed to open most of them in the first place.  Disk seek time is
> > expensive compared to sequential reading, so reading 100,000 bytes from
> > one file is much, much faster than reading 100 bytes from each of 1,000
> > files.
> >
> > In addition to these general rules, make sure your images don't make
> > life difficult for MapServer.  For TIFF images, this particularly means
> > making sure they are created with only one (or a few) rows per strip.
> > Some image libraries create single-strip TIFF files, with all the rows
> > in one strip.  If you are using any sort of data compression (PackBits,
> > for example) MapServer will need to read and interpret (i.e. decompress)
> > all the data in that strip up to the point you need.  For example, if
> > you've got a 7,000-row file in one strip, and you need to display the
> > bottom few rows of that file, MapServer will need to read from disk AND
> > decompress essentially the entire file just to get a few lines from it.
> > If you have one row per strip, you will get less effective compression
> > (because each row is compressed independently) but you will only need to
> > read the rows you need.  A compromise with a small number of rows per
> > strip might give you better compression with acceptable performance.
> >
> > Finally, know your data and your users.  Some data types compress better
> > than others.  Some are virtually incompressible (at least within the
> > world of formats TIFF supports).  Some data types are used differently
> > than others - as I suggested above, a 32x zoom out on a 1-meter aerial
> > photo is a somewhat reasonable thing to ask for, while the same zoom on
> > a topographic map produces illegible mush.
> >
> > I'm still shuffling around some R&D equipment, but sometime this week
> > I'll post a link to a MapServer site that offers a 30-meter shaded
> > relief map of the entire US and 2.5-meter topographic maps of the entire
> > US.  Together they're over 60,000 files with about 300 GB of data, and
> > they illustrate some of the things I've talked about here.
> >
> >       - Ed
> >
> > Ed McNierney
> > Chief Mapmaker
> > TopoZone.com
> > ed at topozone.com
> > (978) 251-4242
> >
> 
> Thank you very much Ed.
> What you said has been very important for me, cause i'm working on my TESI,
> and my problem was to decide how serve big satellites image using mapserver.
> I like the 'trivial rejection' rule, it's fantastic. But i have one more
> question about tileindex shapefile. If i have a very big raster image should
> i have to manually create a set of little tiles images or can I use some
> program that can do it quicly for me?
> Thanks a lot to you and to all mapserver community
> Toni


From pnaciona at gis.umn.edu  Wed Aug 15 09:01:11 2001
From: pnaciona at gis.umn.edu (Pericles S. Nacionales)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:01:11 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Mapserver v. 3.5 with SDE support
In-Reply-To: <AD47E2B18130D311BA6600E02944BCBA02CED5F0@exhann.nlfb.bgr.de>
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.21.0108151053480.1671318-100000@center.gis.umn.edu>

Andreas,

I will look into getting ArcSDE installed on one of my Windows
machine.  Unfortunately, as much as I would like to include SDE in the
win32 binary package, I can't do it soon enough.  I'm out of town right
now and will be gone for the rest of August and most of September.  If you
wantthis functionality ASAP, perhaps someone in the list can give it to
you.  Also, it would be nice if anyone can document how they compiled SDE
into MapServer.

-Perry


On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Maul, Andreas-Alexander wrote:

> Hi,
> is it possible that the mapserver version 3.5 nightly build for win32 could
> be compiled with SDE support? I would greatly appreciate it.
> Regards,
> Andreas
> 



From nhv at cape.com  Wed Aug 15 10:05:15 2001
From: nhv at cape.com (Norman Vine)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 13:05:15 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Image Speed Questions---Generic
In-Reply-To: <3B7A9BE1.A545EC66@refractions.net>
Message-ID: <002501c125ac$7508d400$a300a8c0@nhv>

Paul Ramsey writes:
>
>Could I get some enlightenment from the raster experts on the benefits
>of various image formats?
>
>Right now, I have 25metre relief for all of BC, in about 120 files, in
>PNG format. I am guessing that I can radically improve my speed by
>changing to a format which does not require decompression. 
>Would TIFF be
>a faster format? Assuming it is, Ed mentions this concept of
>strips-and-lines with respect to TIFF files: is this some way of making
>random access of the tiff files faster? What do the concepts refer to,
>and what is the best balance of the variables?

IMHO Generally speaking a Run Length Encoded (RLE) 
tile based Image format will give the best overall performance 
with 8 bit images.

I have found that compression of some sort greatly helps disk seek 
and read times never mind storage requirements, and that RLE 
decompresses VERY quickly.

There are other compression schemes that also decompress
quickly, mostly codebook based, but RLE works

The trick is to store LARGE images with many tiles 
< keeping  the tile dimensions a power of two >
and only requesting the necessary tiles for the subimage
requested.

FYI, The Tiff library supports a RLE tiled image format
and subimage requests, greatly simplifying the code you
have to write :-)

Cheers

Norman Vine


From jimburnett at ntelos.net  Wed Aug 15 10:47:23 2001
From: jimburnett at ntelos.net (Jim Burnett)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 13:47:23 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] reference map  PHP/Mapscript
Message-ID: <007701c125b2$57269fc0$2f01a8c0@morpheus>

MapServer/Mapscript 3.5  Night build   PHP4.0.5



OK, The documentation says I have to use a GIF file for the reference map, but I only get the little red X. I switched back to jpg, and my ref map comes up, but I dont get a box for my current extent.  Has anyone got the refrence map working without using GIF? Sample code?

thanks

-jim

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From AWOOLEY at mountainland.org  Wed Aug 15 14:36:13 2001
From: AWOOLEY at mountainland.org (ANDREW WOOLEY)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 15:36:13 -0600
Subject: [mapserver-users] PHP QueryByPoint
Message-ID: <sb7a96f9.069@email.mountainland.org>

Folks,

I have a strong feeling that the answer to my question is something I can find in the docs, but I am not sure where to look so I turn to you.

I am using PHP mapscript on RedHat 7.1 and am finally getting it.  However, I am having some strange behavior occurring when I querybypoint.  The results come back correctly and it all looks good except that my map extent returns to the original each time.  In other words, if I query, the map zooms out all the way.  I have not found a place in the code where it should do that.  Also, I am not sure how to high light the shape that gets clicked.  If anyone can point me to some simple code that will show this, I would be much obliged.  By the way, I am using the gmap code already and it is great, but I can't work my way through it to figure out where the shape gets highlighted and how to maintain the current map extent.

Thanks very much for your patience and assistance.

Andrew

Andrew Wooley
GIS Operations Manager
Mountainland Association of Governments
Orem, UT

phone:  801.229.3844
fax:       801.229.3801
email:   awooley at mountainland.org



From christym at geoplan.ufl.edu  Wed Aug 15 16:34:31 2001
From: christym at geoplan.ufl.edu (lc)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:34:31 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Mapplet document.mapserv has no properties
Message-ID: <3B7B0707.E29A110E@geoplan.ufl.edu>

Hello all,

I need help with mapplet.  I'm getting the following error message when I try to drag-zoom:
    "Applet mapplet document.mapserv has no properties"

where "document.mapserv" is the form that's submitted to the mapserver app.

Please check out the following site:
http://geneva/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/var/www/html/download/mapserv/maps/doqq.map&layers=cntbnd+hydros&mapext=370000+360000+793990.758+59428.989&amp;mode=browse

and its source code, and let me know if you have ideas on remedying this problem.

Thank you.
Regards,
Christine McCain
Research Assistant
Geoplan / University of FL


From mgiesbrecht at geoarctic.com  Wed Aug 15 16:58:16 2001
From: mgiesbrecht at geoarctic.com (Mark Giesbrecht)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:58:16 -0600
Subject: [mapserver-users] Apache msSaveImage()
Message-ID: <3B7B0C98.2C085B6F@geoarctic.com>

Hi all,

I know this error is more specific to website configuration, but I can't
seem to find an answer;  I'm running Apache on NT, and can't seem to
configure it to enable mapserver to write to the /tmp/ directory.

msSaveImage(): Unable to access file.
(g:\oracle\ora81\apache\apache\htdocs\ms_demo\DEMO997919362465.gif)


Any pointers?

Thanks in advance,

Mark
--
Mark Giesbrecht, M.Sc.
GIS Programmer/Analyst
GeoArctic International Services Ltd.
mgiesbrecht at geoarctic.com http://www.geoarctic.com
phone: (403) 290-1320  fax:  (403) 264-5848




From jef.mony at free.fr  Tue Aug 14 03:48:25 2001
From: jef.mony at free.fr (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-Fran=E7ois_MONY?=)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:48:25 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: [mapserver-users] compilation
Message-ID: <997786105.3b7901f965e1e@imp.free.fr>

Hi,

I try to compile the CVS version of mpaserver.
I use ./configure --with-gd --with-tiff --with-jpeg --without-ttf --with-
php=/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/php-4.0.4pl1 --with-apx (wich was good with mapserver 4)

and I have this message :
bash: ./configure: Aucun fichier ou repertoire de ce type

same message with ./configure --help

configure is 777 and really exist !

An idea ??

Thanks

Jean-Fran?ois MONY - jef.mony at free.fr
Parc naturel r?gional de Lorraine
Responsable informatique/SIG
tel : 03-83-84-06-37
fax : 03-81-33-60
D?tach? aupr?s du laboratoire de phyto?cologie de l'universit? de Metz
tel : 03-87-37-84-05
fax : 


From mapserver at cubok.com  Wed Aug 15 18:12:07 2001
From: mapserver at cubok.com (Richard Ford)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:12:07 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Shapefiles
References: <00e801c12465$a62b58c0$01bca8c0@Peach> <3B79485D.EA152806@refractions.net>
Message-ID: <005201c125f0$77bcb880$01bca8c0@Peach>

Thanks a lot.

That saves me two days as I waited for the install CD's of ArcView.

BTW - what would or can one do to show RASTER files.  Again I know nothing
of GIS to well.  I know that Raster is a format and that ArcIMS does not
display raster images.  Does Mapserver display or can it display RASTER
images.

And if so - is a ratser image a very common type of file used in most GIS
applications?  ArcView applications (models)?

Cheers,
Richard.



> Shape files only hold vector data: points, lines, polygons. So that
> should clear up one problem there :) Your test layer was declared as a
> raster (an image).
> Go to the ESRI web site (www.esri.com) and download their free tool,
> ArcExplorer. This program lets you view and query shape files
> interactively. You can use it to figure out what you're dealing with
> before trying to shoehorn them into mapserver.
>
> Best of luck,
> Paul
>
> Richard Ford wrote:
> >
> > G'Day All,
> >
> > Ok, I have been experimenting with Mapserver and I have a moderate grasp
on
> > the various files and configuration system.  Not good enough to make a
> > polished site - but good enough to test appropriateness of technology.
:)
> >
> > Now I have a whole heap of shapefiles make in ESRI ArcView.
> >
> > How do I load them!  :)
> >
> > I have made my own .map files and templates - heavily based on the
MS_DEMO
> > download.
> >
> > I have the shapefiles ready and shapepath set.
> >
> > Do I need to have the exact type set like raster, line, polygon, etc...
As
> > I have tried various shapefiles and colour options and all I get is a
blank
> > square were I was expecting some sort of image?
> >
> > ***********************************************************
> >
> > #
> > # Start of map file
> > #
> > NAME LANCE
> > STATUS ON
> > SIZE 1200 1200
> > #SHADESET symbols/shade.sym
> > #MARKERSET symbols/marker.sym
> > #LINESET symbols/line.sym
> > EXTENT 388107.634400379 5203120.88405952 500896.339019834
5310243.30613897
> > #UNITS METERS
> > SHAPEPATH "/usr/local/apache/htdcos/lance/risk_data"
> > #IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
> >
> > #
> > # Start of web interface definition
> > #
> > WEB
> >   HEADER demo_header.html
> >   TEMPLATE demo.html
> >   FOOTER demo_footer.html
> >   MINSCALE 1000
> >   MAXSCALE 1550000
> >   IMAGEPATH "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/tmp/"
> >   IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
> >   # LOG "demo.log"
> > END
> >
> > QUERYMAP
> >   SIZE 200 200
> >   STATUS ON
> >   STYLE HILITE
> >   COLOR 255 0 0
> > END
> >
> > #
> > # Start of reference map
> > #
> > #REFERENCE
> > #  IMAGE graphics/reference.tif
> > #  EXTENT 393234.393701263 5205405.16440722 495769.579718949
> > 5307959.02579127
> > #  SIZE 120 120
> > #  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 255 255 255
> >     SIZE tiny
> >   END
> >   STYLE 1
> >   SIZE 50 2
> >   COLOR 255 255 255
> >   UNITS MILES
> >   INTERVALS 1
> >   TRANSPARENT TRUE
> >   STATUS TRUE
> > END
> >
> > #
> > # Start of layer definitions
> > #
> >
> > ##################################
> > LAYER
> >   NAME "test"
> >   TYPE RASTER
> >   STATUS DEFAULT
> >   DATA disslv1
> >
> >   CLASS
> >  COLOR 250 140 250
> >   END
> >
> > END
> > ####################################
> >
> > END # Map File
> >
> > *************************************************
> >
> > disslv1 is a shapefile (well the 3 files, .shp, .shx, .dbf) and nothing
> > loads?
> >
> > I even changed the data to a known shapefile in the ms_demo directory
and
> > copied the same layer definition and I still got a blank box (But always
> > with a working navigation system).
> >
> > Demo_init.html is set to load 'test' as a default layer....  clicking on
the
> > "re-display/query button still shows an empty square?
> >
> > I will not be meeting the creator of the shapefiles until Friday and I
guess
> > I will need more info about what is inside them to be able to define a
layer
> > to display them?  I guess what I really wanted to do was to have a
working
> > system - though that just shows a basic map with 1 layer so he can see
it.
> > Proof of technology - to prove that mapserver is what we want to use and
not
> > ArcIMS - urghhh!.
> >
> > Many Thanks as I find my feet..... GIS expert - I am not.  :)
> >
> > Richard Ford.
> > richard at cubok.com   www.cubok.com
> >
> > The views expressed here are solely my own and do not necessarily
represent
> > those of my employer.
>



From matt at aruke.com  Wed Aug 15 19:24:40 2001
From: matt at aruke.com (Matt Carlson)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:24:40 +0900
Subject: [mapserver-users] watermarking
References: <997786105.3b7901f965e1e@imp.free.fr>
Message-ID: <000901c125fa$9adb9ca0$0400a8c0@matt>

Hello,

we are currently pursing a client that wishes to copywright thier images in
case someone attempts to save a map from the browser.  i want to do
something similar to what ewatermark.com is doing http://www.ewatermark.com
with their visible watermark.  does anyone have experience in integrating
something like this with mapserver?

Thanks in advance,

Matt



From matt at aruke.com  Wed Aug 15 20:37:25 2001
From: matt at aruke.com (Matt Carlson)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:37:25 +0900
Subject: [mapserver-users] watermarking
References: <997786105.3b7901f965e1e@imp.free.fr> <000901c125fa$9adb9ca0$0400a8c0@matt> <3B7B38D2.7B3D67E1@adelaide.edu.au>
Message-ID: <000e01c12604$c4e437a0$0400a8c0@matt>

here's my solution for a baseline copywright embedded on the map using perl
mapscript.  company-logo points to a pixmap symbol in my markerset file.

##### place copywright on map ############################
  $layer = new layerObj($map);
  $layer->{name} = "copywright";
  $layer->{type} = $mapscript::MS_POINT;
  $layer->{status} = $mapscript::MS_ON;

  $class = new classObj($layer);
  $class->{name} = 'copywrightclass';
  $symx = $map->getSymbolByName($mapscript::MS_MARKERSET,'company-logo');
  $class->{symbol} = $symx;

  $lat_pix = ($latdf * 2)/$setmh; ## setmw and setmh are map height and
width values.  latdf and londf are lat and lon degree distance values across
the map.
  $lon_pix = ($londf * 2)/$setmw;


  $cpy_lat = $lat - ($lat_pix * 262);  ##these will change dependant on map
size (262,170)
  $cpy_lon = $lon - ($lon_pix * 170);

  $point = new pointObj();
  $point->{x} = $cpy_lon;
  $point->{y} = $cpy_lat;
  $point->draw($map,$layer,$img,'copywrightclass',undef);

  $layer->draw($map,$img);
#######################################################

what i'm looking for is some way to prevent people from right clicking the
map gif image on the browser screen and saving the map image onto thier
desktop.  the effect i'm wanting is when someone does save the map image,
somehow an embedded image shows up with a big copywright message in the
middle.  i thought company's like digimarc and ewatermark were doing
something similair to this??

matt



----- Original Message -----
From: "Lyndon Zimmermann" <lyndon.zimmermann at adelaide.edu.au>
To: "Matt Carlson" <matt at aruke.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] watermarking


> Matt,
>
> a screen dump does a reasonable job of copying a map - you won't
> watermark that!  The "as-delivered" png or gif is tidier though.
>
> On a similar note, I can't see how to add text to the scalebar either
> for a copyright, acknowledgment or caveat. Any clues?
>
> Lyndon Z
>
> Matt Carlson wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > we are currently pursing a client that wishes to copywright thier images
in
> > case someone attempts to save a map from the browser.  i want to do
> > something similar to what ewatermark.com is doing
http://www.ewatermark.com
> > with their visible watermark.  does anyone have experience in
integrating
> > something like this with mapserver?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Matt
>



From frosch at cs.tu-berlin.de  Thu Aug 16 01:26:01 2001
From: frosch at cs.tu-berlin.de (Thorsten Fischer)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:26:01 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: [mapserver-users] Shapefiles
In-Reply-To: <005201c125f0$77bcb880$01bca8c0@Peach>
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10108161020200.2773-100000@bolero>

> BTW - what would or can one do to show RASTER files.  Again I know nothing
> of GIS to well.  I know that Raster is a format and that ArcIMS does not
> display raster images.  Does Mapserver display or can it display RASTER
> images.

A raster file is anything that is measured in width and height of pixels.
Your mapserver is creating raster files as output, namely .png or .gif
files. The most common raster file type to _read_ in GIS (and the only one
that i have seen used so far) is .tif as there is a standard for
geo-referencing those. 

There is no special format called 'raster'. The term 'raster' is used as
opposite to 'vector'.

I do not think that ArcIMS does not display raster images.


hope that helps,

thorsten

--

thorsten fischer : frosch (at) derfrosch (dot) de

hostien in groesseren mengen sind schwer zu beschaffen



From frosch at cs.tu-berlin.de  Thu Aug 16 01:49:46 2001
From: frosch at cs.tu-berlin.de (Thorsten Fischer)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:49:46 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: [mapserver-users] watermarking
In-Reply-To: <000e01c12604$c4e437a0$0400a8c0@matt>
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10108161026430.2773-100000@bolero>

On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Matt Carlson wrote:

> here's my solution for a baseline copywright embedded on the map using perl
> mapscript.  company-logo points to a pixmap symbol in my markerset file.

There is no reliable way to watermark digital data, though there is
nothing bad in putting a company's logo on a picture.


Watermarking of digital data does not work. Watermarking of digital data
does not work. Watermarking of digital data does not work. No matter what
the manufacturer of your watermarking scheme tells you: it does not work.

At least it does not prevent the copying process itself; if it were
reliable, it would ease tracking of copyright violators, but even that
part ... does not work.

That said: in my humbleth opinion, it's evil. It's digital data, it's in
its nature to be copied.

> what i'm looking for is some way to prevent people from right clicking the
> map gif image on the browser screen and saving the map image onto thier
> desktop.

Hum???

When the image is created (by copying things around and finally creating
a copy to the disk), the webserver copies it to the socket that
belongs to the tcp connection: first copy. Any point inbetween that
routes your packet copies it from one point to another to send it, but I
will skip those here. Then the client takes it and copies it into memory:
second copy. Most probably, it gets cached as well: third copy. I left out
several steps, but the client has several copies already created.

If you do not want your data to be copied, don't copy it yourself and
leave it alone.

> the effect i'm wanting is when someone does save the map image,
> somehow an embedded image shows up with a big copywright message in the
> middle.  i thought company's like digimarc and ewatermark were doing
> something similair to this??

You can do something similar using javascript to trap mouse events and
react according to them. Some porn sites do it, take a look at them. But
you will only shut the most unskilled persons out who cannot turn off
javascript in their browser.


And even if you manage to do this, I can still see the URL of your page
on the top and handcraft a line that I can use with 'wget' or similar
programs, take a look at the html sources and then 'wget' the image by
hand if I really want it. But as it seems to me, the images you are
talking about are not there for being looked at anyway, so I personally
would not bother taking the effort.


Sorry if this sounds like ranting/trolling around, but digital 
watermarking has never worked, it does not work and it will never work;
well, it will maybe work if you blackbox every piece of hard- and software
of every person on earth and seal it shut and then threaten to kill them
if they even think about circumvent the protection.

The logic behind it is flawed. Don't waste your time on it.


hope that helps,

thorsten

--

thorsten fischer : frosch (at) derfrosch (dot) de

hostien in groesseren mengen sind schwer zu beschaffen



From winter at freytagberndt.at  Thu Aug 16 02:43:23 2001
From: winter at freytagberndt.at (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Winter_Andr=E9as_M=2E?=)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:43:23 +0200
Subject: AW: [mapserver-users] watermarking
Message-ID: <21F248EF8A6EA4458772E0D7EF65B046058943@FBMAIL.freytagberndt.net>

unsubscribe mapserver-users winter at freytagberndt.at
end


From matt at aruke.com  Thu Aug 16 03:38:17 2001
From: matt at aruke.com (Matt Carlson)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 19:38:17 +0900
Subject: [mapserver-users] watermarking
References: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10108161026430.2773-100000@bolero>
Message-ID: <001501c1263f$90fa9160$0400a8c0@matt>

Thorsten,

thanks for your input.

could you please tell that to our marketing manager... in japanese :)  i
agree.  the reason i wrote the list is because i myself couldn't see it
happening either.  'it' being a graphic changing states as it's saved from
the browser.

heck, even if it's not a gif ,png, or jpeg,  for example a vector image in a
java applet, if i can see the map with my eyes i can take a screenshot and
copy and paste it into to photoshop.

anyway, after spending a few hours on this issue i'm going to put this one
to rest for a while.

regards,
matt


----- Original Message -----
From: "Thorsten Fischer" <frosch at cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: "Matt Carlson" <matt at aruke.com>
Cc: "Lyndon Zimmermann" <lyndon.zimmermann at adelaide.edu.au>;
<mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 5:49 PM
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] watermarking


> On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Matt Carlson wrote:
>
> > here's my solution for a baseline copywright embedded on the map using
perl
> > mapscript.  company-logo points to a pixmap symbol in my markerset file.
>
> There is no reliable way to watermark digital data, though there is
> nothing bad in putting a company's logo on a picture.
>
>
> Watermarking of digital data does not work. Watermarking of digital data
> does not work. Watermarking of digital data does not work. No matter what
> the manufacturer of your watermarking scheme tells you: it does not work.
>
> At least it does not prevent the copying process itself; if it were
> reliable, it would ease tracking of copyright violators, but even that
> part ... does not work.
>
> That said: in my humbleth opinion, it's evil. It's digital data, it's in
> its nature to be copied.
>
> > what i'm looking for is some way to prevent people from right clicking
the
> > map gif image on the browser screen and saving the map image onto thier
> > desktop.
>
> Hum???
>
> When the image is created (by copying things around and finally creating
> a copy to the disk), the webserver copies it to the socket that
> belongs to the tcp connection: first copy. Any point inbetween that
> routes your packet copies it from one point to another to send it, but I
> will skip those here. Then the client takes it and copies it into memory:
> second copy. Most probably, it gets cached as well: third copy. I left out
> several steps, but the client has several copies already created.
>
> If you do not want your data to be copied, don't copy it yourself and
> leave it alone.
>
> > the effect i'm wanting is when someone does save the map image,
> > somehow an embedded image shows up with a big copywright message in the
> > middle.  i thought company's like digimarc and ewatermark were doing
> > something similair to this??
>
> You can do something similar using javascript to trap mouse events and
> react according to them. Some porn sites do it, take a look at them. But
> you will only shut the most unskilled persons out who cannot turn off
> javascript in their browser.
>
>
> And even if you manage to do this, I can still see the URL of your page
> on the top and handcraft a line that I can use with 'wget' or similar
> programs, take a look at the html sources and then 'wget' the image by
> hand if I really want it. But as it seems to me, the images you are
> talking about are not there for being looked at anyway, so I personally
> would not bother taking the effort.
>
>
> Sorry if this sounds like ranting/trolling around, but digital
> watermarking has never worked, it does not work and it will never work;
> well, it will maybe work if you blackbox every piece of hard- and software
> of every person on earth and seal it shut and then threaten to kill them
> if they even think about circumvent the protection.
>
> The logic behind it is flawed. Don't waste your time on it.
>
>
> hope that helps,
>
> thorsten
>
> --
>
> thorsten fischer : frosch (at) derfrosch (dot) de
>
> hostien in groesseren mengen sind schwer zu beschaffen
>
>



From adoyle at intl-interfaces.com  Thu Aug 16 05:53:27 2001
From: adoyle at intl-interfaces.com (Allan Doyle)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:53:27 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] watermarking
References: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10108161026430.2773-100000@bolero> <001501c1263f$90fa9160$0400a8c0@matt>
Message-ID: <3B7BC247.5D31A988@intl-interfaces.com>

I think people expect more of digital technology than they do of paper
technology. If I buy a paper map that has a copyright on it, what keeps
me from copying it? Nothing but my honesty or the possible legal
ramifications will stop me.

If I buy digital map data, I have to sign a license agreement, depending
on the vendor these can be quite restrictive. Again, what's to keep me
from copying it? The same thing. Honesty or fear of repercussions if I
breach the agreement.

So, if you provide a map to a large number of people via the internet,
in an easy-to-copy format, you have to rely on the recipients to "do the
right thing". In the internet, the expectation is largely that what I
see on my screen is mine to reproduce or reuse. (This is technically not
really even the case since even if there is no copyright statement, the
author of the content is still the copyright holder).

Given the expectation on the part of the casual user that what's there
is to be reused, I think Thorsten's answer is correct. So you need a
different strategy.

Either you only provide material to the end user that you are willing to
let become free, or you make sure you inform the end user about the
restrictions. Your idea of a popup would be a start in that direction.

A strategy that could take you down a middle road is to save your
high-value information for "premium" customers. I.e. don't provide your
best maps to the free users. Make the high-end people sign an agreement
or make them pay subscriptions. I would guess that most of those people
will be honest enough to not churn out lots of copies. Just as I
wouldn't copy pages off my atlas and give them away en masse.

At the same time, assume that there will be some "leakage" of your
content. The best way to deal with that is to make your premium content
always be better than even the leaked content. By way of example, I can
get stock market data for free but it's 20 minutes old. Who cares if I
copy that and send it out? It only becomes more worthless over time. Map
data changes too. If you can keep refreshing your data, you provide more
value to those who have your most recent maps. In the extreme, a company
that could provide real-time updates to road conditions would be able to
sell that data to emergency response organizations and would be able to
give it away a day later because the next days' data would be better.

I realize that not all map data can be treated this way, but I think
people get hung up on one way of thinking and forget that there are
alternatives.

I also believe that you're always better off working out a scheme
whereby you adapt to the circumstances rather than fight them. Trying to
keep the maps from getting copied is futile. Figuring out how to make
enough money to keep providing maps even while they are being copied is
the way to go. (By the way, think about MapQuest - they are not selling
maps, they are selling a channel to large advertisers that helps them
get at customers who may be looking for services in unfamiliar places).

Good luck figuring out what to do!

	Allan


Matt Carlson wrote:
> 
> Thorsten,
> 
> thanks for your input.
> 
> could you please tell that to our marketing manager... in japanese :)  i
> agree.  the reason i wrote the list is because i myself couldn't see it
> happening either.  'it' being a graphic changing states as it's saved from
> the browser.
> 
> heck, even if it's not a gif ,png, or jpeg,  for example a vector image in a
> java applet, if i can see the map with my eyes i can take a screenshot and
> copy and paste it into to photoshop.
> 
> anyway, after spending a few hours on this issue i'm going to put this one
> to rest for a while.
> 
> regards,
> matt
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thorsten Fischer" <frosch at cs.tu-berlin.de>
> To: "Matt Carlson" <matt at aruke.com>
> Cc: "Lyndon Zimmermann" <lyndon.zimmermann at adelaide.edu.au>;
> <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 5:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] watermarking
> 
> > On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Matt Carlson wrote:
> >
> > > here's my solution for a baseline copywright embedded on the map using
> perl
> > > mapscript.  company-logo points to a pixmap symbol in my markerset file.
> >
> > There is no reliable way to watermark digital data, though there is
> > nothing bad in putting a company's logo on a picture.
> >
> >
> > Watermarking of digital data does not work. Watermarking of digital data
> > does not work. Watermarking of digital data does not work. No matter what
> > the manufacturer of your watermarking scheme tells you: it does not work.
> >
> > At least it does not prevent the copying process itself; if it were
> > reliable, it would ease tracking of copyright violators, but even that
> > part ... does not work.
> >
> > That said: in my humbleth opinion, it's evil. It's digital data, it's in
> > its nature to be copied.
> >
> > > what i'm looking for is some way to prevent people from right clicking
> the
> > > map gif image on the browser screen and saving the map image onto thier
> > > desktop.
> >
> > Hum???
> >
> > When the image is created (by copying things around and finally creating
> > a copy to the disk), the webserver copies it to the socket that
> > belongs to the tcp connection: first copy. Any point inbetween that
> > routes your packet copies it from one point to another to send it, but I
> > will skip those here. Then the client takes it and copies it into memory:
> > second copy. Most probably, it gets cached as well: third copy. I left out
> > several steps, but the client has several copies already created.
> >
> > If you do not want your data to be copied, don't copy it yourself and
> > leave it alone.
> >
> > > the effect i'm wanting is when someone does save the map image,
> > > somehow an embedded image shows up with a big copywright message in the
> > > middle.  i thought company's like digimarc and ewatermark were doing
> > > something similair to this??
> >
> > You can do something similar using javascript to trap mouse events and
> > react according to them. Some porn sites do it, take a look at them. But
> > you will only shut the most unskilled persons out who cannot turn off
> > javascript in their browser.
> >
> >
> > And even if you manage to do this, I can still see the URL of your page
> > on the top and handcraft a line that I can use with 'wget' or similar
> > programs, take a look at the html sources and then 'wget' the image by
> > hand if I really want it. But as it seems to me, the images you are
> > talking about are not there for being looked at anyway, so I personally
> > would not bother taking the effort.
> >
> >
> > Sorry if this sounds like ranting/trolling around, but digital
> > watermarking has never worked, it does not work and it will never work;
> > well, it will maybe work if you blackbox every piece of hard- and software
> > of every person on earth and seal it shut and then threaten to kill them
> > if they even think about circumvent the protection.
> >
> > The logic behind it is flawed. Don't waste your time on it.
> >
> >
> > hope that helps,
> >
> > thorsten
> >
> > --
> >
> > thorsten fischer : frosch (at) derfrosch (dot) de
> >
> > hostien in groesseren mengen sind schwer zu beschaffen
> >
> >

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Allan Doyle                         http://www.intl-interfaces.com
adoyle at intl-interfaces.com


From chuynh at ideorlando.org  Thu Aug 16 06:50:10 2001
From: chuynh at ideorlando.org (Chan B. Huynh)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 09:50:10 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Mapplet document.mapserv has no properties
In-Reply-To: <3B7B0707.E29A110E@geoplan.ufl.edu>
Message-ID: <KCEJLLAIGOFFEIFJJOCIIEFACAAA.chuynh@ideorlando.org>

hi Christine,
seems like i cannot get to the website.
Maybe attach us the source code


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
[mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu]On Behalf Of lc
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 7:35 PM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: [mapserver-users] Mapplet document.mapserv has no properties


Hello all,

I need help with mapplet.  I'm getting the following error message when I
try to drag-zoom:
    "Applet mapplet document.mapserv has no properties"

where "document.mapserv" is the form that's submitted to the mapserver app.

Please check out the following site:
http://geneva/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/var/www/html/download/mapserv/maps/doqq.m
ap&layers=cntbnd+hydros&mapext=370000+360000+793990.758+59428.989&amp;mode=b
rowse

and its source code, and let me know if you have ideas on remedying this
problem.

Thank you.
Regards,
Christine McCain
Research Assistant
Geoplan / University of FL



From pnaciona at gis.umn.edu  Thu Aug 16 07:07:05 2001
From: pnaciona at gis.umn.edu (Pericles S. Nacionales)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 09:07:05 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] watermarking
In-Reply-To: <000901c125fa$9adb9ca0$0400a8c0@matt>
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.21.0108160901130.1709925-100000@center.gis.umn.edu>

Matt,

You may not be able to watermark but you can put a copyright notice on
your images.  Just create a DEFAULT layer of your company logo; you can
position on the bottom or on top of your map.  I don't know the detail on
how to do this but you can check the mapfile reference.  Perhaps other
folks can shed more light about this.

Note: If you want the logo/copyright notice to be as unobtrusive as
possible, use light or faded colors.

-Perry


On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Matt Carlson wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> we are currently pursing a client that wishes to copywright thier images in
> case someone attempts to save a map from the browser.  i want to do
> something similar to what ewatermark.com is doing http://www.ewatermark.com
> with their visible watermark.  does anyone have experience in integrating
> something like this with mapserver?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Matt
> 



From tpoindex at nyx.net  Thu Aug 16 07:30:10 2001
From: tpoindex at nyx.net (Tom Poindexter)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:30:10 -0600
Subject: [mapserver-users] compilation
In-Reply-To: <997786105.3b7901f965e1e@imp.free.fr>; from jef.mony@free.fr on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:48:25PM +0200
References: <997786105.3b7901f965e1e@imp.free.fr>
Message-ID: <20010816083010.A25855@nyx10.nyx.net>


I've done some work on the configure script in the last few days and it's
checked into CVS.  

My French is not so good, could you translate the bash error message for
me?

It will also help greatly to know what machine on which you are compiling, and
which version of GD you have.

-Tom


On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:48:25PM +0200, Jean-Fran?ois MONY wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I try to compile the CVS version of mpaserver.
> I use ./configure --with-gd --with-tiff --with-jpeg --without-ttf --with-
> php=/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/php-4.0.4pl1 --with-apx (wich was good with mapserver 4)
> 
> and I have this message :
> bash: ./configure: Aucun fichier ou repertoire de ce type
> 
> same message with ./configure --help
> 
> configure is 777 and really exist !
> 
> An idea ??
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jean-Fran?ois MONY - jef.mony at free.fr
> Parc naturel r?gional de Lorraine
> Responsable informatique/SIG
> tel : 03-83-84-06-37
> fax : 03-81-33-60
> D?tach? aupr?s du laboratoire de phyto?cologie de l'universit? de Metz
> tel : 03-87-37-84-05
> fax : 

-- 
Tom Poindexter
tpoindex at nyx.net
http://www.nyx.net/~tpoindex/


From pilya at asd.kiev.ua  Thu Aug 16 07:22:34 2001
From: pilya at asd.kiev.ua (Andrey piliperz)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 17:22:34 +0300
Subject: [mapserver-users] building Mapserver --with-postgis
Message-ID: <20010816172234.A4776@asd.kiev.ua>

Hi!
I am tring to build mapserver (CVS version) with postgis support,
but when I run ./mapserv the next message appears:
./mapserv: error while loading shared libraries: libpq.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I was configuring mapserver with --with-postgis=/usr/local/bin/pg_config option
and it builds without problems.

Postgres and postgis are set up and working normally.

What may be wrong?
(mapserver 3.4 doesn't show this message)

Thanx.

-- 
regards
Andrey S. Pilipetz
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From Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca  Thu Aug 16 08:11:04 2001
From: Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca (Doyon, Jean-Francois)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:11:04 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Problems with latest CVS Version - TrueType support
Message-ID: <7CDD7B94357FD5119E800002A537C46E22FB88@s5-ccr-r1.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca>

Hello,

I just got and compiled the latest CVS and am having some trouble!

It seems to keep choking on anything with the word "TRUETYPE" in it!

At first it was in my annotation layers with TrueType labeling, I would get
an error like :

getSymbol(): Symbol definition error. (8):(221) 

This would point to the line "TYPE TRUETYPE" within a LABEL object within a
CLASS ... (The first "T" of "TYPE" to be exact).

So I removed ALL the annotation layers just to at least to render a map,
BUT, now it chokes on the exact same line in my symbol definitions!

Here's an example of such a layer:

LAYER
  NAME cities1
  TYPE ANNOTATION
  STATUS DEFAULT
  DATA pop15_pt
  MINSCALE 10000000
  MAXSCALE 20000000
  
  LABELITEM "name_commo"
   
  CLASS
    SIZE 6
    COLOR 0 0 0
    SYMBOL 'city'
    LABEL
      COLOR 0 0 0   
      OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
      TYPE TRUETYPE
      SIZE 8
      FONT arial
      POSITION AUTO
      WRAP " " 
    END
  END
END

And such a symbol:

SYMBOL
  NAME 'natcap'
  TYPE TRUETYPE
  FONT geo
  FILLED
  ANTIALIAS
  CHARACTER "&#114;"
END

Any ideas??? Could the CVS version be broken ? configure picked up on my
FreeType library no problem as well, and is indeed linked to it (Checked
with ldd).

Thanks you,


Jean-Fran?ois Doyon
Internet Service Development and Systems Support
GeoAccess Division
Canadian Center for Remote Sensing
Natural Resources Canada
http://atlas.gc.ca
Phone: (613) 992-4902
Fax: (613) 947-2410



From warmerdam at pobox.com  Thu Aug 16 08:24:19 2001
From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:24:19 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] building Mapserver --with-postgis
References: <20010816172234.A4776@asd.kiev.ua>
Message-ID: <3B7BE5A3.6030604@pobox.com>

Andrey piliperz wrote:
> Hi!
> I am tring to build mapserver (CVS version) with postgis support,
> but when I run ./mapserv the next message appears:
> ./mapserv: error while loading shared libraries: libpq.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> I was configuring mapserver with --with-postgis=/usr/local/bin/pg_config option
> and it builds without problems.
> 
> Postgres and postgis are set up and working normally.
> 
> What may be wrong?
> (mapserver 3.4 doesn't show this message)

Andrey,

What does "pg_config --libdir" report?  Is the reported directory in your
LD_LIBRARY_PATH?  If not you will get the above error.

Best regards,

-- 
---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com
light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Programmer for Rent



From christym at geoplan.ufl.edu  Thu Aug 16 10:17:20 2001
From: christym at geoplan.ufl.edu (lc)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:17:20 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Mapplet document.mapserv has no properties
References: <KCEJLLAIGOFFEIFJJOCIIEFACAAA.chuynh@ideorlando.org>
Message-ID: <3B7C0020.552032D5@geoplan.ufl.edu>

Hey, thanks for the reply, Chan.

I've attached the source code for my html template.  In it you can see the
recommended/necessary changes for implementing the mapplet:

1. named the FORM that is sent to the mapserver app.
This is the same name that's refered to in the mapplet_apply function.

2. added the mapplet_apply and mapplet_error functions

3. added the hidden variables: imgxy and imgbox

4. replaced the output map image (<img src= ...>) with the applet
definition (<applet codebase=......>)

Also, here's another link to my mapserver site:
http://geneva.geoplan.ufl.edu/download/mapserv/htmltemplates/doqq_init.html
I hope that this one will work for you.  Please let me know if it does or doesn't work.

Oh and just to reiterate, I'm getting the following error message when I try
to drag zoom on the applet map image:
    Applet mapplet document.mapserv has no properties

which of course is referring to my FORM, "mapserv".

Thanks a bunch,
Christine


"Chan B. Huynh" wrote:

> hi Christine,
> seems like i cannot get to the website.
> Maybe attach us the source code
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I need help with mapplet.  I'm getting the following error message when I
> try to drag-zoom:
>     "Applet mapplet document.mapserv has no properties"
>
> where "document.mapserv" is the form that's submitted to the mapserver app.
>
> Please check out the following site:
> http://geneva/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/var/www/html/download/mapserv/maps/doqq.m
> ap&layers=cntbnd+hydros&mapext=370000+360000+793990.758+59428.989&amp;mode=b
> rowse
>
> and its source code, and let me know if you have ideas on remedying this
> problem.
>
> Thank you.
> Regards,
> Christine McCain
> Research Assistant
> Geoplan / University of FL
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From LBallard at YesVirginia.org  Thu Aug 16 11:05:45 2001
From: LBallard at YesVirginia.org (Ballard,Lowell)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:05:45 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Mapserver v. 3.5 with SDE support
Message-ID: <509989F9E1D38D47ADA73ED9CF5BF32A16CEC6@communications>


Sort of slammed right now but I can give you the quickie SDE compilation I
did on RedHat 7.1:

1. put in your /etc/services file a line for the SDE service (e.g., esri_sde
5151/tcp)

2. obtain the SDE client libraries for Linux or whatever from the CDs (note
version e.g., 8.0 or 8.1)

3. when you configure SDE you will need to include 2 things:

--with-sde[=DIR]        Include ESRI SDE support (DIR is SDE's install dir).
--with-sde-version[=VERSION NUMBER]        Set ESRI SDE verion number
(Default is 80).

The first tells mapserv where those client libraries are on your hard drive

The second tells it what version to compile (i.e., did you use the client
libraries from the 8.0.x disc or the 8.1 disc).

In your .map file to access SDE layers do this:

LAYER
  NAME sites
  TYPE POLYGON
  CONNECTION "matoaka,esri_sde,gisdb,data,PASSWORD"
  CONNECTIONTYPE sde
  DATA "sites,shape"
#  DATA va_sites
  STATUS ON
  CLASSITEM "site_no"
  LABELITEM "site_no"
  SYMBOLSCALE 100000
  MAXSCALE 100000
  LABELMAXSCALE 35000
  HEADER sites_header.html
  CLASS
    NAME "Sites"
    EXPRESSION /./
    COLOR 161 167 135
    TEMPLATE sites.html
...............................................
.............................
..........etc.

where shape is the field in the SDE/Oracle/etc. database.

Hope that helps....





-----Original Message-----
From: Pericles S. Nacionales [mailto:pnaciona at gis.umn.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 12:01 PM
To: Maul, Andreas-Alexander
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Mapserver v. 3.5 with SDE support

Andreas,

I will look into getting ArcSDE installed on one of my Windows
machine.  Unfortunately, as much as I would like to include SDE in the
win32 binary package, I can't do it soon enough.  I'm out of town right
now and will be gone for the rest of August and most of September.  If you
wantthis functionality ASAP, perhaps someone in the list can give it to
you.  Also, it would be nice if anyone can document how they compiled SDE
into MapServer.

-Perry


On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Maul, Andreas-Alexander wrote:

> Hi,
> is it possible that the mapserver version 3.5 nightly build for win32
could
> be compiled with SDE support? I would greatly appreciate it.
> Regards,
> Andreas
> 


From christym at geoplan.ufl.edu  Thu Aug 16 11:09:53 2001
From: christym at geoplan.ufl.edu (lc)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:09:53 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] mapplet form has no properties
Message-ID: <3B7C0C71.48520A2B@geoplan.ufl.edu>

Hey, thanks for the reply, Chan.

I've attached the source code for my html template.  In it you can see the
recommended/necessary changes for implementing the mapplet:

1. named the FORM that is sent to the mapserver app.
This is the same name that's refered to in the mapplet_apply function.

2. added the mapplet_apply and mapplet_error functions

3. added the hidden variables: imgxy and imgbox

4. replaced the output map image (<img src= ...>) with the applet
definition (<applet codebase=......>)

Also, here's another link to my mapserver site:
http://geneva.geoplan.ufl.edu/download/mapserv/htmltemplates/doqq_init.html
I hope that this one will work for you.  Please let me know if it does or doesn't work.

Oh and just to reiterate, I'm getting the following error message when I try
to drag zoom on the applet map image:
    Applet mapplet document.mapserv has no properties

which of course is referring to my FORM, "mapserv".

Thanks a bunch,
Christine
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<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
   td { font-size: 10pt; font-family: sans-serif; } 
   .theTitle { font-size: 20pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: Times; }
   .aSel { font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; font-family: sans-serif; }
   select { font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal; font-family: sans-serif; }
   h5 { font-size: 13pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: Times; }
   a { color: black; }
   .indent { text-indent: 15px; }
   .colorMe { background-color: white; }
   .button { position: relative; left: 5px; }
</style>   

<script language="JavaScript">
   function mapplet_apply(name, minx, miny, maxx, maxy, redraw) {
      document.mapserv.imgbox.value = minx + " " + miny + " " + maxx + " " + maxy;
      document.mapserv.imgxy.value = minx + " " + miny;
   }

   function mapplet_error(message) {
      alert(message);
   }
</script>
</head>


<body bgcolor="white">

<div style="position: absolute; left: 30; top: 10">
<table bgcolor="white" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
    <td class="theTitle" bgcolor="white" colspan="3" height="26" width="800" valign="center" align="left"> FGDL Data Download</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <FORM NAME="form0">
    <td class="aSel" bgcolor="#e0e0e0" colspan="3" height="42" width="800" valign="center" align="center" NOWRAP>
    Category:<font size=-1>
       <SELECT NAME="sel_cat" size="1">
          <OPTION VALUE="0">State
	  <OPTION VALUE="1">Coast
	  <OPTION VALUE="2" selected>County
	  <OPTION VALUE="3">Tax Tables
       </SELECT></font>
       &nbsp;&nbsp;Select By:<font size=-1>
       <SELECT NAME="sel_by" size="1">
          <OPTION VALUE="0">County
	  <OPTION VALUE="1" selected>DOQQ Extents
	  <OPTION VALUE="2">7.5 Minute Quads
	  <OPTION VALUE="3">Aerial Photo Extents
       </SELECT></font>
       &nbsp;&nbsp;Available Layers:<font size=-1>
       <SELECT NAME="avail" size="1">
          <OPTION VALUE="0">Digital Ortho Quarter Quads
       </SELECT></font>
    </td>
    </form>
  </tr>
  <tr><td bgcolor="white" colspan="3" height="5">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>

  <FORM name="mapserv" method="GET" action="../../../cgi-bin/mapserv">
  <input type="hidden" name="map" value="[map]">
  <input type="hidden" name="imgext" value="[mapext]">
  <input type="hidden" name="imgbox" value="-1 -1 -1 -1">
  <input type="hidden" name="imgxy" value="199.5 199.5">
  
  <tr>
    <td rowspan="4" height="400" width="400" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="white">
       <applet codebase="../../mapserver/java/mapplet" code="mapplet.class" width="400" height="400" name="mapplet" MAYSCRIPT>
          <param name="image" value="[img]">
	  <param name="jitter" value="10">
	  <param name="thickness" value="2">
	  <param name="color" value="yellow">
       </applet>
    </td>   
    <td bgcolor="white" rowspan="5" width="30">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td height="200" width="250" valign="top" align="left" bgcolor="white"><h5>reference layers</h5>

       <input type="checkbox" class="indent" name="layer" value="doqq_index" [doqq_index_check]> <img src="../download/mapserv/legend/doqq_leg.png"><a href="http://www.fgdl.org/fgdldocs/metadata/html/doqq_index.htm"> DOQQ Extents</a><br>
       <input type="checkbox" class="indent" name="layer" value="cntbnd" [cntbnd_check]> <img src="../download/mapserv/legend/county_leg.png"><a href="http://www.fgdl.org/fgdldocs/metadata/html/cntbnd.htm"> County Boundaries</a><br>
       <input type="checkbox" class="indent" name="layer" value="majrds" [majrds_check]> <img src="../download/mapserv/legend/majrds_leg.png"> <a href="http://www.fgdl.org/fgdldocs/metadata/html/majrds.htm">  Major Roads</a><br>
       <input type="checkbox" class="indent" name="layer" value="hydros" [hydros_check]> <img src="../download/mapserv/legend/hydros_leg.png"> <a href="http://www.fgdl.org/fgdldocs/metadata/html/hydros.htm">  Hydrography</a><br>
       <input type="checkbox" class="indent" name="layer" value="doqq" [doqq_check]> [ * ] <a
       href="http://www.fgdl.org/fgdldocs/metadata/html/doqq.htm">  DOQQs</a><br><br>
       <font size=-1><input type="submit" class="indent" value="Redraw Map"></font>

    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="250" height="100" valign="top" align="left"><h5>map tools</h5>
    <img class="indent" src="../../download/mapserv/dragzoom/pan3.gif">&nbsp;&nbsp;
    <img src="../../download/mapserv/dragzoom/zoom2.gif">&nbsp;&nbsp;
    <img src="../../download/mapserv/dragzoom/prev_ext2.gif">&nbsp;&nbsp;
    <img src="../../download/mapserv/dragzoom/fullextent2.gif">&nbsp;&nbsp;
    <img src="../../download/mapserv/dragzoom/info2.gif"><br></td>
  </tr>  
  <tr>
    <td height="50" width="250" valign="top" align="left"><h5>selection</h5></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="400" height="100" valign="top" align="left"><h5>navigation and logo</h5></td>
    <td width="250" height="100" valign="top" align="left"><input type="submit" value="Submit Selections"></td>
    </form>
  </tr>
</table>  
</div>

</body>
</html>

From chuynh at ideorlando.org  Thu Aug 16 11:16:22 2001
From: chuynh at ideorlando.org (Chan B. Huynh)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:16:22 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Mapplet document.mapserv has no properties
In-Reply-To: <3B7B0707.E29A110E@geoplan.ufl.edu>
Message-ID: <KCEJLLAIGOFFEIFJJOCIIEFCCAAA.chuynh@ideorlando.org>

Christine,
I still cannot get to the new url you provided later.  It said "page cannot
be display".
However, i went ahead and look at the html template you attached.

Few suggestions you might want to try:

1/ <param name="image" value="http://[HOST][img]"> instead of <param
name="image" value="[img]">
Does your image ever come up without specifing the hostname?
2/ try to put mapplet.class and evalThread.class in the same directory as
the template and see if it works.
3/ not sure what's "applet mapplet document.mapserv has no properties"
means.  Was you able to drag a box?
when is this error occurs?  Right after you drag a box or after you drag a
box and hit "Enter"?



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
[mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu]On Behalf Of lc
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 7:35 PM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: [mapserver-users] Mapplet document.mapserv has no properties


Hello all,

I need help with mapplet.  I'm getting the following error message when I
try to drag-zoom:
    "Applet mapplet document.mapserv has no properties"

where "document.mapserv" is the form that's submitted to the mapserver app.

Please check out the following site:
http://geneva/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/var/www/html/download/mapserv/maps/doqq.m
ap&layers=cntbnd+hydros&mapext=370000+360000+793990.758+59428.989&amp;mode=b
rowse

and its source code, and let me know if you have ideas on remedying this
problem.

Thank you.
Regards,
Christine McCain
Research Assistant
Geoplan / University of FL



From cnielsen at co.tillamook.or.us  Thu Aug 16 11:20:12 2001
From: cnielsen at co.tillamook.or.us (Chad Nielsen)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:20:12 -0700
Subject: [mapserver-users] label symbol size vs. label font size
Message-ID: <000d01c12680$169f90f0$8f05a7cd@co.tillamook.or.us>

I'm having trouble adjusting the size of my highway shield symbols relative
to the label font size. Seems I can only make the highway shields bigger if
I make the font bigger, i.e. by increasing the SIZE attribute of the LABEL
object. Problem is I have 3-digit highway numbers which makes the text go
outside the shield boundary. If I increase the SIZE attribute of the CLASS
object nothing happens. How can I make the shield bigger without making the
label font bigger? Or, is there some other trick to getting 3-digits to fit
inside a shield? here is what I have in my map file:

LAYER
      NAME highwayshields
      DATA 'e:\gisweb\data\transportation\shapes\nwohwy'
      STATUS ON
      TYPE ANNOTATION
      LABELITEM "HWYNUM"
       CLASS
	   COLOR 0 0 0
	   SIZE 18
         SYMBOL 3
         OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
         LABEL
            SIZE 10
            MINDISTANCE 200
	      COLOR 0 0 0
	      BACKGROUNDCOLOR -1 -1 -1
	      TYPE TRUETYPE
	      FONT verdana-bold
	      POSITION CC
	    END #LABEL
       END # CLASS
END # LAYER

TIA,
Chad

Chad M. Nielsen, GIS Programmer/Analyst
Tillamook County Performance Partnership (TCPP)
Tillamook Coastal Watershed Resource Center (TCWRC)

  GIS:   http://gisweb.co.tillamook.or.us
 TCPP:   http://www.co.tillamook.or.us/gov/Estuary/homepage.htm
TCWRC:   http://www.tcwrc.org




From jimburnett at ntelos.net  Thu Aug 16 12:15:04 2001
From: jimburnett at ntelos.net (Jim Burnett)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 15:15:04 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] reference map  PHP/Mapscript
References: <007701c125b2$57269fc0$2f01a8c0@morpheus>
Message-ID: <011e01c12687$c3d63380$2f01a8c0@morpheus>

ttt
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Burnett 
  To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 1:47 PM
  Subject: [mapserver-users] reference map PHP/Mapscript


  MapServer/Mapscript 3.5  Night build   PHP4.0.5



  OK, The documentation says I have to use a GIF file for the reference map, but I only get the little red X. I switched back to jpg, and my ref map comes up, but I dont get a box for my current extent.  Has anyone got the refrence map working without using GIF? Sample code?

  thanks

  -jim

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From pramsey at refractions.net  Thu Aug 16 13:46:56 2001
From: pramsey at refractions.net (Paul Ramsey)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:46:56 -0700
Subject: [mapserver-users] WMS and PROJ
References: <007701c125b2$57269fc0$2f01a8c0@morpheus> <011e01c12687$c3d63380$2f01a8c0@morpheus>
Message-ID: <3B7C3140.E429496B@refractions.net>

When I set up my WMS server with projections, it correctly creates
<LatLonBoundingBox> entries for the layers. The <LatLonBoundingBox> for
the whole server is based on the EXTENTS given in the map file: if one
of my layers has an extent larger than the EXTENT in the map file, I can
have an overall extent smaller than one of my layer extents... does the
spec have anything to say about this minor inconsistency? Is the overall
<LatLonBoundingBox> supposed to be the superset of all layer extents? 


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From dmoffett at walnutsoft.com  Thu Aug 16 13:36:41 2001
From: dmoffett at walnutsoft.com (David Moffett)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:36:41 -0600
Subject: [mapserver-users] SVG
Message-ID: <200108162046.PAA12071@lists.gis.umn.edu>

Hello,

I am thinking about adding SVG ( Scalar Vector Graphics ) to mapserver.  
My questions are:

1. Is someone already doing this?  There was some talk on the mailing in 
Oct 2000 but I  did not see a conclusion.
2. Is it a good idea?  I think it is since we would like to use it 
ourselves.
3. What approach would be best.  I have looked at the code and have some 
ideas but I am a far cry from an expert on mapserver.

If I can come up with a good solution I will release back to the 
mapserver community.  Also I would be glad to pitch in and help anyone 
that has started with solution.  I will even try to comment the 
code.  :-)

Thank you,
David


David B. Moffett
Walnut Software, LLC.


From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Thu Aug 16 14:40:59 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 17:40:59 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] WMS and PROJ
References: <007701c125b2$57269fc0$2f01a8c0@morpheus> <011e01c12687$c3d63380$2f01a8c0@morpheus> <3B7C3140.E429496B@refractions.net>
Message-ID: <3B7C3DEB.3E559FD0@dmsolutions.ca>

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> 
> When I set up my WMS server with projections, it correctly creates
> <LatLonBoundingBox> entries for the layers. The <LatLonBoundingBox> for
> the whole server is based on the EXTENTS given in the map file: if one
> of my layers has an extent larger than the EXTENT in the map file, I can
> have an overall extent smaller than one of my layer extents... does the
> spec have anything to say about this minor inconsistency? Is the overall
> <LatLonBoundingBox> supposed to be the superset of all layer extents?
> 

I think it would make sense that the root layer's bounding box should be
a superset of the bounding box of all the layers in the mapfile.  I
haven't seen a mention of this in the spec but I would think that it is
implied since it just makes sense.

This being said, in the MapServer case the root layer's bounding box is
derived from the MAP EXTENT as you pointed so it is up to the person
setting up the mapfile to make sure the global extents are valid.  I
guess we could have MapServer scan the extents of all layers but it
never looked necessary to do so since the info is already there in the
mapfile.

About layer extents, the default behavior for vector layers is that
MapServer will look at the individual layers and open the data source to
fetch the extents.  If that default behavior doesn't work or gives
extents that are too big, then you can use the "wms_extent" layer
metadata to specify your own extents.  The use of the wms_extent layer
metadata is currently required for raster layer since MapServer
currently has no way to fetch raster extents automagically (on the ToDo
list).


BTW, talking of WMS... we put the last touches to the WMS-HOWTO today...
we were waiting until it's available on the UMN website to announce it
but I can't wait... and I know lots of you can't wait either... so for a
sneak preview, go to:
  http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/tmp/WMS-HOWTO.html

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.



From AWOOLEY at mountainland.org  Thu Aug 16 14:30:09 2001
From: AWOOLEY at mountainland.org (ANDREW WOOLEY)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 15:30:09 -0600
Subject: [mapserver-users] SVG
Message-ID: <sb7bead5.058@email.state.ut.us>

I think this is a good idea.  I wonder if this will allow the web user to print out better quality maps than just a JPG or PNG.  Is that the case?  If so, I would really welcome such an addition.

Andrew Wooley
GIS Operations Manager
Mountainland Association of Governments
Orem, UT

phone:  801.229.3844
fax:       801.229.3801
email:   awooley at mountainland.org

>>> David Moffett <dmoffett at walnutsoft.com> 08/16 2:36 PM >>>
Hello,

I am thinking about adding SVG ( Scalar Vector Graphics ) to mapserver.  
My questions are:

1. Is someone already doing this?  There was some talk on the mailing in 
Oct 2000 but I  did not see a conclusion.
2. Is it a good idea?  I think it is since we would like to use it 
ourselves.
3. What approach would be best.  I have looked at the code and have some 
ideas but I am a far cry from an expert on mapserver.

If I can come up with a good solution I will release back to the 
mapserver community.  Also I would be glad to pitch in and help anyone 
that has started with solution.  I will even try to comment the 
code.  :-)

Thank you,
David


David B. Moffett
Walnut Software, LLC.



From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Thu Aug 16 15:34:20 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 18:34:20 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] SVG
References: <200108162046.PAA12071@lists.gis.umn.edu>
Message-ID: <3B7C4A6C.967CE008@dmsolutions.ca>

David Moffett wrote:
> 
> I am thinking about adding SVG ( Scalar Vector Graphics ) to mapserver.
> My questions are:
> 
> 1. Is someone already doing this?  There was some talk on the mailing in
> Oct 2000 but I  did not see a conclusion.
> 2. Is it a good idea?  I think it is since we would like to use it
> ourselves.
> 3. What approach would be best.  I have looked at the code and have some
> ideas but I am a far cry from an expert on mapserver.
> 


I'm not aware of anything that has been started on this front yet, but
we've had lots of interest expressed to have MapServer produce vector
output (SVG being only one possibility).  So if any of these projects
takes off then it's the kind of additions that we might get involved in.

Anyway, I think your idea is a good one, but I think it should be done
"the right way" in order for your work to be profitable in the long
run.  A bit like the kind of changes Steve did when SDE and OGR were
added, and which allowed the PostGIS guys to plug their driver with much
less efforts.

Basically that would mean redesigning important parts of the rendering
code in MapServer (and likely some of the mapfile stuff too) to make it
less GD-centric and be able to deal with various types of output.  If
this is done well for the SVG case then other output formats such as
GML, Flash, etc. can be added with much less efforts.

My 0.02$
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------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.



From rob at socialchange.net.au  Thu Aug 16 16:07:11 2001
From: rob at socialchange.net.au (Rob Atkinson)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:07:11 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] SVG
References: <200108162046.PAA12071@lists.gis.umn.edu>
Message-ID: <3B7C521F.2816340A@socialchange.net.au>


Logically better to support GML, then you can choose a GML to SVG stylesheet
at runtime if you wish.
(keep data model and presentation separate!)

Would be interested in feedback re performance - its on a long to-do list
for us.

Big issue with vector formats is always the unpredicatability of response
size in a network environment. Leads to interesting issues re generalisation
on the fly. In the past I have used the maxfeatures to limit mapserver time
rendering - the same concept might work but what if the client zooms in?

Rob Atkinson

David Moffett wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am thinking about adding SVG ( Scalar Vector Graphics ) to mapserver.
> My questions are:
>
> 1. Is someone already doing this?  There was some talk on the mailing in
> Oct 2000 but I  did not see a conclusion.
> 2. Is it a good idea?  I think it is since we would like to use it
> ourselves.
> 3. What approach would be best.  I have looked at the code and have some
> ideas but I am a far cry from an expert on mapserver.
>
> If I can come up with a good solution I will release back to the
> mapserver community.  Also I would be glad to pitch in and help anyone
> that has started with solution.  I will even try to comment the
> code.  :-)
>
> Thank you,
> David
>
> David B. Moffett
> Walnut Software, LLC.
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From pramsey at refractions.net  Thu Aug 16 16:26:58 2001
From: pramsey at refractions.net (Paul Ramsey)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 16:26:58 -0700
Subject: [mapserver-users] SVG
References: <sb7bead5.058@email.state.ut.us>
Message-ID: <3B7C56C2.2B63719D@refractions.net>

The goal should be, rather than "adding SVG", "abstracting the rendering
routines". That way one could also add a "render to PDF" option, or
"render to PostScript", as well as SVG. My guess is that it is a really,
really, big job, since there seem to be alot of GD-specific assumptions
in how Mapserver thinks about styles and line weights and stuff.

ANDREW WOOLEY wrote:
> 
> I think this is a good idea.  I wonder if this will allow the web user to print out better quality maps than just a JPG or PNG.  Is that the case?  If so, I would really welcome such an addition.
> 
> Andrew Wooley
> GIS Operations Manager
> Mountainland Association of Governments
> Orem, UT
> 
> phone:  801.229.3844
> fax:       801.229.3801
> email:   awooley at mountainland.org
> 
> >>> David Moffett <dmoffett at walnutsoft.com> 08/16 2:36 PM >>>
> Hello,
> 
> I am thinking about adding SVG ( Scalar Vector Graphics ) to mapserver.
> My questions are:
> 
> 1. Is someone already doing this?  There was some talk on the mailing in
> Oct 2000 but I  did not see a conclusion.
> 2. Is it a good idea?  I think it is since we would like to use it
> ourselves.
> 3. What approach would be best.  I have looked at the code and have some
> ideas but I am a far cry from an expert on mapserver.
> 
> If I can come up with a good solution I will release back to the
> mapserver community.  Also I would be glad to pitch in and help anyone
> that has started with solution.  I will even try to comment the
> code.  :-)
> 
> Thank you,
> David
> 
> David B. Moffett
> Walnut Software, LLC.

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     /
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     | Refractions Research
     | Email: pramsey at refractions.net
     | Phone: (250) 885-0632
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From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Thu Aug 16 16:41:31 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 19:41:31 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] SVG
References: <sb7bead5.058@email.state.ut.us> <3B7C56C2.2B63719D@refractions.net>
Message-ID: <3B7C5A2B.938572B9@dmsolutions.ca>

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> 
> The goal should be, rather than "adding SVG", "abstracting the rendering
> routines". That way one could also add a "render to PDF" option, or
> "render to PostScript", as well as SVG. 


You read my mind (you should receive my previous post via the listserv
in 4 or 5 hours. ;)


> My guess is that it is a really,
> really, big job, since there seem to be alot of GD-specific assumptions
> in how Mapserver thinks about styles and line weights and stuff.
> 

I agree... but imagine how boring life would be without these little
challenges!  ;)

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.


From zhox at yeah.net  Thu Aug 16 17:49:42 2001
From: zhox at yeah.net (Zhou Xu)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 8:49:42 +0800
Subject: [mapserver-users] SVG
Message-ID: <20010817010142.334691C25AB51@smtp.yeah.net>

I think it is very useful, because SVG can express much more styles even time-serial data. if you do that, I   appreciate it very much.

On 2001-8-16 14:36:00, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am thinking about adding SVG ( Scalar Vector Graphics ) to mapserver.  
>My questions are:
>
>1. Is someone already doing this?  There was some talk on the mailing in 
>Oct 2000 but I  did not see a conclusion.
>2. Is it a good idea?  I think it is since we would like to use it 
>ourselves.
>3. What approach would be best.  I have looked at the code and have some 
>ideas but I am a far cry from an expert on mapserver.
>
>If I can come up with a good solution I will release back to the 
>mapserver community.  Also I would be glad to pitch in and help anyone 
>that has started with solution.  I will even try to comment the 
>code.  :-)
>
>Thank you,
>David
>
>
>David B. Moffett
>Walnut Software, LLC.



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From mapserver at cubok.com  Thu Aug 16 18:20:40 2001
From: mapserver at cubok.com (Richard Ford)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 11:20:40 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Shapefiles
References: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10108161020200.2773-100000@bolero>
Message-ID: <008701c126ba$d43992c0$01bca8c0@Peach>

>
> A raster file is anything that is measured in width and height of pixels.
> Your mapserver is creating raster files as output, namely .png or .gif
> files. The most common raster file type to _read_ in GIS (and the only one
> that i have seen used so far) is .tif as there is a standard for
> geo-referencing those.
>
> There is no special format called 'raster'. The term 'raster' is used as
> opposite to 'vector'.
>
> I do not think that ArcIMS does not display raster images.
>

Someone on the GRASS list did mention that ArcIMS can't read in/load/import
ArcView raster files?

Cya,
Richard.



From drish at drish.net  Thu Aug 16 18:49:26 2001
From: drish at drish.net (Drew)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 11:49:26 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] extents/coords questions
Message-ID: <004401c126bf$1beeac00$0300000a@dhr>

1. What's the best way to get the extents of my map, I have 1000's of tiles
in a directory, and also a tileindex file. My current extents appear to be
off, as the bounding box on my reference map is way off.

2. How do I plot things on my map based on a list of 100 or so coordinates?
I'm not sure if there is any coordinate data in my shapefiles, and if there
is, what format it is in. How do I find out? Do I need to?


Thanks,
Drew




From drish at drish.net  Thu Aug 16 18:49:26 2001
From: drish at drish.net (Drew)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 11:49:26 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] extents/coords questions
Message-ID: <015701c126c2$62bd2b40$0300000a@dhr>

1. What's the best way to get the extents of my map, I have 1000's of tiles
in a directory, and also a tileindex file. My current extents appear to be
off, as the bounding box on my reference map is way off.

2. How do I plot things on my map based on a list of 100 or so coordinates?
I'm not sure if there is any coordinate data in my shapefiles, and if there
is, what format it is in. How do I find out? Do I need to?


Thanks,
Drew




From mapserver at cubok.com  Thu Aug 16 21:50:50 2001
From: mapserver at cubok.com (Richard Ford)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 14:50:50 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Grid Files??
Message-ID: <000d01c126d8$303cffe0$01bca8c0@Peach>

G'Day All,

Another question!  Is the use of GRID files made and/or used in
ArcView/ArcInfo supported in MapServer?  Or does one have to convert these
to other formats first?



Cheers,

Richard Ford.
richard at cubok.com   www.cubok.com

The views expressed here are solely my own and do not necessarily represent
those of my employer.




From mapserver at cubok.com  Thu Aug 16 22:01:10 2001
From: mapserver at cubok.com (Richard Ford)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:01:10 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Shapefiles
References: <200108141742.f7EHgVs15759@antonia.nn.cl>
Message-ID: <003801c126d9$a47c68e0$01bca8c0@Peach>

Where on earth do I get the Mapscript stuff to compile?

I can't find it anywhere on your site.


Richard.

> >
> > > > EXTENT 388107.634400379 5203120.88405952 500896.339019834
> > 5310243.30613897
> > >
> > > Is this extent correct?, you can use the perl script showextent.pl on
> > > the shape file to see if it is.
> > >
> > > (ie, perl showextent.pl shapefile on the directory where the shapefile
is)
> >
> >
*************************************************************************
> > [root at localhost risk_data]# perl showextent.pl disslv1.shp
> > Can't locate mapscript.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0
> > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
> > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at showextent.pl line 3.
> > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at showextent.pl line 3.
> >
**************************************************************************
> >
> > I take it, I need to install Map script?  I am using Mapserver 3.3.011
>
> yes, you need the perl version of mapscript installed for the script to
> work. It's very easy to compile and install.
>
> --
> V. <v at w.cl>
>



From mapserver at cubok.com  Thu Aug 16 22:10:19 2001
From: mapserver at cubok.com (Richard Ford)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:10:19 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Shapefiles
References: <200108141749.f7EHnZD16405@antonia.nn.cl>
Message-ID: <003e01c126da$e8cefd90$01bca8c0@Peach>

G'Day Vinko,

I have ArcView running and am looking at the files OK.

However, I can't get this "EXTENT" information.

I can see type ok but no extent?  Where should I look?

I would like to try the showextents script however I don't have pearl map
script and can't for the life of me find any info on downloading or
installing it.

Cheers,
Richard.





From trem at socialchange.net.au  Fri Aug 17 00:18:09 2001
From: trem at socialchange.net.au (Trem Stamp)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:18:09 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Tool for tiling images
Message-ID: <3B7CC531.7EDC1969@socialchange.net.au>

I am interested to know if there are any tools out there, that can slice
and dice images up into tiles, as well as generate world files to
accompany the tiled images (GIF or TIFF)? 

Thanks,

Trem


From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Fri Aug 17 05:59:17 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:59:17 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] extents/coords questions
References: <004401c126bf$1beeac00$0300000a@dhr>
Message-ID: <3B7D1525.ABC8185A@dmsolutions.ca>

Hi Drew,

Drew wrote:
> 
> 1. What's the best way to get the extents of my map, I have 1000's of tiles
> in a directory, and also a tileindex file. My current extents appear to be
> off, as the bounding box on my reference map is way off.
> 

Running OGRINFO on the tileindex file would return you the extent of the
tileindex which is also the extent of all your files.


> 2. How do I plot things on my map based on a list of 100 or so coordinates?
> I'm not sure if there is any coordinate data in my shapefiles, and if there
> is, what format it is in. How do I find out? Do I need to?
> 

Again, try OGRINFO to dump the contents of the shapefile and you'll see
if it's a point, line or polygon file and then you can set your map
layer accordingly.

See the OGR-HOWTO on the MapServer website for examples using OGRINFO.

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.


From bertelli at charta.acme.com  Fri Aug 17 06:10:34 2001
From: bertelli at charta.acme.com (Carlo A. Bertelli)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:10:34 +0200
Subject: [mapserver-users] cosmetic shadows
Message-ID: <l03130302b7a2c5ec2187@[192.168.1.2]>

Hello,

I would like to have some cosmetic shadow...

If you have ever seen the maps of the french cadastre (circa 1810) you
would appreciate very much the effect of a sort of shadow 'projected' by
the buildings. This helps very much in understanding what is built and what
is not.

I would like to produce the same effect offsetting a copy of the building
layer, classifying it with solid black and putting it 'under' the building
layer.

This effect, I think could be produced via the proj module, considering
that the offset should change with scale (nearly unperceivable at a little
scale, large when seen at a larger scale).

I understand this is not a very useful, but any suggestion will be highly
appreciated.

Carlo


--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Carlo A. Bertelli
   Charta   servizi e sistemi per il territorio e la storia ambientale srl
            Dipendenze del palazzo di Clemente Doria,
            via alla Chiesa della Maddalena 9/2 16124      Genova (Italy)
            tel. +39(0)10 2475439          fax +39(0)10 2475439
    e-mail: bertelli at charta.acme.com      http://www.charta.acme.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------




From bertelli at charta.acme.com  Fri Aug 17 06:00:06 2001
From: bertelli at charta.acme.com (Carlo A. Bertelli)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:00:06 +0200
Subject: [mapserver-users] PDF output again
Message-ID: <l03130301b7a2c57705cf@[192.168.1.2]>

Hello,

Some months ago I asked for pdf output from MapServer and a short thread
started but nor I nor anyone known to the list came out with a solution to
have vector graphics inside a pdf as a result of a MapServer query.
Now, I think there is no need to extend MapServer to become a pdf server; a
different cgi, which could accept MapServer commands without need for some
interactive part could be produced, substituting pdflib for gd. A button or
a link in the interface displaying the gif/png map could just call this cgi
in a new window with the same map in a vector containing PDF.
Just a suggestion for a hack...

Carlo


--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Carlo A. Bertelli
   Charta   servizi e sistemi per il territorio e la storia ambientale srl
            Dipendenze del palazzo di Clemente Doria,
            via alla Chiesa della Maddalena 9/2 16124      Genova (Italy)
            tel. +39(0)10 2475439          fax +39(0)10 2475439
    e-mail: bertelli at charta.acme.com      http://www.charta.acme.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------




From bertelli at charta.acme.com  Fri Aug 17 05:58:16 2001
From: bertelli at charta.acme.com (Carlo A. Bertelli)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 14:58:16 +0200
Subject: [mapserver-users] map extent with point based mapqueries
Message-ID: <l03130300b7a2b7dbd2d2@[192.168.1.2]>

Hello,

I'm trying to set up a very simple map application with some mapinfo tabs
and a point layer.

I should show a shop location starting from an interactive base map (that
works).

Querying one point
or
with an alphanumeric query on the same table
(preferably a Mapinfo table, but a shapefile could be the same, just
querying the DBF part)

it should provide:
*  attributes for the shop (if I use the mapinfo table this asks for v. 3.5)
*  three maps:
  --  one whith the shop location at a provincial level
  --  one with the shop with large boundaries (say at a urban area)
  --  a bigger one with small boundaries (say at the block level).

I tried to start from the example provided in the MapServer Test Suite:
(http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/mapserver_demos/tests/)

One of the examples provided something very near to what I was looking for,
that's the "Case 3: Simple ItemQuery With QueryMap" (what I want is indeed
very simple)
(http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/mapserver_demos/tests/itemquery/test.html)

The query template produces two maps, a reduced version of the starting map
(the one the user clicked on when starting the query) and a map created on
the fly. The template
(http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/mapserver_demos/tests/itemquery/case3_template.html
) is that simple (and I utterly simplified it):
This is just a simple dump of a few attributes for an individual polygon
in the test suites counties layer:

-------
Attributes:<BR>
	Name: [SHOP_NAME]<br>
	ID Number: [ID]<br>
	Type: [SHOP_TYPE]<br>

Map of the query results:<BR>
<img src="[img]" height="300" width="300">
<img
src="/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=[map]&item=ID&value=[ID]&mode=itemquerymap&mapext=shap
es" height="300" width="300">
-----

As Steve 'pointed out' (this is really the case), mapext is not appropriate
for points (a point has no EXTension). So, he suggested to use scale or
xyext with a buffer around the point.

Now, this is a start of several problems:

1. We should use v. 3.5 if we want to use a MapInfo Tab and v. 3.5 has some
differences wich are not extensively documented;
2. v. 3.5 shows some strange behaving, say it writes 'here: starting to
return query' after the generated html;
3. The query result only shows the layer on which I perform the query (this
is probably due to a misunderstanding: maybe I'm supposed to put the
template clause inside every layer I would like to show in the querymap,
but how shoud I specify what layer should be queried? I have ID fields in
every Mapinfo table).

Any suggestion?

Ciao
	Carlo





--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Carlo A. Bertelli
   Charta   servizi e sistemi per il territorio e la storia ambientale srl
            Dipendenze del palazzo di Clemente Doria,
            via alla Chiesa della Maddalena 9/2 16124      Genova (Italy)
            tel. +39(0)10 2475439          fax +39(0)10 2475439
    e-mail: bertelli at charta.acme.com      http://www.charta.acme.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------




From pramsey at refractions.net  Fri Aug 17 08:47:13 2001
From: pramsey at refractions.net (Paul Ramsey)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:47:13 -0700
Subject: [mapserver-users] PDF output again
References: <l03130301b7a2c57705cf@[192.168.1.2]>
Message-ID: <3B7D3C81.F6AE51BE@refractions.net>

I have thought about PDF-on-the-fly in the past, and there are a couple
of pretty major issues with "going vector":

- There will be times, fairly often, where the shear quantity of vector
data for a given map extent will make the file very, very large. So in
addition to just plan old rendering code, there probable need to be
line-thinning routines in an vector-file renderer, otherwise file-sizes
could be enormous.
- The file size of a raster-based PDF, where you just ask Mapserver for
an appropriately sized image with enough resolution to satisfy your
printer and insert it into the PDF, is not all that big with
compression. It is going to actually be difficult to tune a vector-file
renderer to beat the raster renderer on file-size. This is especially
try as you add layers, and of course if you have a raster layer like a
ortho, all bets are off: you might just as well have the full raster
solution.

In your mind, what is the benefit of "going vector" for rendering?

"Carlo A. Bertelli" wrote:

> 
> Some months ago I asked for pdf output from MapServer and a short thread
> started but nor I nor anyone known to the list came out with a solution to
> have vector graphics inside a pdf as a result of a MapServer query.
> Now, I think there is no need to extend MapServer to become a pdf server; a
> different cgi, which could accept MapServer commands without need for some
> interactive part could be produced, substituting pdflib for gd. A button or
> a link in the interface displaying the gif/png map could just call this cgi
> in a new window with the same map in a vector containing PDF.
> Just a suggestion for a hack...
> 
> Carlo
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Carlo A. Bertelli
>    Charta   servizi e sistemi per il territorio e la storia ambientale srl
>             Dipendenze del palazzo di Clemente Doria,
>             via alla Chiesa della Maddalena 9/2 16124      Genova (Italy)
>             tel. +39(0)10 2475439          fax +39(0)10 2475439
>     e-mail: bertelli at charta.acme.com      http://www.charta.acme.com
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------


From dmoffett at walnutsoft.com  Fri Aug 17 08:46:49 2001
From: dmoffett at walnutsoft.com (David Moffett)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:46:49 -0600
Subject: [mapserver-users] SVG
In-Reply-To: <20010817010142.334691C25AB51@smtp.yeah.net>
Message-ID: <200108171555.KAA18725@lists.gis.umn.edu>

Thank you for the information.  Since I am still studying the problem 
the information presented will help me determine the "BEST" solution for 
my task at hand.  My plan as of now will be the following:

1. Continue the study the code with the information provided.
2. Learn more about GML.
3. Asses a possible solution given the constraints of my project.
4. Disclose my approach for comments.

best = Ideal solution - ( Ideal solution / project constraints )

Please forward any ideas that you think my help me in my quest.

David

David B. Moffett
Walnut Software, LLC.
1050 Walnut Street, Suite 203
Boulder, CO 80302

dmoffett at walnutsoft.com

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From jimburnett at ntelos.net  Fri Aug 17 10:55:07 2001
From: jimburnett at ntelos.net (Jim Burnett)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 13:55:07 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Feature_ID
Message-ID: <00e101c12745$c0666fd0$2f01a8c0@morpheus>

Why can't I use Feature_ID as a CLASSITEM?
I have a line layer, which has other attribute data, but no matter which of the fields I use, none work. Why cant I just use the standard FeatureID.   its just for display only.


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From pnaciona at gis.umn.edu  Fri Aug 17 11:24:03 2001
From: pnaciona at gis.umn.edu (Pericles S. Nacionales)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 13:24:03 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Shapefiles
In-Reply-To: <003e01c126da$e8cefd90$01bca8c0@Peach>
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.21.0108171321250.1745321-100000@center.gis.umn.edu>

Go to the View Menu-->Properties.  Set your Map Units then click on Area
of Interest.  The extent will be displayed.

Ciao!
Perry

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Richard Ford wrote:

> G'Day Vinko,
> 
> I have ArcView running and am looking at the files OK.
> 
> However, I can't get this "EXTENT" information.
> 
> I can see type ok but no extent?  Where should I look?
> 
> I would like to try the showextents script however I don't have pearl map
> script and can't for the life of me find any info on downloading or
> installing it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Richard.
> 
> 
> 



From v at w.cl  Fri Aug 17 13:10:16 2001
From: v at w.cl (Vinko Vrsalovic B.)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 16:10:16 -0400 (CLT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] Shapefiles
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.21.0108171321250.1745321-100000@center.gis.umn.edu> from "Pericles S. Nacionales" at Aug 17, 2001 01:24:03 PM
Message-ID: <200108172010.f7HKAIk29745@antonia.nn.cl>

> 
> Go to the View Menu-->Properties.  Set your Map Units then click on Area
> of Interest.  The extent will be displayed.
> 
> Ciao!
> Perry
 
You should also 'Set AOI to:' Display.

> > 
> > I would like to try the showextents script however I don't have pearl map
> > script and can't for the life of me find any info on downloading or
> > installing it.

In the mapserver distribution comes a directory called mapscript,
you should cd into that directory, and do a perl Makefile.PL, make, make test,
make install.

-- 
V. <v at w.cl>


From v at w.cl  Fri Aug 17 13:31:10 2001
From: v at w.cl (Vinko Vrsalovic B.)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 16:31:10 -0400 (CLT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] Shapefiles
In-Reply-To: <200108172010.f7HKAIk29745@antonia.nn.cl> from "Vinko Vrsalovic B." at Aug 17, 2001 04:10:16 PM
Message-ID: <200108172031.f7HKVBx30125@antonia.nn.cl>


> You should also 'Set AOI to:' Display.
 
Correction: Set it to Display if you want to know the extent of what
you are actually seeing in the view. Set it to theme if you want to know
the full extent of a particular theme (ie shapefile)


> > > I would like to try the showextents script however I don't have pearl map
> > > script and can't for the life of me find any info on downloading or
> > > installing it.
 
Correction 2:

 In the mapserver distribution comes a directory called mapscript,
 you should cd into that directory and in then in the perl subdirectory, 
 then do: perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, make install.

-- 
V. <v at w.cl>


From mapserver at cubok.com  Sun Aug 19 04:30:15 2001
From: mapserver at cubok.com (Richard Ford)
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 21:30:15 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] All good!! - Types and multi layered files
Message-ID: <006301c128a2$52869810$01bca8c0@Peach>

G'Day All,

Thanks for all the help from people over the last 2 -3 weeks.

I now had a 'nod' on mapserver and off I go.....

I have been building a quick rudimentary map server app that is a recreation
of an ArcView project.

I have found some small things that I would like to run past people...

1)  Is there a colour chart online with RGB codes?  For choosing layer
colours?

2)  Multilayed shapefiles.  I have some shapefiles that contain within the
one file - multiple layers.  How do I get the multiple parts in the
shapefile to display?  Currently I am only getting one - say a multi layer
shape file with a bit of land and rivers on it.  I can only get the land to
appear and no rivers?

3) File types.  I read in the map file definition pages on the main web site
that one should "use common sense" with file types.  That is when displaying
one can use a different format than the shapefile, etc, etc.

I have a layer/theme/shapefile!  :)  that is stated as "PolyLine" in
ArcView - it is a countor map - made from a digital elevation model.  Now
defining it as polyline got me this result:

msDrawShapefileLayer(): General error message. POLYGON layers must be
POLYGON shapefiles.

I changed the type to line and it worked - however the lines were a little
"jaggy" in that small pieces here and there were missing.  I decided to fool
about with this type definition after reading the docs (to test and also to
learn more about GIS, MS, etc) and found that a type of "Point: also worked.
However with even more missing pieces and very much a "point" like result.

Now is my missing bits in LINE related to the fact that I have chosen this
type?  And why can't I define the layer as Polyline - the error message
above?


Cheers,

Richard Ford.
richard at cubok.com   www.cubok.com

The views expressed here are solely my own and do not necessarily represent
those of my employer.




From adsllaurentf at canl.nc  Sun Aug 19 05:05:24 2001
From: adsllaurentf at canl.nc (Laurent FOULONNEAU)
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 23:05:24 +1100
Subject: [mapserver-users] Itemquery in 3.5 
Message-ID: <002e01c128a7$3ab6ea00$0448abca@kids>

Hello mapserver users,

Is there any working sample using itemquery or itemnquery in 3.5. ?

I can't figure out how and where the value passed in http vars is tested in the mapfile. 

Any help would be very appreciated.

Follow some code...

Au revoir...
Laurent Foulonneau

I use a form like :
<input type="hidden" name="mode" value="itemquery">
 <input type="hidden" name="item" value="Nom">
 <input type="TEXT" size="30" name="value" value="">
 <input type="submit" value="Search">

so it produce an url like :
http://ubiq.hn.org/carto/noumea.phtml?minx=641474.000000&miny=7531714.000000&maxx=655534.000000&maxy=7542134.000000&imagewidth=500&imageheight=375&CMD=&INPUT_TYPE=&INPUT_COORD=&quartiers=Y&KEYMAPXSIZE=222&KEYMAPYSIZE=185&mode=itemquery&item=Nom&value=Ducos

with my mapfile like :
NAME DEMO
STATUS ON
SIZE 500 375
EXTENT 641474 7531714 655534 7542134
UNITS METERS
SHAPEPATH "../noumea"
FONTSET ../etc/fonts.txt

WEB
  MINSCALE 0
  MAXSCALE 50000000
  IMAGEPATH "/tmp/ms_tmp/" 
  IMAGEURL "/ms_tmp/"
  LOG "/tmp/gmap.log"
END


QUERYMAP
  STYLE HILITE
  COLOR 200 200 200
END

LAYER
  NAME quartiers
  METADATA
    "DESCRIPTION" "Nom"
    "RESULT_FIELDS" "Nom Perimetre Surface"
  END
  TYPE POLYGON
  STATUS ON
  DATA nou_utm
  LabelItem "Nom"
  CLASSITEM "Nom"
  CLASS
    COLOR 240 240 240
    OUTLINECOLOR 190 190 190
    TEMPLATE "query.html"
  END
END # layer

END #mapfile


My template "query.html" file only contain 
[Nom]




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From mapserver at cubok.com  Sun Aug 19 05:28:32 2001
From: mapserver at cubok.com (Richard Ford)
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 22:28:32 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Last Question
Message-ID: <007b01c128aa$76cc33d0$01bca8c0@Peach>

Re my last post:

I solved the "missing jaggy bit" problem.  Zoom level and detail settings.
:)

However the polyline/line question still stands.

Plus - how do I make a point type bigger.  I have tried class declarations
with min and maxsize, size, etc.  Currently my little testing stations are
pixels and not very visible.  :-\

Is there a more thorough manual anywhere?  Or are the web pages with brief
definitions the only place?  Trial and error to learn how to do something
basic is very time wasting!  :)


Richard Ford.
richard at cubok.com   www.cubok.com

The views expressed here are solely my own and do not necessarily represent
those of my employer.




From JohnHockaday at auslig.gov.au  Sun Aug 19 16:07:42 2001
From: JohnHockaday at auslig.gov.au (Hockaday, John)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:07:42 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] All good!! - Types and multi layered files
Message-ID: <53273E187450D311ACF6009027927B12022C0E74@smtpgate.auslig.gov.au>

Richard,

I have found http://wdvl.internet.com/Graphics/Colour/ very useful for RGB
colour charts.  This is a very good site because at the bottom of this page
they provide a "browser safe colour cube"  IE. the browser is guaranteed to
present the colour that you have chosen from this chart.

John


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Richard Ford [SMTP:mapserver at cubok.com]
> Sent:	Sunday, August 19, 2001 9:30 PM
> To:	Map
> Subject:	[mapserver-users] All good!! - Types and multi layered files
> 
> 1)  Is there a colour chart online with RGB codes?  For choosing layer
> colours?
> 
> 


From zhox at yeah.net  Sun Aug 19 19:11:50 2001
From: zhox at yeah.net (Zhou Xu)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:11:50 +0800
Subject: [mapserver-users] SVG
Message-ID: <20010820022202.26D281CC87460@smtp2.yeah.net>

I find a Perl SVG library at http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~jxm/SVG/iexplore.html, maybe useful for this thread.


On 2001-8-16 18:34:00, you wrote:
>David Moffett wrote:
>> 
>> I am thinking about adding SVG ( Scalar Vector Graphics ) to mapserver.
>> My questions are:
>> 
>> 1. Is someone already doing this?  There was some talk on the mailing in
>> Oct 2000 but I  did not see a conclusion.
>> 2. Is it a good idea?  I think it is since we would like to use it
>> ourselves.
>> 3. What approach would be best.  I have looked at the code and have some
>> ideas but I am a far cry from an expert on mapserver.
>> 
>
>
>I'm not aware of anything that has been started on this front yet, but
>we've had lots of interest expressed to have MapServer produce vector
>output (SVG being only one possibility).  So if any of these projects
>takes off then it's the kind of additions that we might get involved in.
>
>Anyway, I think your idea is a good one, but I think it should be done
>"the right way" in order for your work to be profitable in the long
>run.  A bit like the kind of changes Steve did when SDE and OGR were
>added, and which allowed the PostGIS guys to plug their driver with much
>less efforts.
>
>Basically that would mean redesigning important parts of the rendering
>code in MapServer (and likely some of the mapfile stuff too) to make it
>less GD-centric and be able to deal with various types of output.  If
>this is done well for the SVG case then other output formats such as
>GML, Flash, etc. can be added with much less efforts.
>
>My 0.02$
>-- 
>------------------------------------------------------------
> Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
> DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
>------------------------------------------------------------
>  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
>      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.



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From mark.wilson at rohoel.at  Mon Aug 20 01:27:19 2001
From: mark.wilson at rohoel.at (mark.wilson at rohoel.at)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:27:19 +0200
Subject: [mapserver-users] SVG
Message-ID: <C1256AAE.002E72CC.00@ragln01.rohoel.at>



I also think the ability to create SVG output would be a real advance for
MapServer.

The concerns about file size are also valid. I can imagine files may swell up
depending upon the map extents and type of output. However, I believe SVG can
also accommodate raster data as well, so one way forward is to output some data
as raster, and include other layers as SVG. (This implies controlling the
rendering by layer, not by map).

Of course by doing this you lose the possibility to get nice results by zooming
in and out using SVG functionality alone. But due to the possible file size
problems, this might not be so feasible anyway (except for the simplest of
maps).

So what will SVG offer? IMHO SVG offers some fantastic opportunities for
increasing the interactivity of the maps produced by mapserver. Specifically,
SVG offers the possibility for much greater visual feedback (mouseover
highlighting of map features, tooltip popup of information, etc.). Additinally,
SVG features can contain hyperlinks to provide the user with more detailed
information (this could be text based html page, or another call to mapserver
for a more detailed map). Plenty more is possible, with a little imagination.

MapServer has been used in the past to create image maps. So the same approach
should be possible to produce a raster "basemap" which could be used in SVG
output. Using mapscript, it is possible to get the pixel coordinates of point
features and these could be output in SVG format on top of the basemap. Voila -
your first interactive SVG map.

Hope that helps.

Mark W.




David Moffett <dmoffett at walnutsoft.com> on 17/08/2001 17:46:49

To:   "mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.ed" <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
cc:    (bcc: Mark H Wilson/RAG/AT)

Subject:  Re: [mapserver-users] SVG



Thank you for the information.  Since I am still studying the problem
the information presented will help me determine the "BEST" solution for
my task at hand.  My plan as of now will be the following:

1. Continue the study the code with the information provided.
2. Learn more about GML.
3. Asses a possible solution given the constraints of my project.
4. Disclose my approach for comments.

best = Ideal solution - ( Ideal solution / project constraints )

Please forward any ideas that you think my help me in my quest.

David

David B. Moffett
Walnut Software, LLC.
1050 Walnut Street, Suite 203
Boulder, CO 80302

dmoffett at walnutsoft.com


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From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Mon Aug 20 06:17:31 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:17:31 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Last Question
References: <007b01c128aa$76cc33d0$01bca8c0@Peach>
Message-ID: <3B810DEA.7ED3BC46@dmsolutions.ca>

Richard Ford wrote:
> 
> Plus - how do I make a point type bigger.  I have tried class declarations
> with min and maxsize, size, etc.  Currently my little testing stations are
> pixels and not very visible.  :-\
> 

Try setting a symbol number (using a circle symbol for instance) in your
class and then setting the SIZE should work.

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
------------------------------------------------------------
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      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.


From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Mon Aug 20 07:28:47 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:28:47 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] PDF output again
Message-ID: <sb80d87b.003@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

I don't think that MapServer proper, the CGI version, will ever directly support
PDF. There are simply too many major issues, the largest being PDF templates.
You gotta layout output somehow and you don't have the benefit of a rendering
engine like a web browser. Simply a PDF map isn't enough you need other things
like scalebars, legends and so on and that type of integration in the PDF world
is tough on the fly.

That said it's certainly possible to integrate MapServer and PDFs. It can be done
using external scripts that reference the CGI version for images or use MapScript
directly to access vectors. I've done the former with pretty good succes. Vector
output is certainly doable if you can get over moving between coordinate systems.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> "Carlo A. Bertelli" <bertelli at charta.acme.com> 08/17/01 08:00AM >>>
Hello,

Some months ago I asked for pdf output from MapServer and a short thread
started but nor I nor anyone known to the list came out with a solution to
have vector graphics inside a pdf as a result of a MapServer query.
Now, I think there is no need to extend MapServer to become a pdf server; a
different cgi, which could accept MapServer commands without need for some
interactive part could be produced, substituting pdflib for gd. A button or
a link in the interface displaying the gif/png map could just call this cgi
in a new window with the same map in a vector containing PDF.
Just a suggestion for a hack...

Carlo


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From LBallard at YesVirginia.org  Mon Aug 20 07:45:56 2001
From: LBallard at YesVirginia.org (Ballard,Lowell)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:45:56 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] mapraster.c compile error---
Message-ID: <509989F9E1D38D47ADA73ED9CF5BF32A16CEDD@communications>

I've tried compiling nightly with several options and I always get the same
parse errors.
-----------------------------------------
 
gcc -c -O2  -Wall -DIGNORE_MISSING_DATA  -DUSE_EPPL   -DUSE_TIFF -DUSE_JPEG
-DUSE_GD_GIF -DUSE_GD_SWAP_XY -DUSE_SDE
-I/home/baldur/mapserver/./gd-1.2/
-I/home/baldur/mapserver/../sdeexe81//include       mapraster.c -o
mapraster.o
mapraster.c: In function `msDrawRasterLayer':
mapraster.c:1698: parse error before `{'
mapraster.c:1721: continue statement not within a loop
mapraster.c:1734: continue statement not within a loop
mapraster.c:1747: continue statement not within a loop
mapraster.c:1760: continue statement not within a loop
mapraster.c:1867: continue statement not within a loop
mapraster.c:1881: continue statement not within a loop
mapraster.c:1611: warning: `f' might be used uninitialized in this function
mapraster.c:1882: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
mapraster.c: At top level:
mapraster.c:1884: parse error before `if'
mapraster.c:1887: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `chdir'
mapraster.c:1887: warning: parameter names (without types) in function
declaration
mapraster.c:1887: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
mapraster.c:1888: parse error before `return'
make: *** [mapraster.o] Error 1
 
Lowell Ballard
Unix/Database Administrator
Virginia Economic Development Partnership
901 E. Byrd St., Richmond, Va. 23218
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From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Mon Aug 20 07:52:42 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:52:42 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] SVG
Message-ID: <sb80de0b.020@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

Actually MapServer is having GML output added as we speak. Initially this will be available
via the OpenGIS WMT interface but logically it could be added as query output as well. Since
you're talking raw data here it boils down to queries rather than full draws. I believe there are tools
to move from GML to SVG but haven't played in that area at all.

This GML addition is really the last addition before the official 3.5 release, so soon...

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> Zhou Xu <zhox at yeah.net> 08/19/01 09:11PM >>>
I find a Perl SVG library at http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~jxm/SVG/iexplore.html, maybe useful for this thread.


On 2001-8-16 18:34:00, you wrote:
>David Moffett wrote:
>> 
>> I am thinking about adding SVG ( Scalar Vector Graphics ) to mapserver.
>> My questions are:
>> 
>> 1. Is someone already doing this?  There was some talk on the mailing in
>> Oct 2000 but I  did not see a conclusion.
>> 2. Is it a good idea?  I think it is since we would like to use it
>> ourselves.
>> 3. What approach would be best.  I have looked at the code and have some
>> ideas but I am a far cry from an expert on mapserver.
>> 
>
>
>I'm not aware of anything that has been started on this front yet, but
>we've had lots of interest expressed to have MapServer produce vector
>output (SVG being only one possibility).  So if any of these projects
>takes off then it's the kind of additions that we might get involved in.
>
>Anyway, I think your idea is a good one, but I think it should be done
>"the right way" in order for your work to be profitable in the long
>run.  A bit like the kind of changes Steve did when SDE and OGR were
>added, and which allowed the PostGIS guys to plug their driver with much
>less efforts.
>
>Basically that would mean redesigning important parts of the rendering
>code in MapServer (and likely some of the mapfile stuff too) to make it
>less GD-centric and be able to deal with various types of output.  If
>this is done well for the SVG case then other output formats such as
>GML, Flash, etc. can be added with much less efforts.
>
>My 0.02$
>-- 
>------------------------------------------------------------
> Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca 
> DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/ 
>------------------------------------------------------------
>  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
>      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.



-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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NGCC
Post Code, 100044
Beijing, China
Phone: +86 10 86851042
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From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Mon Aug 20 08:04:40 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:04:40 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] mapraster.c compile error---
References: <509989F9E1D38D47ADA73ED9CF5BF32A16CEDD@communications>
Message-ID: <3B812708.A4B799B1@dmsolutions.ca>

> I've tried compiling nightly with several options and I always get the
> same parse errors.

> mapraster.c: In function `msDrawRasterLayer':

> mapraster.c:1698: parse error before `{'

It's a typo related to a change I made last week.  It was a missing
bracket inside an #ifdef'd case that was never compiled in my case. 
I've committed a fix, so please do a CVS update and try again.

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------------------------------------------------------------
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 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
------------------------------------------------------------
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      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.


From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Mon Aug 20 08:11:50 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:11:50 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Itemquery in 3.5
Message-ID: <sb80e26b.036@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

I'll have to post something from home tonite. ITEMQUERY has changed radically (for the
better) in order to support all file types (i.e. SDE/OGR/PostGIS/shapefile). I've updated
the test suite on my home machine but not in the demo CVS yet. Will try to get that all
squared away this evening. At that point you'll be able to download the test suite and data
from the CVS to play with.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> "Laurent FOULONNEAU" <adsllaurentf at canl.nc> 08/19/01 07:05AM >>>
Hello mapserver users,

Is there any working sample using itemquery or itemnquery in 3.5. ?

I can't figure out how and where the value passed in http vars is tested in the mapfile. 

Any help would be very appreciated.

Follow some code...

Au revoir...
Laurent Foulonneau

I use a form like :
<input type="hidden" name="mode" value="itemquery">
 <input type="hidden" name="item" value="Nom">
 <input type="TEXT" size="30" name="value" value="">
 <input type="submit" value="Search">

so it produce an url like :
http://ubiq.hn.org/carto/noumea.phtml?minx=641474.000000&miny=7531714.000000&maxx=655534.000000&maxy=7542134.000000&imagewidth=500&imageheight=375&CMD=&INPUT_TYPE=&INPUT_COORD=&quartiers=Y&KEYMAPXSIZE=222&KEYMAPYSIZE=185&mode=itemquery&item=Nom&value=Ducos 

with my mapfile like :
NAME DEMO
STATUS ON
SIZE 500 375
EXTENT 641474 7531714 655534 7542134
UNITS METERS
SHAPEPATH "../noumea"
FONTSET ../etc/fonts.txt

WEB
  MINSCALE 0
  MAXSCALE 50000000
  IMAGEPATH "/tmp/ms_tmp/" 
  IMAGEURL "/ms_tmp/"
  LOG "/tmp/gmap.log"
END


QUERYMAP
  STYLE HILITE
  COLOR 200 200 200
END

LAYER
  NAME quartiers
  METADATA
    "DESCRIPTION" "Nom"
    "RESULT_FIELDS" "Nom Perimetre Surface"
  END
  TYPE POLYGON
  STATUS ON
  DATA nou_utm
  LabelItem "Nom"
  CLASSITEM "Nom"
  CLASS
    COLOR 240 240 240
    OUTLINECOLOR 190 190 190
    TEMPLATE "query.html"
  END
END # layer

END #mapfile


My template "query.html" file only contain 
[Nom]







From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Mon Aug 20 09:12:58 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:12:58 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Feature_ID
Message-ID: <sb80f0c7.093@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

What version, datatype etc? Assuming there is an item called feature_id there's no reason it
shouldn't work. That said being able to use a psuedo id in classes is not a bad idea. That id
is already a part of the internal shape structures but it's not trivial to add that to the expression
handler. Would you add this as a feature request to Bugzilla?

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> "Jim Burnett" <jimburnett at ntelos.net> 08/17/01 12:55PM >>>
Why can't I use Feature_ID as a CLASSITEM?
I have a line layer, which has other attribute data, but no matter which of the fields I use, none work. Why cant I just use the standard FeatureID.   its just for display only.


-jim




From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Mon Aug 20 09:27:12 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:27:12 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] label symbol size vs. label font size
Message-ID: <sb80f431.054@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

If the shields are images then they can't be scaled and size is ignored. The label size and symbol
size are not tied together in anyway. The best way to deal with 3 digits would be to have 2 versions
of the symbol (i.e. 2 gifs) and then use the length operator in an expression. You could also change
font size based on length. For example:

CLASS
  # class for 2 digit labels
  EXPRESSION (length('[HWYNUM]') eq 2)
  ...
END
CLASS
  # class for 2+ digit labels (note: no expression)
  ...
END

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> "Chad Nielsen" <cnielsen at co.tillamook.or.us> 08/16/01 01:20PM >>>
I'm having trouble adjusting the size of my highway shield symbols relative
to the label font size. Seems I can only make the highway shields bigger if
I make the font bigger, i.e. by increasing the SIZE attribute of the LABEL
object. Problem is I have 3-digit highway numbers which makes the text go
outside the shield boundary. If I increase the SIZE attribute of the CLASS
object nothing happens. How can I make the shield bigger without making the
label font bigger? Or, is there some other trick to getting 3-digits to fit
inside a shield? here is what I have in my map file:

LAYER
      NAME highwayshields
      DATA 'e:\gisweb\data\transportation\shapes\nwohwy'
      STATUS ON
      TYPE ANNOTATION
      LABELITEM "HWYNUM"
       CLASS
	   COLOR 0 0 0
	   SIZE 18
         SYMBOL 3
         OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
         LABEL
            SIZE 10
            MINDISTANCE 200
	      COLOR 0 0 0
	      BACKGROUNDCOLOR -1 -1 -1
	      TYPE TRUETYPE
	      FONT verdana-bold
	      POSITION CC
	    END #LABEL
       END # CLASS
END # LAYER

TIA,
Chad

Chad M. Nielsen, GIS Programmer/Analyst
Tillamook County Performance Partnership (TCPP)
Tillamook Coastal Watershed Resource Center (TCWRC)

  GIS:   http://gisweb.co.tillamook.or.us 
 TCPP:   http://www.co.tillamook.or.us/gov/Estuary/homepage.htm 
TCWRC:   http://www.tcwrc.org 





From adoyle at intl-interfaces.com  Mon Aug 20 09:35:25 2001
From: adoyle at intl-interfaces.com (Allan Doyle)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 12:35:25 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] SVG
References: <sb80de0b.020@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>
Message-ID: <3B813C4D.4660449E@intl-interfaces.com>



Stephen Lime wrote:
> 
> Actually MapServer is having GML output added as we speak. Initially this will be available
> via the OpenGIS WMT interface but logically it could be added as query output as well. Since

You have to be careful with terminology. WMT is not an interface, it's
an activity that brought about the WMS interface. (WMT = Web Mapping
Testbed, WMS = Web Map Service).

That being said, WMS 1.1.0 [1] drops any pretense at being able to
return feature data, leaving that task for a WFS (Web Feature Service),
not yet a spec, but a discussion paper available at [2]. However, at the
same time, a WMS 1.0.0 [3] or 1.1.0 can return GML as part of a
GetFeatureInfo request.

The essential difference between a WFS and a WMS is that the WFS
presents a set of operations that make more sense for vector data and a
WMS presents operations that make more sense for raster pictures. I
think whatever foundation you lay for having MapServer return GML will
stand you in good stead to move to a full WFS implementation.

Furthermore, there are some implementations of WFS and WMS that are
really just different entry points into the same software with different
interfaces layered on top.

> you're talking raw data here it boils down to queries rather than full draws. I believe there are tools
> to move from GML to SVG but haven't played in that area at all.

Yes, there are some that have been developed for/by the US Census Bureau
[4]

[1] http://www.opengis.org/techno/specs/01-047r2.pdf
[2] http://www.opengis.org/techno/discussions/01-023.pdf
[3] http://www.opengis.org/techno/specs/00-028.pdf
[4] http://www.gmlcentral.com/tiger/


	Allan

> Steve
> 
> Stephen Lime
> Internet Applications Analyst
> 
> Minnesota DNR
> 500 Lafayette Road
> St. Paul, MN 55155
> 651-297-2937
> 
> >>> Zhou Xu <zhox at yeah.net> 08/19/01 09:11PM >>>
> I find a Perl SVG library at http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~jxm/SVG/iexplore.html, maybe useful for this thread.
> 
> On 2001-8-16 18:34:00, you wrote:
> >David Moffett wrote:
> >>
> >> I am thinking about adding SVG ( Scalar Vector Graphics ) to mapserver.
> >> My questions are:
> >>
> >> 1. Is someone already doing this?  There was some talk on the mailing in
> >> Oct 2000 but I  did not see a conclusion.
> >> 2. Is it a good idea?  I think it is since we would like to use it
> >> ourselves.
> >> 3. What approach would be best.  I have looked at the code and have some
> >> ideas but I am a far cry from an expert on mapserver.
> >>
> >
> >
> >I'm not aware of anything that has been started on this front yet, but
> >we've had lots of interest expressed to have MapServer produce vector
> >output (SVG being only one possibility).  So if any of these projects
> >takes off then it's the kind of additions that we might get involved in.
> >
> >Anyway, I think your idea is a good one, but I think it should be done
> >"the right way" in order for your work to be profitable in the long
> >run.  A bit like the kind of changes Steve did when SDE and OGR were
> >added, and which allowed the PostGIS guys to plug their driver with much
> >less efforts.
> >
> >Basically that would mean redesigning important parts of the rendering
> >code in MapServer (and likely some of the mapfile stuff too) to make it
> >less GD-centric and be able to deal with various types of output.  If
> >this is done well for the SVG case then other output formats such as
> >GML, Flash, etc. can be added with much less efforts.
> >
> >My 0.02$
> >--
> >------------------------------------------------------------
> > Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
> > DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
> >------------------------------------------------------------
> >  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if
> >      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ZiZhuYuan BaishengCun No.1
> NGCC
> Post Code, 100044
> Beijing, China
> Phone: +86 10 86851042
> Fax:   +86 10 68424101
> 
> Email: std at nsdi.gov.cn
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Allan Doyle                         http://www.intl-interfaces.com
adoyle at intl-interfaces.com


From pramsey at refractions.net  Mon Aug 20 09:45:51 2001
From: pramsey at refractions.net (Paul Ramsey)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:45:51 -0700
Subject: [mapserver-users] SVG
References: <sb80de0b.020@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>
Message-ID: <3B813EBF.57CE8157@refractions.net>

Galdos Systems (www.galdos.ca) of Vancouver (pesky Canadians) makes a
business out of GML converters, and GML -> SVG is one of their
favourites. I shudder to think how complex their DSSSL sheets are, but I
understand they do the conversion using standard XML translation tricks.

Stephen Lime wrote:
> 
> Actually MapServer is having GML output added as we speak. Initially this will be available
> via the OpenGIS WMT interface but logically it could be added as query output as well. Since
> you're talking raw data here it boils down to queries rather than full draws. I believe there are tools
> to move from GML to SVG but haven't played in that area at all.
> 
> This GML addition is really the last addition before the official 3.5 release, so soon...
> 
> Steve
> 
> Stephen Lime
> Internet Applications Analyst
> 
> Minnesota DNR
> 500 Lafayette Road
> St. Paul, MN 55155
> 651-297-2937
> 
> >>> Zhou Xu <zhox at yeah.net> 08/19/01 09:11PM >>>
> I find a Perl SVG library at http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~jxm/SVG/iexplore.html, maybe useful for this thread.
> 
> On 2001-8-16 18:34:00, you wrote:
> >David Moffett wrote:
> >>
> >> I am thinking about adding SVG ( Scalar Vector Graphics ) to mapserver.
> >> My questions are:
> >>
> >> 1. Is someone already doing this?  There was some talk on the mailing in
> >> Oct 2000 but I  did not see a conclusion.
> >> 2. Is it a good idea?  I think it is since we would like to use it
> >> ourselves.
> >> 3. What approach would be best.  I have looked at the code and have some
> >> ideas but I am a far cry from an expert on mapserver.
> >>
> >
> >
> >I'm not aware of anything that has been started on this front yet, but
> >we've had lots of interest expressed to have MapServer produce vector
> >output (SVG being only one possibility).  So if any of these projects
> >takes off then it's the kind of additions that we might get involved in.
> >
> >Anyway, I think your idea is a good one, but I think it should be done
> >"the right way" in order for your work to be profitable in the long
> >run.  A bit like the kind of changes Steve did when SDE and OGR were
> >added, and which allowed the PostGIS guys to plug their driver with much
> >less efforts.
> >
> >Basically that would mean redesigning important parts of the rendering
> >code in MapServer (and likely some of the mapfile stuff too) to make it
> >less GD-centric and be able to deal with various types of output.  If
> >this is done well for the SVG case then other output formats such as
> >GML, Flash, etc. can be added with much less efforts.
> >
> >My 0.02$
> >--
> >------------------------------------------------------------
> > Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
> > DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
> >------------------------------------------------------------
> >  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if
> >      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ZiZhuYuan BaishengCun No.1
> NGCC
> Post Code, 100044
> Beijing, China
> Phone: +86 10 86851042
> Fax:   +86 10 68424101
> 
> Email: std at nsdi.gov.cn
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Mon Aug 20 10:31:47 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 12:31:47 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] get imgext value to javascript function
Message-ID: <sb810340.094@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

Sure, in your template just do something like:

  ...
  mapextent([minx], [miny], [maxx], [maxy]);
  ...

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> "Chan B. Huynh" <chuynh at ideorlando.org> 08/14/01 11:22AM >>>

Is it possible to get the spatial extent of the existing inline image from
CGI variable imgext [minx] [miny] [maxx] [maxy] to a javascript function

ie: function mapextent(minx,miny,maxx,maxy){}

???

thanks
-chan




From John.Arthur at voicestream.com  Mon Aug 20 11:26:46 2001
From: John.Arthur at voicestream.com (Arthur, John)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:26:46 -0700
Subject: [mapserver-users] Image output is flattened - projection issue?
Message-ID: <987E5CD7052ED51198F400508BA25279089ECF@vamerrifms01.gsm1900.org>

Mapserver is awesome,... but my display is squashed.  I have tried it both
ways, using shape file and Mapinfo files.
For instance, I have a layer that (should)displays a circle, but displays a
oval. Every thing is squashed, not just the circles. 
I am using NAD83 decimal format ie:
extent -83.675413 36.540739 -75.242266 39.466012

What is going on? Could someone help, please.

 
 
 
John Arthur
RF Technician
Office:   (757) 490-7221
Cellular: (757) 692-1515
Email:    john.arthur at voicestream.com


From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Mon Aug 20 13:05:28 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 15:05:28 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Image output is flattened - projection
	issue?
Message-ID: <sb812758.011@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

Sounds to me like the output image size doesn't match the image height and width
properties in the template html file.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> "Arthur, John" <John.Arthur at voicestream.com> 08/20/01 01:26PM >>>
Mapserver is awesome,... but my display is squashed.  I have tried it both
ways, using shape file and Mapinfo files.
For instance, I have a layer that (should)displays a circle, but displays a
oval. Every thing is squashed, not just the circles. 
I am using NAD83 decimal format ie:
extent -83.675413 36.540739 -75.242266 39.466012

What is going on? Could someone help, please.

 
 
 
John Arthur
RF Technician
Office:   (757) 490-7221
Cellular: (757) 692-1515
Email:    john.arthur at voicestream.com



From Chip.Hankley at GASAI.Com  Mon Aug 20 13:23:11 2001
From: Chip.Hankley at GASAI.Com (Hankley, Chip)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 15:23:11 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] How TO: Flashing / Blinking Polygon?
Message-ID: <3DFF131E4E6D2D4198CDD758F35A53536E3E20@postoffice.GASAI.Com>

I have an application where the user selects a value from a dropdown menu,
and the corresponding polygon on the map turns red.

I'd like to figure out a way to make the polygon "blink" or "flash" a number
of times in rapid succession, but have absolutely no idea how to do it.

Anyone have any suggestions / examples?

Thanks!

Chip

(MapServer 3.4, PHP MapScript for PHP Version 4.0.4pl1, WIN NT 4, PWS)




From John.Arthur at voicestream.com  Mon Aug 20 13:32:01 2001
From: John.Arthur at voicestream.com (Arthur, John)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 13:32:01 -0700
Subject: [mapserver-users] Image output is flattened - projection issu
	e?
Message-ID: <987E5CD7052ED51198F400508BA25279089ED0@vamerrifms01.gsm1900.org>

Actual, I'm using a PHP script modeled after the "gmap" example, not the cgi
version. The image sizes match because PHP pulls it from the .map file. This
is verified by viewing the source.

Maybe I'll try to do the CGI version.


John Arthur
RF Technician
Office:   (757) 490-7221
Cellular: (757) 692-1515
Email:    john.arthur at voicestream.com

-----Original Message-----
From: TCHaddad [mailto:TCHaddad at cshore.com]
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 4:06 PM
To: Arthur, John
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Image output is flattened - projection
issue?




sounds like the problem is not in mapserver's output, but rather how you are
displaying that output in your html template. 

make sure that the size parameters in you map file match the img display
sizes in you HTML.

ie: if in your mapfile you have: SIZE 600 600 (as in the demo), in your HTML
you should have:

<INPUT TYPE="image" SRC="[img]" width=600 height=600>
(as in the demo).

I think you can specify whatever sized output you want from mapserver, and
your map will look fine as long as you ensure that the size values match in
these 2 places...

Good luck,
TCH


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Arthur, John" <John.Arthur at voicestream.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:26:46 -0700

>Mapserver is awesome,... but my display is squashed.  I have tried it both
>ways, using shape file and Mapinfo files.
>For instance, I have a layer that (should)displays a circle, but displays a
>oval. Every thing is squashed, not just the circles. 
>I am using NAD83 decimal format ie:
>extent -83.675413 36.540739 -75.242266 39.466012
>
>What is going on? Could someone help, please.
>
> 
> 
> 
>John Arthur
>RF Technician
>Office:   (757) 490-7221
>Cellular: (757) 692-1515
>Email:    john.arthur at voicestream.com
>


From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Mon Aug 20 13:52:49 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:52:49 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] How TO: Flashing / Blinking Polygon?
References: <3DFF131E4E6D2D4198CDD758F35A53536E3E20@postoffice.GASAI.Com>
Message-ID: <3B8178A1.36AD28C8@dmsolutions.ca>

"Hankley, Chip" wrote:
> 
> I'd like to figure out a way to make the polygon "blink" or "flash" a number
> of times in rapid succession, but have absolutely no idea how to do it.
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions / examples?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Chip
> 
> (MapServer 3.4, PHP MapScript for PHP Version 4.0.4pl1, WIN NT 4, PWS)

You could use animated GIFs... I never tried this specifically, but did
similar things before so it should work:

1- You'll need to download and install the whirlgif executable in your
path.  Get it from http://www.danbbs.dk/~dino/whirlgif/

2- In your script, draw the map once with default layers, and once with
the highlighted polygon.  Make sure background is opaque.  Then combine
the images into an animated GIF using whirlgif:

   // Draw the 2 map slides to the imagepath directory
   $img1 = $map->draw();
   $img2 = $map->drawQuery();
   $imgURL1 = $img1->saveWebImage(...);
   $imgURL2 = $img2->saveWebImage(...);
   $filePath1 = map->web->imagepath . substr(strrchr($imgURL1, "/"),1);
   $filePath2 = map->web->imagepath . substr(strrchr($imgURL2, "/"),1);

   // Create a unique filename and URL for the animated GIF output
   $animName = "anim".substr(strrchr($imgURL1, "/"),1);
   $animPath = $map->web->imagepath . $animName;
   $animURL = $map->web->imageurl . $animName;

   // Run whirlgif to generate the animated GIF
   system("whirlgif -o $animPath -loop -time 500 $filePath1 -time 500
$filePath2");

   // $animURL now points to an animated GIF with the flashing polygon
   print "<IMG SRC=\"$animURL\" WIDTH=... HEIGHT=...>\n";


Note: a possible optimization could be to draw only the layer containing
the polygon to highlight with a transparent background in the second
pass.  I let you figure out how to do that.

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.



From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Mon Aug 20 14:04:34 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:04:34 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] How TO: Flashing / Blinking Polygon?
References: <3DFF131E4E6D2D4198CDD758F35A53536E3E20@postoffice.GASAI.Com> <3B8178A1.36AD28C8@dmsolutions.ca>
Message-ID: <3B817B62.EBF4A2E1@dmsolutions.ca>

Daniel Morissette wrote:
> 
>    // Run whirlgif to generate the animated GIF
>    system("whirlgif -o $animPath -loop -time 500 $filePath1 -time 500
> $filePath2");
> 

OOpps... little typo: The delay passed to the -time argument should be a
smaller value such as 25 or 50 since it's in units of 1/100 second.  The
example above would flash only once per 5 seconds.

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.



From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Mon Aug 20 14:11:19 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:11:19 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] How TO: Flashing / Blinking Polygon?
Message-ID: <sb8136cd.032@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

You need to create an animated gif. Let's say you create a single frame
with the mapserver where the selected polygon is, say, yellow. You could
use GD or ImageMagick to create a second frame changing the yellow to
redm and then yet another tool to wrap the frames into the animated gif. 
What that tool is I don't know but there's got to be one out there, perhaps
ImageMagick. Could do it. Finally that animated gif is returned to the user
and the process continues.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> "Hankley, Chip" <Chip.Hankley at GASAI.Com> 08/20/01 03:23PM >>>
I have an application where the user selects a value from a dropdown menu,
and the corresponding polygon on the map turns red.

I'd like to figure out a way to make the polygon "blink" or "flash" a number
of times in rapid succession, but have absolutely no idea how to do it.

Anyone have any suggestions / examples?

Thanks!

Chip

(MapServer 3.4, PHP MapScript for PHP Version 4.0.4pl1, WIN NT 4, PWS)





From Jonathon.Root at agso.gov.au  Mon Aug 20 16:07:58 2001
From: Jonathon.Root at agso.gov.au (Jonathon.Root at agso.gov.au)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:07:58 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] converting old .map files
Message-ID: <28DE833A781BD511839600D0B772248F6AA2FF@agsomail1.agso.gov.au>

G'day all,

Having finally got around to updating some very old online map applications
I was wondering if anyone had a script for converting pre-3.3 .map files to
3.3+ .map files?
Thanks.

Regards,
Jonathon Root


From aalgera at ibama.gov.br  Mon Aug 20 17:24:37 2001
From: aalgera at ibama.gov.br (Andries J. Algera)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:24:37 -0300 (BRT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] Problem compiling Mapserver w/ PHP Mapscript on Solaris 2.6
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0108202118160.29431-100000@ibama-rnp.ibama.gov.br>


I sucessfully compiled mapserver 3.5 on linux (Redhat). Whenever I try to
do the same steps on solaris 2.6 I get the following errors at link time
of the PHP module.

gcc  -W -Wl -o php_mapscript.so php_mapscript_util.o php_mapscript.o
mapscript_i
.o  -L/home/aalgera/mapserver -lmap       -ltiff -lgd    -lm
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/2.95.2/crt1.o: In function
`_start':
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/2.95.2/crt1.o(.text+0x5c): undefined
 reference to `main'
php_mapscript_util.o: In function `_phpms_report_mapserver_error':
php_mapscript_util.o(.text+0x44): undefined reference to `zend_error'
php_mapscript_util.o: In function `_phpms_fetch_handle2':
php_mapscript_util.o(.text+0x9c): undefined reference to `zend_hash_find'
php_mapscript_util.o(.text+0xc8): undefined reference to `zend_list_find'
php_mapscript_util.o(.text+0x100): undefined reference to `zend_error'
php_mapscript_util.o: In function `_phpms_fetch_property_handle2':
php_mapscript_util.o(.text+0x15c): undefined reference to `zend_error'
php_mapscript_util.o(.text+0x180): undefined reference to `zend_hash_find'
php_mapscript_util.o(.text+0x1ac): undefined reference to `zend_error'
php_mapscript_util.o(.text+0x1d4): undefined reference to `zend_list_find'
php_mapscript_util.o(.text+0x214): undefined reference to `zend_error'
php_mapscript_util.o: In function `_phpms_fetch_property_string':
php_mapscript_util.o(.text+0x27c): undefined reference to `zend_error'
php_mapscript_util.o(.text+0x2a4): undefined reference to `zend_hash_find'
php_mapscript_util.o(.text+0x2d0): undefined reference to `zend_error'
php_mapscript_util.o(.text+0x2e8): undefined reference to
`_convert_to_string'

These errors go on for a while. 

Can anyone explain me what is going wrong here.


Andries Algera
CSR - IBAMA
SAIN L4, Lote 4, Ed. IBAMA Sede
70800.200  Brasilia / DF
BRASIL
ph: +5561 316-1326
          316-1453
fax:+5561 223-7108
--------------------------------------------------------------------



From AWOOLEY at mountainland.org  Tue Aug 21 06:03:20 2001
From: AWOOLEY at mountainland.org (ANDREW WOOLEY)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 07:03:20 -0600
Subject: [mapserver-users] Query Point
Message-ID: <sb8207c4.078@email.state.ut.us>

Folks,

I am really stumped here. I am trying to get my query to work properly.  I am using the nightly build of PHP/Mapscript that I grabbed this morning (August 21, 2001).  

I am using a modified-for-my-application version of the gmap demo and when I click on a feature on the map, I get the proper data results, but am the shape is not highlighting and the map zooms to the initial extent.  If anyone has any clues as to why this might be happening and would like to share them with me, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks very much.

Andrew




From v at w.cl  Tue Aug 21 06:16:34 2001
From: v at w.cl (Vinko Vrsalovic B.)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:16:34 -0400 (CLT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] Using classes to set the color of a shape
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0108202118160.29431-100000@ibama-rnp.ibama.gov.br> from "Andries J. Algera" at Aug 20, 2001 09:24:37 PM
Message-ID: <200108211316.f7LDGZd08434@antonia.nn.cl>


Hello all. 

	Briefly: How do I set dynamically a shape crated from a shapefile
to be part of one class on a layer?

	Not so briefly: I have a set of shapefiles with one line each, and based
on user's input I display a subset of them on the map. I render them all
on the same layer. The layer has 7 classes and the subset is always smaller
than 7 (each class has a different color, and that's what I'm pursuing here).
The problem is all the shapes created from the shapefiles have a classindex 0,
and I don't know how to change it to be part of a specific class of the layer.

I'm doing that this way:

$layer_lines is the layer created from the map file.

for ($i=0;$i<7;$i++) {
	if (user said yes to i)
		$shape[i] = create_shape_from_shapefile($shapefile[i]);
}

$image=$map->draw();

for ($i=0; $i<7 && (user said yes to i); $i++) {
	$shape[i]->draw($map,$layer_lines,$image,$i,"");
}

I was hoping for the $i parameter of the draw shape method to set
the class on $layer_lines, but they all are drawn on class 0.

What can I do to make this work? or what's the correct method for setting
colors dynamically for a set of shapes? (hopefully not involving creating
layers because of the infamous invalid maphandle).

Ah, and create_shape_from_shapefile is:

 	$shapefile = ms_newShapefileObj($file.".shp",-1);
        $shapeobj = ms_newShapeObj(MS_SHAPE_LINE);

        $shp = $shapefile->getShape(0);
        $line = $shp->line(0);
        $shapefile->free();

        $shapeobj->add($line);
        $shp->free();

        return $shapeobj;           

(As I said, the shapefiles only have one line)

Yes, I'm using PHP4.0.6 and PHP MS 3.5 latest build. :)

Thanks for the help.
-- 
V. <v at w.cl>


From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Tue Aug 21 06:33:13 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:33:13 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Problem compiling Mapserver w/ PHP Mapscript on 
 Solaris 2.6
References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0108202118160.29431-100000@ibama-rnp.ibama.gov.br>
Message-ID: <3B826319.6C46BEDA@dmsolutions.ca>

"Andries J. Algera" wrote:
> 
> I sucessfully compiled mapserver 3.5 on linux (Redhat). Whenever I try to
> do the same steps on solaris 2.6 I get the following errors at link time
> of the PHP module.
> 
> gcc  -W -Wl -o php_mapscript.so php_mapscript_util.o php_mapscript.o
> mapscript_i
> .o  -L/home/aalgera/mapserver -lmap       -ltiff -lgd    -lm


The part of the configure script that takes care of the PHP module needs
some rework...

Look in mapscript/php3/Makefile for the line "LD= gcc -W -Wl" and try
replacing it with "LD= gcc -shared" ... hopefully that will do the
trick.

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.


From jason.coutermarsh at crrel.usace.army.mil  Tue Aug 21 06:48:57 2001
From: jason.coutermarsh at crrel.usace.army.mil (Jason Coutermarsh)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:48:57 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Trouble creating points and creating shapefiles
Message-ID: <PMEPKPMFKHEMCGMHGOFLCEDHCAAA.jason.coutermarsh@crrel.usace.army.mil>

Hi! Has anyone been able to create a point on an image file or create a
shape file using the latest nightly build of mapscript? I could in mapscript
3.4, but now I keep getting Segmentation Faults. Thanks.

Jason Coutermarsh
Jason.Coutermarsh at crrel.usace.army.mil



From v at w.cl  Tue Aug 21 07:01:15 2001
From: v at w.cl (Vinko Vrsalovic B.)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:01:15 -0400 (CLT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] How TO: Flashing / Blinking Polygon?
In-Reply-To: <3B817B62.EBF4A2E1@dmsolutions.ca> from "Daniel Morissette" at Aug 20, 2001 05:04:34 PM
Message-ID: <200108211401.f7LE1F808994@antonia.nn.cl>

> 
> Daniel Morissette wrote:
> > 
> >    // Run whirlgif to generate the animated GIF
> >    system("whirlgif -o $animPath -loop -time 500 $filePath1 -time 500
> > $filePath2");
> > 
> 
> OOpps... little typo: The delay passed to the -time argument should be a
> smaller value such as 25 or 50 since it's in units of 1/100 second.  The
> example above would flash only once per 5 seconds.
> 

Is there such thing as an animated PNG?

What can I do if my GD is not gif compliant?

-- 
V. <v at w.cl>


From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Tue Aug 21 07:15:29 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:15:29 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Using classes to set the color of a shape
References: <200108211316.f7LDGZd08434@antonia.nn.cl>
Message-ID: <3B826D01.15021D6C@dmsolutions.ca>

"Vinko Vrsalovic B." wrote:
> 
> for ($i=0; $i<7 && (user said yes to i); $i++) {
>         $shape[i]->draw($map,$layer_lines,$image,$i,"");
> }
> 
> I was hoping for the $i parameter of the draw shape method to set
> the class on $layer_lines, but they all are drawn on class 0.
> 

OOppps... there's an error in the docs.  In MS 3.5 the shape->draw()
method doesn't take the class index argument any more.  The docs should
say:
   int draw(mapObj map, layerObj layer, imageObj img)

(and same thing with rectObj->draw()), etc.)

I've filed this as a doc bug in bugzilla to make sure it gets fixed:
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=36

OK, so how does it work then?  In MS3.5 the shapeObj has a new class
member called "classindex" ... so I would think that calling 
$shape->set("classindex", $i); before calling draw() should work,
but I haven't tested that myself...

Oh... wait... shapeObj doesn't have a set() method because all its
member used to be read-only... so I think you're stuck until we fix
this, hopefully in the next week or so.  It's filed in bugzilla as well:
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=37

BTW, thanks for taking time to write a complete description of the
problem!
-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.



From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Tue Aug 21 07:22:18 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:22:18 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] How TO: Flashing / Blinking Polygon?
References: <200108211401.f7LE1F808994@antonia.nn.cl>
Message-ID: <3B826E9A.76A188A0@dmsolutions.ca>

"Vinko Vrsalovic B." wrote:
> 
> Is there such thing as an animated PNG?
> 

I don't think so (but I may be wrong).  But anyway Whirlgif wouldn't
support it so you would need to find another tool to generate the
animation.

> What can I do if my GD is not gif compliant?
> 

You can try with the patched GD from  http://www.rime.com.au/gd/

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
 Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.


From Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca  Tue Aug 21 07:37:01 2001
From: Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca (Doyon, Jean-Francois)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:37:01 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Building Mapscript/Python
Message-ID: <7CDD7B94357FD5119E800002A537C46E22FB98@s5-ccr-r1.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca>

Hello,

I'm trying to build a Mapscript module for Python 2.1 out of the CVS
version, and am having some problems. I was wondering if anybody has
succeeded?

I've done:

cd mapserver/mapscript/python
ln -s ../mapscript.i mapscript.i
swig -shadow -python mapscript.i
gcc -c mapscript_wrap.c -I/usr/include/python2.1 -o mapscriptcmodule.o
ld -shared mapscriptcmodule.o -o mapscriptcmodule.so

This all works fine, this is the latest SWIG 1.3.6 ...

BUT When I try to import the module:

Python 2.1.1 (#1, Jul 26 2001, 04:57:14) 
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-81)] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import mapscript
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "mapscript.py", line 2, in ?
    import mapscriptc
ImportError: ./mapscriptcmodule.so: undefined symbol: ms_error
>>> 

I checked the interface file, and it does look like the ms_error symbol
isn't defined! (Used, but not defined):

#ifdef SWIGPYTHON
// For Python, errors reported via the ms_error structure are translated
// into RuntimeError exceptions. (Chris Chamberlin <cdc at aracnet.com>)
%{
  static void _raise_ms_exception(void) {
    char errbuf[256];
    snprintf(errbuf, 255, "%s: %s %s\n", ms_error.routine,
msGetErrorString(ms_error.code), ms_error.message);
    _SWIG_exception(SWIG_RuntimeError, errbuf);
  }

  #define raise_ms_exception() { _raise_ms_exception(); return NULL; }
%}

%except {
  $function
    if ( (ms_error.code != MS_NOERR) && (ms_error.code != -1) )
      raise_ms_exception();
}
#endif // SWIGPYTHON

The above is the only section of the file that refers to ms_error ... which
somehow seems wrong ...

Anyone ?

Thanks!


Jean-Fran?ois Doyon
Internet Service Development and Systems Support
GeoAccess Division
Canadian Center for Remote Sensing
Natural Resources Canada
http://atlas.gc.ca
Phone: (613) 992-4902
Fax: (613) 947-2410



From mapserver at cubok.com  Tue Aug 21 07:45:53 2001
From: mapserver at cubok.com (Richard Ford)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 00:45:53 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] All good!! - Types and multi layeredfiles
References: <sb80e170.002@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>
Message-ID: <015201c12a4f$fb5fb120$01bca8c0@Peach>


> 2)  Multilayed shapefiles.  I have some shapefiles that contain within the
> one file - multiple layers.  How do I get the multiple parts in the
> shapefile to display?  Currently I am only getting one - say a multi layer
> shape file with a bit of land and rivers on it.  I can only get the land
to
> appear and no rivers?

That's what classes are for. Let's say you have a shapefile with land and
water,
with a item in the shapefile called 'TYPE' that allows you to differentiate
between
them. Then you'd define a class like this:

CLASSITEM 'type'
CLASS
  NAME 'Land'
  EXPRESSION 'land'
  COLOR 255 0 0
END

The expression would show polygons where type=land and features not matching
that expression would not be drawn. You can, of course, define multiple
classes.

G'Day Stephen,


I'm sorry, could you explain that a bit more...  Declare 'type' and then
'land' but they must be equal?

In my shapefile there a lot of little area's made by some system - I am not
sure.  Some are clear, some are coloured.  The colour depends on the "level"
of acidity that is, I assume in the dbf file and linked to the shape file.

They each have little tag names.... so would I need to make a class or
classitem for each one?  And how would I make them appear and their colour
change given a value in the database file?

Are there any urls to examples or reference materials that you could point
me to?

Cheers,
Richard.



From aalgera at ibama.gov.br  Tue Aug 21 08:13:15 2001
From: aalgera at ibama.gov.br (Andries J. Algera)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:13:15 -0300 (BRT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] Problem compiling Mapserver w/ PHP Mapscript
 on  Solaris 2.6
In-Reply-To: <3B826319.6C46BEDA@dmsolutions.ca>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0108211212390.16487-100000@ibama-rnp.ibama.gov.br>


Worked fine, thanks for the help.

Andries

On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Daniel Morissette wrote:

> "Andries J. Algera" wrote:
> > 
> > I sucessfully compiled mapserver 3.5 on linux (Redhat). Whenever I try to
> > do the same steps on solaris 2.6 I get the following errors at link time
> > of the PHP module.
> > 
> > gcc  -W -Wl -o php_mapscript.so php_mapscript_util.o php_mapscript.o
> > mapscript_i
> > .o  -L/home/aalgera/mapserver -lmap       -ltiff -lgd    -lm
> 
> 
> The part of the configure script that takes care of the PHP module needs
> some rework...
> 
> Look in mapscript/php3/Makefile for the line "LD= gcc -W -Wl" and try
> replacing it with "LD= gcc -shared" ... hopefully that will do the
> trick.
> 
> -- 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>  Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
>  DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>   Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
>       you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.
> 

--------------------------------------------------------------------
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CSR - IBAMA
SAIN L4, Lote 4, Ed. IBAMA Sede
70800.200  Brasilia / DF
BRASIL
ph: +5561 316-1326
          316-1453
fax:+5561 223-7108
--------------------------------------------------------------------



From mapserver at cubok.com  Tue Aug 21 08:49:01 2001
From: mapserver at cubok.com (Richard Ford)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 01:49:01 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Zoom/Web Page size
Message-ID: <01ff01c12a58$cd830910$01bca8c0@Peach>

G'Day All,

If I have a map app and it is being displayed on the web page as 400 x 400
pixels.  Is there a way to make the whole map window smaller - to fit on the
page with other text, etc...  I can make the map image smaller by zooming
out.  However I'd like to just "Shrink" the whole damm thing.

Is this the "X x Y" size setting at the very beginning on a .map file?

Cya,

Richard Ford.
richard at cubok.com   www.cubok.com

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From pkishor at GeoAnalytics.com  Tue Aug 21 09:09:33 2001
From: pkishor at GeoAnalytics.com (Puneet Kishor)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:09:33 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Query Point
In-Reply-To: <sb8207c4.078@email.state.ut.us>
Message-ID: <200108211610.LAA16171@lists.gis.umn.edu>

Andrew (and others, to whom this may apply),

On Tuesday, August 21, 2001, at 08:03  AM, ANDREW WOOLEY wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I am really stumped here. I am trying to get my query to work 
> properly.  I am using the nightly build of PHP/Mapscript that I grabbed 
> this morning (August 21, 2001).

my first suggestion right off the bat would be to stop using the nightly 
builds for production purposes. Get a stable copy and stick to it until 
a new stable version is released. That way you are not dealing with any 
of the development level problems that may arise in an interim version.

That said, here are some specifics to your problem --

> I am using a modified-for-my-application version of the gmap demo and 
> when I click on a feature on the map, I get the proper data results, 
> but am the shape is not highlighting and the map zooms to the initial 
> extent.  If anyone has any clues as to why this might be happening and 
> would like to share them with me, I would really appreciate it.
>

First, you have to get the extent of the shape that you are trying to 
highlight. You do that by identifying the row id of the shape in the 
dbase file... remember, the shapes are indexed starting from 0 while the 
dbase file is indexed starting from 2... the first row is the header row.

Then you use the ms_newShapefileObj to read the shape file, and use the 
getExtent method to get the rect of the shape. getExtent requires the 
shape index i (getExtent(int i)) which you get from the row id in the 
dbase file above.

Once you know the mapextent, you can zoom to it. However, you still need 
to highlight your shape.

The easiest way I know is to create highlight layer, set its status to 
off, make it the highlight color you want, and use an expression in the 
class item directive. Once you have chosen your shape above, set the 
status of this highlight layer to on and pass it the value to be 
evaluated in the expression. Your shape will light up.

Hth,

pk/

--
Puneet Kishor
pkishor at eidesis.org


From jbutcher at ci.collierville.tn.us  Tue Aug 21 10:52:16 2001
From: jbutcher at ci.collierville.tn.us (Jim Butcher)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:52:16 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] How TO: Flashing / Blinking Polygon?
In-Reply-To: <200108211401.f7LE1F808994@antonia.nn.cl>
References: <3B817B62.EBF4A2E1@dmsolutions.ca>
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010821123751.00a69258@mail.ci.collierville.tn.us>

Information on PNG can be found at http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/.  MNG is 
the animated version of PNG.  Information on MNG can be found at 
http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/.  A C library for MNG (libmng) is available 
at http://www.libmng.com/.

Currently Netscape 6 and Mozilla support both MNG and the jpeg version 
JNG.  A plugin is available for Netscape Navigator/Communicator 4+, Opera 
3.6+, and Internet Explorer 5+.

James H. Butcher
GIS/Plans Manager
Town of Collierville

phone: 901-853-3271
fax: 901-853-5858
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From jbutcher at ci.collierville.tn.us  Tue Aug 21 10:54:05 2001
From: jbutcher at ci.collierville.tn.us (Jim Butcher)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:54:05 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] How TO: Flashing / Blinking Polygon?
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010821125341.00a84d48@mail.ci.collierville.tn.us>

Information on PNG can be found at http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/.  MNG is 
the animated version of PNG.  Information on MNG can be found at 
http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/.  A C library for MNG (libmng) is available 
at http://www.libmng.com/.

Currently Netscape 6 and Mozilla support both MNG and the jpeg version 
JNG.  A plugin is available for Netscape Navigator/Communicator 4+, Opera 
3.6+, and Internet Explorer 5+.

James H. Butcher
GIS/Plans Manager
Town of Collierville

phone: 901-853-3271
fax: 901-853-5858
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From nhv at cape.com  Tue Aug 21 11:14:47 2001
From: nhv at cape.com (Norman Vine)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 14:14:47 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Building Mapscript/Python
In-Reply-To: <7CDD7B94357FD5119E800002A537C46E22FB98@s5-ccr-r1.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca>
Message-ID: <009401c12a6d$2a2bcd00$a300a8c0@nhv>

Doyon, Jean-Francois writes:
>
>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to build a Mapscript module for Python 2.1 out of the CVS
>version, and am having some problems. I was wondering if anybody has
>succeeded?
>
>I've done:
>
>cd mapserver/mapscript/python
>ln -s ../mapscript.i mapscript.i
>swig -shadow -python mapscript.i
>gcc -c mapscript_wrap.c -I/usr/include/python2.1 -o mapscriptcmodule.o
>ld -shared mapscriptcmodule.o -o mapscriptcmodule.so

I really don't know much about making .so files 
but don't you have to link the shared library against libmap.a  
and the other libraries that it depends on ?

FWIW
I haven't tried building mapserver or mapsript for a while
but find attached a python Setup file that I have used before
to build python mapscript with Linux
If you are familiar with building Python modules this
should be self documenting

IMHO 
Python mapscript really needs a Python DistUtils Setup file written. 
then in a cross platform way this would be as simple as 

% cd $MAP_SRC / mapscript / python
% python setup.py --install

Unfortunately this is currently a rather low-priority on my todo list.
< but that could possibly be changed if someone had a real need >

Cheers

Norman VIne
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From kames at keyspanenergy.com  Tue Aug 21 11:51:55 2001
From: kames at keyspanenergy.com (Kieran J. Ames)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 14:51:55 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Java Applet Development
References: <sb77bdcc.050@ns105s.kamloops.city>
Message-ID: <3B82ADCB.37C6FE0B@keyspanenergy.com>

Thanks to all for the input. However, I must have some kind of MENTAL BLOCK
going on. I can't seem to visualize the link from a Perl generated MAP file to
the ROSA applet.
I usually create my shapefiles and mapfile on the fly based on user input and
deliver the user to a page containing the mapimage applet... (my mapserver
template file).

I can't make the leap over to the Rosa applet. Would I merely build a page
on-the-fly using Perl and point to the image I made with the Mapserver cgi? If
so, how would I define PIXEL_SIZE? And what about zooming? The
ec_species_e.phtml  FORM action points to ec_species_e.phtml and this is a PHP
interface. What would I point to to have Perl/Mapserver get involved to create
a new image.

Thanks so much in advance. Sorry if this is basic stuff, but like I said... I
just haven't been able to make the connection between these two environments!
Kieran


Janet Ciavarelli wrote:

> Is the Rosa applet only available in the PHP environment?
>
> >>> Daniel Morissette <morissette at dmsolutions.ca> 08/13/01 07:29AM >>>
> Kieran,
>
> The ROSA applet can do exactly that... see section "4 - distance
> measurement tool" in the ROSA docs at
> http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/webtools/rosa/rosa_params.html
>
> You can see an example of it in use in Environment Canada's species at
> risk application at
> http://www.sis.ec.gc.ca/msapps/ec_species/htdocs/ec_species_e.phtml
>
> The measured distance is displayed in the status bar of the browser
> window... no need to say that the distance is only approximative due to
> the projection issues that you mentioned.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Daniel
>
> "Kieran J. Ames" wrote:
> >
> > Are there any users/developers who have played with a Java interface to
> > MapServer data, other than the wonderful mapimage applet?
> > I'm thinking of a measuring tool that could be used to make a
> > rudimentary ruler, where a user could click from
> > point-to-point-to-point, drawing a line and getting an indication of the
> > length of the line that was drawn.
> > The maps I render are typically only in the "town/neighborhood" range,
> > and I can't speak to great-circles, projections vs decimal degrees, etc.
> > But I would think that a map that has a given extent would have some
> > sort of distance per pixel value that could be calculated and applied to
> > a line drawing tool. Specifically, I'd like to be able to offer the user
> > the ability to get an Ad-Hoc distance estimate when viewing a
> > neighborhood by "tracing" a line over the streets they're viewing and
> > figure out how many linear feet (meters/yards) were traveled: as opposed
> > to "as the crow flies" straight line distances.
> > Any Java-wise users out there that have explored this kind of
> > functionality?
> > Thanks,
> > Kieran
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From Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca  Tue Aug 21 12:20:27 2001
From: Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca (Doyon, Jean-Francois)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:20:27 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Building Mapscript/Python
Message-ID: <7CDD7B94357FD5119E800002A537C46E22FB9C@s5-ccr-r1.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca>

Hmmmm, good point about the linking!

Actually I know *nothing* of Python right now, just starting ... I was just
following the instructions provided with swig, then again they probably
didn't take it accound the dependency on other librairies indeed ...

And I *really* don't feel like re-building Python, I just installed the RPM,
and would ratehr stick with that.

Turns out that thanks to your input, I modified my "ld" command to link
against all the other librairies that Mapserver depends on:

ld -shared mapscriptcmodule.o ../../libmap.a /usr/local/lib/libgd.a
/usr/local/lib/libproj.so /usr/lib/libtiff.so /usr/lib/libpng.so
/usr/lib/libfreetype.so -o mapscriptcmodule.so

now the import works ok :)

This is good: I'm trying to integrate MapServer into Zope
(http://www.zope.org), which is a Python based Web Application Framework of
sorts, or Content Management System, whatever you wanna call it :)
Hopefully I'll be able to develop re-usable mapscript components, so that
the system's users (The web designers) will be able to embed a mapping tool
by using nothing more than a simple tag for instance ...

Thanks!
J.F.

> ----------
> From: 	Norman Vine[SMTP:nhv at cape.com]
> Reply To: 	nhv at cape.com
> Sent: 	Tuesday, August 21, 2001 2:14 PM
> To: 	'Doyon, Jean-Francois'
> Cc: 	mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: 	RE: [mapserver-users] Building Mapscript/Python
> 
> <<File: setup.mapscript>>
> Doyon, Jean-Francois writes:
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >I'm trying to build a Mapscript module for Python 2.1 out of the CVS
> >version, and am having some problems. I was wondering if anybody has
> >succeeded?
> >
> >I've done:
> >
> >cd mapserver/mapscript/python
> >ln -s ../mapscript.i mapscript.i
> >swig -shadow -python mapscript.i
> >gcc -c mapscript_wrap.c -I/usr/include/python2.1 -o mapscriptcmodule.o
> >ld -shared mapscriptcmodule.o -o mapscriptcmodule.so
> 
> I really don't know much about making .so files 
> but don't you have to link the shared library against libmap.a  
> and the other libraries that it depends on ?
> 
> FWIW
> I haven't tried building mapserver or mapsript for a while
> but find attached a python Setup file that I have used before
> to build python mapscript with Linux
> If you are familiar with building Python modules this
> should be self documenting
> 
> IMHO 
> Python mapscript really needs a Python DistUtils Setup file written. 
> then in a cross platform way this would be as simple as 
> 
> % cd $MAP_SRC / mapscript / python
> % python setup.py --install
> 
> Unfortunately this is currently a rather low-priority on my todo list.
> < but that could possibly be changed if someone had a real need >
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Norman VIne
> 


From LBallard at YesVirginia.org  Tue Aug 21 12:47:46 2001
From: LBallard at YesVirginia.org (Ballard,Lowell)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:47:46 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Point Queries Hanging
Message-ID: <509989F9E1D38D47ADA73ED9CF5BF32A16CF12@communications>

MS 3.5 nightly from today
RH 7.1
 
If you query an area where points are grouped tightly you get the correct
behavior.  Poly and line features seem to work ok.
 
If you click on a point that is somewhat isolated...the server hangs.
 
Nothing interesting in the apache logs.  Saw some related post on the
listserv archive but no resolution.
 
http://gis.vedp.org/cgi-bin/mapserv35?mode=browse&layer=buildings&layer=coun
ties&layer=spot2001&zoomdir=0&zoomsize=3&imgxy=299.5+250&imgext=174222.22222
1+171734.167340+184098.765431+179972.850473&map=%2Fusr%2Flocal%2Fapache%2Fht
docs%2Fvedp_maps%2Fvedp.map&savequery=true&mapext=shapes&img.x=322&img.y=243
 
.map layer:
 
LAYER
  NAME buildings
  TYPE POINT
  DATA bldg
  STATUS ON
  CLASSITEM "bldg_no"
  LABELITEM "bldg_no"
  MAXSCALE 100000
  LABELMAXSCALE 25000
  HEADER buildings_header.html
  TOLERANCE 10
  CLASS
    NAME Buildings
    EXPRESSION /./
    SYMBOL 'square'
    SIZE 5
    COLOR 0 0 255
    TEMPLATE buildings.html
    LABEL
        SIZE 8
        MINSIZE 2
        MAXSIZE 8
        COLOR 0 0 0
        OFFSET 3 0
        BACKGROUNDCOLOR 245 240 219
       BACKGROUNDSHADOWSIZE 4 4
       BACKGROUNDSHADOWCOLOR 0 0 0
        TYPE TRUETYPE
        POSITION lr
        FONT tahoma
        ANTIALIAS
        BUFFER 1
      END
  END
END
 
 
 
Lowell Ballard
Unix/Database Administrator
Virginia Economic Development Partnership
901 E. Byrd St., Richmond, Va. 23218
http://gis.vedp.org
 
 
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From aalgera at ibama.gov.br  Tue Aug 21 13:24:15 2001
From: aalgera at ibama.gov.br (Andries J. Algera)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 17:24:15 -0300 (BRT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] More php/mapscript problems under solaris 2.6
In-Reply-To: <3B826319.6C46BEDA@dmsolutions.ca>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0108211714130.16193-100000@ibama-rnp.ibama.gov.br>


I have the following piece of code:

// Open map object
$map = ms_newMapObj("../webmap.map");

// Get the theme descriptions
for ( $i=0 ; $i < $map->numlayers; $i++ ) {
    $l=$map->getLayer($i);
    $tema[$l->group] = $l->getMetadata("title");
}

When the parser tries to run the line $l=$map->getLayer($i) with $ > 0, I
get the following error:

Fatal error: Object has an invalid _handle_ property in 
/home/httpd/webmap/html/webmap.php on line 60

This same piece of code works perfectly fine on my linux server, so I
guess it has something to do with the Solaris version. 

If you need more information, please let me know.

Andries Algera
CSR - IBAMA
SAIN L4, Lote 4, Ed. IBAMA Sede
70800.200  Brasilia / DF
BRASIL
ph: +5561 316-1326
          316-1453
fax:+5561 223-7108



From cameron at socialchange.net.au  Tue Aug 21 19:44:11 2001
From: cameron at socialchange.net.au (Cameron Shorter)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:44:11 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] compile error in mapraster.c
Message-ID: <3B831C7B.1EB3FF2F@socialchange.net.au>

Note for the coder.
We get the following compile error:

gcc -c -O2  -Wall -DIGNORE_MISSING_DATA  -DUSE_EPPL   -DUSE_TIFF
-DUSE_JPEG -DUSE_GD_GIF      -I/usr/include            mapraster.c -o
mapraster.o
mapraster.c: In function `msDrawRasterLayer':
mapraster.c:1698: parse error before `{'

Was fixed by adding a ")".

-- 
Cameron Shorter          Web Mapping Manager
Social Change Online
248 Johnson St           Tel: +61 (0) 2 9692 5115
Annandale NSW 2038       Fax: +61 (0) 2 9692 5192
Sydney, Australia        http://webmap.socialchange.net.au


From praktikant2.arp at bd.so.ch  Wed Aug 22 01:24:45 2001
From: praktikant2.arp at bd.so.ch (Praktikant/in2 ARP)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:24:45 +0100
Subject: [mapserver-users] symbol rotation
Message-ID: <5B025B1F39D6D4119F5700508BEEEC66214A95@srsofaioi4546.ktso.ch>

Hello,
I am not getting TrueType symbols to rotate.
Is it actually possible to rotate symbols like one can do with labels using
the LABELANGLEITEM command?
If so, how can I do it and is there a way to set the rotation center to a
different spot than the center of the symbol (e.g. I wonna rotate a triangle
around its buttom left corner).

regards,
Doreen Wenzel


From info at geo-it.com  Wed Aug 22 00:29:09 2001
From: info at geo-it.com (Geo-IT-GmbH)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:29:09 +0200
Subject: [mapserver-users] Java class library for mapscript
Message-ID: <9138808AB827D311B56800E018900A610A5606@gdppdc.gdp.com>

Hi Graham,

We also try to access the mapserv-functions from java. Referring to Your
article "Using mapserv as a dynamic link library from a servlet", I
downloaded the dll and java classes from Your website.
You said, that the source for the java classes are included in the jar, but
I only found binary code. Can You distribute also the source code, so that
we can try to complete them?

Thanks,

Daniel

***************************************************
Geo-IT GmbH   -   Geoinformatik, IT-Services
Guggenberg 3, D-82380 Peissenberg
Tel: 08803-498372, Fax: 08803-498373
eMail: info at geo-it.com  -  Homepage: http://www.geo-it.com
***************************************************



From jef.mony at free.fr  Wed Aug 22 01:41:36 2001
From: jef.mony at free.fr (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-Fran=E7ois_MONY?=)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:41:36 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: [mapserver-users] segmentation fault / Failed to open map file 
Message-ID: <998469696.3b837040eecde@imp.free.fr>

Hi everybody,

I'm under Linux Mandrake 8.0.

I tried t use the last nightly build with php-4.0.6, but i have a problem of 
segmentation fault (apache error log).
The problem appear when I use the ms_newMapObj function.

I have downgrade to the php-4.0.5 and it's disappear, but another problem comes.
After some time of use I have the message :

Warning: MapServer Error in msLoadMap(): ():(0) 
in /mnt/40go/syrin/files/globalmap.php on line 28

Fatal error: Failed to open map file /mnt/40go/syrin/map/communs/global.map 
in /mnt/40go/syrin/files/globalmap.php on line 28

with lsof -c httpd | wc, I get "921 8213 74264".
I don't know if it's good or not then if somebody can say me.

If somebody have idea on one other both problem, let me know.

Thanks, 
Jef

Jean-Fran?ois MONY - jef.mony at free.fr
Parc naturel r?gional de Lorraine
Responsable informatique/SIG
tel : 03-83-84-06-37
fax : 03-81-33-60
D?tach? aupr?s du laboratoire de phyto?cologie de l'universit? de Metz
tel : 03-87-37-84-05
fax : 


From ed at topozone.com  Wed Aug 22 07:21:52 2001
From: ed at topozone.com (Ed McNierney)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:21:52 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Querying a polygon layer with TILEINDEX?
Message-ID: <13858AA1A74F30419F319ACB66A9D122019174@mercator.topozone.com>

I've created a number of point, line, and polygon layers (in 3.5) by
tiling a set of shapefiles together (using tile4ms) and using a
TILEINDEX - i.e.

LAYER
  NAME Lakes
  TYPE Polygon
  STATUS On
  TILEINDEX LAKESIDX
  CLASS
    COLOR 144 219 255
    OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
    TEMPLATE "Lakes_template.html"
  END

  HEADER "Lakes_header.html"
  FOOTER "Lakes_footer.html"

END

I now find that I can't query this layer, as I could when I just had a
single shapefile defined with a DATA statement.  Is this by design?  If
I should be querying a TILEINDEX layer some other way, let me know.  I'm
running on a two-week-old build of 3.5, so let me know if I need an
update.  Thanks!

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com
ed at topozone.com
(978) 251-4242


From DebasishS at riskinc.com  Wed Aug 22 06:52:14 2001
From: DebasishS at riskinc.com (DebasishS at riskinc.com)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 19:22:14 +0530
Subject: [mapserver-users] Itemquery example in latest Mapserver 3.5
Message-ID: <OF386A9863.1A60CCB7-ON65256AB0.004C1102@riskinc.com>

hi ,

Can anybody provide me an example as to how itemquery and itemnquery needs
to be performed.
it seen whole lot of stuff has changed with MapServer 3.5

cheer
debasish.

Debasish Sahu.
Senior Software Engineer
RMS India.
A-7,Sector-16
Noida-201301.
Uttar Pradesh.India.
Phone :  +91-118-4511102
Fax :  +91-118-4511109
Website : http://www.rmsinet.com



From teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu  Wed Aug 22 08:33:00 2001
From: teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu (teb)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:33:00 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] php mapscript (fwd)
Message-ID: <200108221533.KAA02763@mallit.fr.umn.edu>


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From: "Aaron Hunt" <hunt at zedxinc.com>
To: <mapserver-info at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Subject: php mapscript
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 16:28:05 -0400
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I am trying to create a php/mapscript program. 

I first create a polygon shape file. Then I apply the shape file 
to a map object and display it.

When I do this The new shape file does not display. If I re-run 
the program with out rewriting the shape file and using the old 
on, it works.

How can I get this to work?
Thank you for any help 
Aaron

Ps. Here is the code I am using

$dbname = "/tmp/shape";
$shpFname = "/tmp/shape";
$shpFile = ms_newShapeFileObj( $shpFname, MS_SHP_POLYGON);
$dbfFile = dbase_create( $dbname.".dbf",  array( array("File", 
"C", 50) ));
$lat = array();
$lon = array();
$oShp = ms_newShapeObj(MS_SHAPE_POLYGON);
$oLine = ms_newLineObj();
//Used to parse data from xml and run the data ($lat:$lon)
$fp = popen ("perl t.pl /home/httpd/db/76.xml boundary_20010820", 
"r");
while(!feof ($fp)) 
 {
 $buffer = fgets($fp , 4096);
 chop($buffer);
 list ($lat1, $lon1) = split (':', $buffer);
 if ($lat1 != "")
  {
  $oLine->addXY($lon1, $lat1);
  }
 array_push ($lat, $lat1);
 array_push ($lon, $lon1);
 }


$oShp->add( $oLine );
$shpFile->addShape($oShp);
dbase_add_record($dbfFile, array("76"));
pclose;

$shpFile->free();
dbase_close($dbfFile);

sort($lat);
sort($lon);
$maxx = $lon[1];
$miny = $lat[1];
$minx = $lon[count($lon) -1];
$maxy = $lat[count($lat) -1];

$map = ms_newMapObj("php.map");
$map->setExtent($minx, $miny, $maxx, $maxy);
$layer = $map->getlayerbyname(field);
$layer->set("data","/tmp/shape");
$img = $map->draw();
$url = $img->saveWebImage(1, 0, 0, 65);
printf("<IMG SRC=%s WIDTH=%d HEIGHT=%d>\n", $url, $map->width, 
$map->height);

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From: teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu (teb)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:35:35 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] Simple QUERY problem (fwd)
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From: teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu (teb)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:36:09 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] Querying a feature and displaying the results (dbf)  in a browser window (fwd)
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From barberc at msu.edu  Wed Aug 22 08:48:06 2001
From: barberc at msu.edu (Chris Barber)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:48:06 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Annotating inline features (PHP)
Message-ID: <3B83D436.742D9EA0@msu.edu>

Howdy all,

I thought this was brought up recently but I can't find it in the list
archives, so...

Using PHP/Mapscript, I'm creating shape objects from query result data
and adding them to the map as inline features. And that works great. Now
I'm trying to annotate each feature with a unique text string generated
from the same query. It seemed as tho $ShapeObj->draw() would be able to
do this, but it won't seem to work. I'm guessing that there's something
I need in my map file to let this happen. Can anybody point me in the
right direction here please?? 

Mapfile excerpt:
LAYER
  NAME ETM
  TYPE POLYGON
  STATUS ON
  FEATURE
  END
  CLASS
    NAME "ETM+"
    OUTLINECOLOR 255 0 0
    LABEL
      SIZE 6
      FORCE TRUE 
      COLOR 0 0 0
      TYPE TRUETYPE
      FONT verdana-bold
      ANTIALIAS
      PARTIALS FALSE
    END
  END
END

PHP-ish excerpt:
for each result record
  $ShapeObj = ms_newShapeObj(MS_SHAPE_POLYGON);
  $LineObj  = ms_newLineObj();
  $LineObj->addXY($point1[1],$point1[0]);
     ... and so on for all points, ending w/ point1 to close ...
  $ShapeObj->add($LineObj);
  $ShapeObj->draw($mapObj,$layerObj,$imgObj,0,$featurename);

I get the features no problem, just no text.
MapServer/3.5, PHP/4.0.6

Thanks much,
Chris


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From teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu  Wed Aug 22 09:02:21 2001
From: teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu (teb)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:02:21 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] itemquery (fwd)
Message-ID: <200108221602.LAA02888@mallit.fr.umn.edu>


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From: "Blaine Hackett" <bhackett at isd.net>
To: <mapserver-info at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Subject: itemquery
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 20:43:09 -0500
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Hi

I am trying to use itemquery to query a parcel database by address.  I can
make a dropdown
box of exact addresses (ex. 8490 University Ave ne) and it queries fine.
However, I want
to be able to input an address number in a text box and pick the street
name.  I can't figure
out how to concatenate these and have it work by just using hidden vars.  Is
it possible
this way or do I have to do some scripting?

Thanks
Blaine


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From Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca  Wed Aug 22 09:04:33 2001
From: Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca (Doyon, Jean-Francois)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:04:33 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] 3.5 Symbology
Message-ID: <7CDD7B94357FD5119E800002A537C46E22FB9F@s5-ccr-r1.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca>

Hello,

How do I defined parallel lines symbology with the latest mapserver? If I
want to do things like "rail road tracks" for instance ?

The example symbols in CVS are still from the old version!

Thanks,

Jean-Fran?ois Doyon
Internet Service Development and Systems Support
GeoAccess Division
Canadian Center for Remote Sensing
Natural Resources Canada
http://atlas.gc.ca
Phone: (613) 992-4902
Fax: (613) 947-2410



From teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu  Wed Aug 22 09:05:03 2001
From: teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu (teb)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:05:03 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] Featurequery maps (fwd)
Message-ID: <200108221605.LAA02894@mallit.fr.umn.edu>


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From: Stuart.Row at brs.gov.au
To: mapserver-info at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: Featurequery maps
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 12:07:10 +1000
MIME-Version: 1.0

Does anybody have a working example of a FEATURENQUERY query 
(using slayer & qlayer) that produces an output map with the 
selected polygons highlighted? I can display the selected records 
in textual form, but am having no luck displaying a map showing 
the results of the query. The application appears to create a gif 
file of -1 bytes.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Stuart Row
Bureau of Rural Sciences
Tel: +61 2 6272 4640       Email: stuart.row at brs.gov.au
Fax: +61 2 6272 4687      Web: http://www.affa.gov.au


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From teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu  Wed Aug 22 09:07:17 2001
From: teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu (teb)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:07:17 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] Annotation (fwd)
Message-ID: <200108221607.LAA02912@mallit.fr.umn.edu>


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From: "Emiliano Visentin" <emiliano.visentin at libero.it>
To: <mapserver-info at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Subject: Annotation
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 18:44:31 +0200
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I'm using  MapServer 3.3 and I have a problem with annotation.
I can not rotate them!
I specify the tags 'LABELITEM' and 'LABELANGLEITEM' but the 
annotation are
always depict horizontally.
I attach piece of my map file:

LAYER #Definizione Tema
   NAME Tema0
   TYPE route
   STATUS on
   DATA vie2
   LABELITEM VIA
   LABELANGLEITEM ANGOLO
   CLASS
      Name route
      COLOR 0 0 0
      OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
   END # CLASS
END #Fine Definizione Tema

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From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Wed Aug 22 10:54:51 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:54:51 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] symbol rotation
Message-ID: <sb83abbc.086@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

It can't be done (at the moment). TrueType symbols are new and while they work they
are not as full-featured as I'd like. The only option is use labels to do this type of annotation
which is fine unless you actually need text in addition to the symbol.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> Praktikant/in2 ARP <praktikant2.arp at bd.so.ch> 08/22/01 03:24AM >>>
Hello,
I am not getting TrueType symbols to rotate.
Is it actually possible to rotate symbols like one can do with labels using
the LABELANGLEITEM command?
If so, how can I do it and is there a way to set the rotation center to a
different spot than the center of the symbol (e.g. I wonna rotate a triangle
around its buttom left corner).

regards,
Doreen Wenzel



From jimburnett at ntelos.net  Wed Aug 22 12:43:41 2001
From: jimburnett at ntelos.net (Jim Burnett)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 15:43:41 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Feature_ID
References: <sb825a7f.004@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>
Message-ID: <00b501c12b42$bf2d56a0$2f01a8c0@morpheus>

OK I think I get it.
So I should add an "ID" field to the shape file. 
It makes sense, because I am not querying anything on this shape file ( river and contouer lines), so thats why there isnt any fields.

Also,
I can get a refresnce map to show up in JPG and PNG, but it looks like it is always in full extent. Once in a while it will move, but not much at all.
Here is my code:

****start
require 'config.php';
$dfMinX = $CUREXTENT[minx];
  $dfMinY = $CUREXTENT[miny];
   $dfMaxX = $CUREXTENT[maxx];
    $dfMaxY = $CUREXTENT[maxy];
 $mapObj = ms_newMapObj("$dataPath/" . $map . ".map");
  $mapObj->setExtent($CUREXTENT[minx],$CUREXTENT[miny],$CUREXTENT[maxx],$CUREXTENT[maxy]);
   $nClickGeoX = GMapPix2Geo(intval($map_x), 0, $width, $dfMinX, $dfMaxX, 0);
    $nClickGeoY = GMapPix2Geo(intval($map_y), 0, $height, $dfMinY, $dfMaxY, 1);
     $ptClicked = ms_newPointObj();
      $ptClicked->setXY($nClickGeoX, $nClickGeoY);
#       $queryObj = $mapObj->queryByPoint( $ptClicked,MS_SINGLE,0 );
 #       $gbShowQueryResults = TRUE;
#print" $map $map_x $map_y $dataPath \n";

$img = $mapObj->drawReferenceMap();

header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("content-type: image/png");
$img->saveImage("",MS_PNG,0,0, 100);
********end


thanks

-jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Lime" <steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us>
To: <jimburnett at ntelos.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Feature_ID


No, there is a single classitem for a given layer. That is, you can pick a single
item to compare expressions against. That works for straight string comparisons
and regular expressions. You can also use logical expressions that operate on
many items although there is a performance hit for doing so.

Feature_id may be a virtual ID, one maintained by the application rather than
something actually in the shapefile. By their very nature each shape in a shapefile
has an sequential index number (shape 0, shape 1 and so on) so that may be 
whay you're refering to. At the moment MapServer doesn't allow you to use that
value in an expression.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> "Jim Burnett" <jimburnett at ntelos.net> 08/20/01 01:24PM >>>
so there are diferent types of "class items" ?
I was just looking for an item to use, based on ArcExplorers output.
feature_id seems to be in all the shape files I have been working with, but
wont work, I have had to use other id's such as   "road_id" for my roads
shape file and "building_id" for my building ID. But this doesnt have a
"river_id", or a custom ID besides the feature_id and some other id
fields...

I am still new to GIS, been doing it for about 3 months now.

-jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Lime" <steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us>
To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>; <jimburnett at ntelos.net>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Feature_ID


> What version, datatype etc? Assuming there is an item called feature_id
there's no reason it
> shouldn't work. That said being able to use a psuedo id in classes is not
a bad idea. That id
> is already a part of the internal shape structures but it's not trivial to
add that to the expression
> handler. Would you add this as a feature request to Bugzilla?
>
> Steve
>
> Stephen Lime
> Internet Applications Analyst
>
> Minnesota DNR
> 500 Lafayette Road
> St. Paul, MN 55155
> 651-297-2937
>
> >>> "Jim Burnett" <jimburnett at ntelos.net> 08/17/01 12:55PM >>>
> Why can't I use Feature_ID as a CLASSITEM?
> I have a line layer, which has other attribute data, but no matter which
of the fields I use, none work. Why cant I just use the standard FeatureID.
its just for display only.
>
>
> -jim
>
>
>



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From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Wed Aug 22 13:07:22 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 15:07:22 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Itemquery example in latest Mapserver
	3.5
Message-ID: <sb83caab.002@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

I popped the 3.5 version of the test suite at:

  http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/mapserver_demos/tests3.5 

Two of the 3 itemquery examples work fine. The second one is busted although
it worked fine under Linux it's not under Solaris. I hope this is a clue to a nasty
bug I've been tracking but I haven't had time to sit down with it. Anyway, you can
look at example one to get a feel for how this works. Basically you set the new
layer parameter called FILTER to execute an itemquery and that filter is used
to generate a query result set. This is *much* more powerfull than the old method.
The FILTER is either built using the new %name% substitution in map files (this allows
you to substitute form vars directly into mapfile layer filter and class expressions) or
by building the expression using javascript and submitting it via the map_layername_filter
CGI variable.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> <DebasishS at riskinc.com> 08/22/01 08:52AM >>>
hi ,

Can anybody provide me an example as to how itemquery and itemnquery needs
to be performed.
it seen whole lot of stuff has changed with MapServer 3.5

cheer
debasish.

Debasish Sahu.
Senior Software Engineer
RMS India.
A-7,Sector-16
Noida-201301.
Uttar Pradesh.India.
Phone :  +91-118-4511102
Fax :  +91-118-4511109
Website : http://www.rmsinet.com 




From jimburnett at ntelos.net  Wed Aug 22 13:26:43 2001
From: jimburnett at ntelos.net (Jim Burnett)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:26:43 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] refrence map  JPEG/PNG
Message-ID: <00e101c12b48$c1df4880$2f01a8c0@morpheus>

I noticed that refrence map doesnt work, even withg gmap.

Am I wrong? My code does the same thing as gmap;s code. It just draws the full extent...for ref map.



-jim

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From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Wed Aug 22 13:55:32 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:55:32 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Annotating inline features (PHP)
References: <3B83D436.742D9EA0@msu.edu>
Message-ID: <3B841C44.EC3C6E26@dmsolutions.ca>

Chris Barber wrote:
> 
> Howdy all,
> 
> I thought this was brought up recently but I can't find it in the list
> archives, so...
> 
> Using PHP/Mapscript, I'm creating shape objects from query result data
> and adding them to the map as inline features. And that works great. Now
> I'm trying to annotate each feature with a unique text string generated
> from the same query. It seemed as tho $ShapeObj->draw() would be able to
> do this, but it won't seem to work. I'm guessing that there's something
> I need in my map file to let this happen. Can anybody point me in the
> right direction here please??
> 

You were right, a similar issue came up yesterday :)  ... and you'll
have to wait for the same fixes before you can get any further. 
Hopefully I get to that soon.

See:
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/majordom_lists/archives/mapserver-users/html/0108/msg00271.html

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
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 DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
------------------------------------------------------------
  Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
      you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.


From jsmedsmo at gis.umn.edu  Wed Aug 22 16:07:20 2001
From: jsmedsmo at gis.umn.edu (Jamie Smedsmo)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 18:07:20 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] [Fwd: Help connect data base for MySql and PHP/MapScript]
Message-ID: <3B843B28.F69AC434@gis.umn.edu>



Diego Jos? Padr?n wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> If it is not a lot to bother, you have some algorithm or example code of as
> connectar php/mapscript to MySql using information in.shp
> 
> Thank you for your help really that it is necessary me a lot of.
> 
> Diego J. Padr?n
> Universidad de Los Andes
> Escuela de Geograf?a
> M?rida - Venezuela
> 
> _________________________________________________________________
> Descargue GRATUITAMENTE MSN Explorer en http://explorer.msn.es/intl.asp


From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Wed Aug 22 18:49:11 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 20:49:11 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] 3.5 Symbology
Message-ID: <sb841aeb.042@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

Use overlayed symbols. I posted symbol and layer definitions for these in another thread a month or two ago.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

Minnesota DNR
500 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155
651-297-2937
>>> "Doyon, Jean-Francois" <Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca> 08/22/01 11:08 AM >>>
Hello,

How do I defined parallel lines symbology with the latest mapserver? If I
want to do things like "rail road tracks" for instance ?

The example symbols in CVS are still from the old version!

Thanks,

Jean-Fran?ois Doyon
Internet Service Development and Systems Support
GeoAccess Division
Canadian Center for Remote Sensing
Natural Resources Canada
http://atlas.gc.ca
Phone: (613) 992-4902
Fax: (613) 947-2410




From md at socialchange.net  Wed Aug 22 19:32:26 2001
From: md at socialchange.net (Marcus Dillury)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:32:26 +1000 (EST)
Subject: [mapserver-users] 3.5 compilation problems.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108231217190.14885-100000@milamber.syd.socialchange.net.au>

I am trying to compile a 3.5 build of mapserver on a Redhat 7 Linux box.
I am using the following options with the configuration script.

./configure --with-proj=/usr/local --with-gdal --with-gd=/usr/local/lib/gd-1.2 --with-freetype=/usr/lib

proj-4.4.3
gdal-1.1.5
gd-1.2
freetype-1.3.1-7


The Makefile builds without complaint.
When I run 'make' I get the following problem


gcc -O2  -Wall -DIGNORE_MISSING_DATA  -DUSE_EPPL -DUSE_PROJ
-DUSE_PROJ_API_H -DUSE_WMS  -DUSE_TIFF -DUSE_JPEG -DUSE_GD_GIF
-DUSE_GD_SWAP_XY   -DUSE_GDAL   -I/usr/local/lib/gd-1.2
-I/usr/local/include        -I/usr/local/include   shp2img.o  -L. -lmap
-L/usr/local/lib/gd-1.2 -lgd -ljpeg -L/usr/lib -lttf -lpng -lz -ltiff
-ljpeg -L/usr/lib -lttf -lpng -lz -L/usr/local/lib -lproj -ljpeg
-L/usr/local/lib -lgdal.1.1    -lm   -o shp2img
./libmap.a(mapresample.o): In function `msResampleGDALToMap':
mapresample.o(.text+0xe8e): undefined reference to `gdImagePaletteCopy'
mapresample.o(.text+0xec4): undefined reference to `gdImagePaletteCopy'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [shp2img] Error 1


Does anyone seen this error before? Could I please get some pointers or
advice?

Thanks in advance,

--Marcus



From gilles.cherix at freesurf.ch  Thu Aug 23 00:42:51 2001
From: gilles.cherix at freesurf.ch (gilles.cherix at freesurf.ch)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:42:51 +0100
Subject: [mapserver-users] mapfile tweaking and about WMS
Message-ID: <998548971.webexpressdV3.1.f@smtp.freesurf.ch>

Hi all,

We're working on a project using ms3.5 and we have to choose wether we 
should use WMS queries or PHP/mapscript ...

Essentially, we need to tweak our layer's font and color on-the-fly.

Does mapserver support that kind of features inside WMS queries or 
should we use the PHP module ?

Thanks in advance
Gilles Cherix

--
Neu: sunrise hat jetzt noch g?nstigere Surfpreise!
Sofort profitieren!  http://go.sunrise.ch/de/promo1 




From armin.burger at territoriumonline.com  Thu Aug 23 01:36:21 2001
From: armin.burger at territoriumonline.com (Armin Burger)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 10:36:21 +0200
Subject: [mapserver-users] Templates and javascript
Message-ID: <200108230836.KAA17762@efferd.nettz.com>

I got problems when trying to change query template contents using
javascript. In the header template I created an array with the dBase field
names.
....
gFldString = new Array();
...
gFldString[4] = ['[GEMD]', '[GEMI]', '[GEME]'];
....

Then in the query template I wanted to change the field based on another
variable (here the language for a multilingual application). I put in the
template

...
<td>[AREA]</td>
<td><script language=JavaScript>document.write(gFldString[4][thelanguage]);<
/script></td>
...
with "thelanguage" between 0 and 2.

This way the field name like [GEMD] instead of the field value is written
into the output table. When I try it with

<td><script language=JavaScript>document.write('[GEMD]');</script></td>

the field values are written correctly. I havent an idea why the string
'[GEMD]' is treated different when inserted directly and when taken from an
array.

Any help appreciated.

Armin

--
Armin Burger
Territorium Online
Siemensstrasse/Via Siemens 19 - 39100 Bozen/Bolzano - Italia
_


From eduardo at metodoinv.com.br  Thu Aug 23 02:55:58 2001
From: eduardo at metodoinv.com.br (Eduardo Patto Kanegae)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 06:55:58 -0300
Subject: [mapserver-users] template as PHP file
Message-ID: <000c01c12bb9$d0866fa0$2803030a@intranet>

is there any way of using a PHP file (or perl one) as the TEMPLATE property?
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From jimburnett at ntelos.net  Thu Aug 23 05:44:19 2001
From: jimburnett at ntelos.net (Jim Burnett)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:44:19 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] basic search question
Message-ID: <003601c12bd1$53d7dee0$2f01a8c0@morpheus>

Can I do a seach on my standard database(mysql) for an address, and then pop up the parcel(map) based on my search?

So, can I create a map, based on search results?
I know I can click in the map, and query were I am clicking, but I want to do the opposite, and do a search, then display the map....




-jim

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From kenboss at dilbert.dnr.state.mn.us  Thu Aug 23 07:56:57 2001
From: kenboss at dilbert.dnr.state.mn.us (kenboss)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:56:57 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] basic search question
Message-ID: <200108231456.f7NEuv511193@philbert.dnr.state.mn.us>

It's been a while, but I'll take a shot.  I can think of a couple of ways to get there.  

If you have x,y coordinates for the centers of your parcels in your mysql database, you can just run 
your search, grab the results, and redirect to a url like:

http://myserver.com/cgi-bin/mapserver?map=parcel.map&mapxy=x_from_mysql+y_from_mysql&scale=150000


If you have a common unique parcel ID in both the mysql database and the parcels shapefile, you can 
grab that ID from your search and then redirect to something like:

http://myserver.com/cgi-bin/mapserver?map=parcel.map&qlayer=parcels&mode=itemquery&item=parcelID&value
=unique_ID_from_mysql

In turn, in your mapfile your parcels layer would have a query template like:

http://myserver.com/cgi-bin/mapserver?map=parcel.map&mapext=[shpext]

to display the map.

At least, that's how I'd approach it from ms_3.3.  I understand itemquery has changed in 3.5, and 
there may be better ways to get there.



Hope this helps,

--Ken Boss
  MN DNR Forestry Resource Assessment


> From: "Jim Burnett" <jimburnett at ntelos.net>
> To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
> Subject: [mapserver-users] basic search question
> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:44:19 -0400
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> X-Priority: 3
> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200
> 
> Can I do a seach on my standard database(mysql) for an address, and then pop up the parcel(map) 
based on my search?
> 
> So, can I create a map, based on search results?
> I know I can click in the map, and query were I am clicking, but I want to do the opposite, and do a 
search, then display the map....
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -jim
> 



From SDunning at nephrology.org  Thu Aug 23 08:07:21 2001
From: SDunning at nephrology.org (Stephan Dunning)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 10:07:21 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Queryitem
Message-ID: <DF28BB4099A7D311BB3500508B63B7751A1632@mail.nephrology.org>

I'm trying to create some dynamic maps that I can query for information.  I
noticed that queryitem is a read-only value.
Is there any way around this, so I can set the value for a layer's queryitem
based on the data fields in the dBase file, which is also created
dynamically based on the user's original SQL database query.

Thanks for any input,
Stephan


From jimburnett at ntelos.net  Thu Aug 23 08:15:20 2001
From: jimburnett at ntelos.net (Jim Burnett)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:15:20 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] basic search question
References: <200108231456.f7NEuv511193@philbert.dnr.state.mn.us>
Message-ID: <005a01c12be6$6c6f4af0$2f01a8c0@morpheus>

OK great, at least I know it can be done!!!

thanks!!

----- Original Message -----
From: "kenboss" <kenboss at dilbert.dnr.state.mn.us>
To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>; <jimburnett at ntelos.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] basic search question


> It's been a while, but I'll take a shot.  I can think of a couple of ways
to get there.
>
> If you have x,y coordinates for the centers of your parcels in your mysql
database, you can just run
> your search, grab the results, and redirect to a url like:
>
>
http://myserver.com/cgi-bin/mapserver?map=parcel.map&mapxy=x_from_mysql+y_fr
om_mysql&scale=150000
>
>
> If you have a common unique parcel ID in both the mysql database and the
parcels shapefile, you can
> grab that ID from your search and then redirect to something like:
>
>
http://myserver.com/cgi-bin/mapserver?map=parcel.map&qlayer=parcels&mode=ite
mquery&item=parcelID&value
> =unique_ID_from_mysql
>
> In turn, in your mapfile your parcels layer would have a query template
like:
>
> http://myserver.com/cgi-bin/mapserver?map=parcel.map&mapext=[shpext]
>
> to display the map.
>
> At least, that's how I'd approach it from ms_3.3.  I understand itemquery
has changed in 3.5, and
> there may be better ways to get there.
>
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> --Ken Boss
>   MN DNR Forestry Resource Assessment
>
>
> > From: "Jim Burnett" <jimburnett at ntelos.net>
> > To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
> > Subject: [mapserver-users] basic search question
> > Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:44:19 -0400
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > X-Priority: 3
> > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200
> >
> > Can I do a seach on my standard database(mysql) for an address, and then
pop up the parcel(map)
> based on my search?
> >
> > So, can I create a map, based on search results?
> > I know I can click in the map, and query were I am clicking, but I want
to do the opposite, and do a
> search, then display the map....
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -jim
> >
>
>



From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Thu Aug 23 08:24:57 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 10:24:57 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] mapfile tweaking and about WMS
Message-ID: <sb84da0b.061@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

The WMS implementation does not support changing layer properties. You can
do that with the straight CGI implementation and of course via any of the scripting
interfaces.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> <gilles.cherix at freesurf.ch> 08/23/01 02:42AM >>>
Hi all,

We're working on a project using ms3.5 and we have to choose wether we 
should use WMS queries or PHP/mapscript ...

Essentially, we need to tweak our layer's font and color on-the-fly.

Does mapserver support that kind of features inside WMS queries or 
should we use the PHP module ?

Thanks in advance
Gilles Cherix

--
Neu: sunrise hat jetzt noch g?nstigere Surfpreise!
Sofort profitieren!  http://go.sunrise.ch/de/promo1 





From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Thu Aug 23 08:26:16 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 10:26:16 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] 3.5 compilation problems.
Message-ID: <sb84da68.064@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

GD 1.2 is not supported any more. I suspect it doesn't contain the missing
function noted below and hence the error.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> Marcus Dillury <md at socialchange.net> 08/22/01 09:32PM >>>
I am trying to compile a 3.5 build of mapserver on a Redhat 7 Linux box.
I am using the following options with the configuration script.

./configure --with-proj=/usr/local --with-gdal --with-gd=/usr/local/lib/gd-1.2 --with-freetype=/usr/lib

proj-4.4.3
gdal-1.1.5
gd-1.2
freetype-1.3.1-7


The Makefile builds without complaint.
When I run 'make' I get the following problem


gcc -O2  -Wall -DIGNORE_MISSING_DATA  -DUSE_EPPL -DUSE_PROJ
-DUSE_PROJ_API_H -DUSE_WMS  -DUSE_TIFF -DUSE_JPEG -DUSE_GD_GIF
-DUSE_GD_SWAP_XY   -DUSE_GDAL   -I/usr/local/lib/gd-1.2
-I/usr/local/include        -I/usr/local/include   shp2img.o  -L. -lmap
-L/usr/local/lib/gd-1.2 -lgd -ljpeg -L/usr/lib -lttf -lpng -lz -ltiff
-ljpeg -L/usr/lib -lttf -lpng -lz -L/usr/local/lib -lproj -ljpeg
-L/usr/local/lib -lgdal.1.1    -lm   -o shp2img
./libmap.a(mapresample.o): In function `msResampleGDALToMap':
mapresample.o(.text+0xe8e): undefined reference to `gdImagePaletteCopy'
mapresample.o(.text+0xec4): undefined reference to `gdImagePaletteCopy'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [shp2img] Error 1


Does anyone seen this error before? Could I please get some pointers or
advice?

Thanks in advance,

--Marcus




From bfischer at mpls.houstoneng.com  Thu Aug 23 08:34:33 2001
From: bfischer at mpls.houstoneng.com (Brian Fischer)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 10:34:33 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] basic search question
Message-ID: <8879CCE0F0187742B7302A93A8B87B090297EC@mpls.houstoneng.com>

Jim,
 
This could be implemented fairly easy by using the item/value queries.
 
For the record returned by the MySQL search, get the unique field's
value and insert it into an item/value query to draw your map.  You can
put this query directly into an image tag.
 
Ex.) <img src="/projects/sandhill/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=[map]
&mode=itemquery&item=PERMIT_NO&value=2001-01&layers=nhdwb61+nhdreach61"
height="400" width="500">
 
Also take a look at the MapServer Test Suite for more examples of
item/value queries.
http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/mapserver_demos/tests3.5
 
Hope this does the trick,
Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Burnett [mailto:jimburnett at ntelos.net] 
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 7:44 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: [mapserver-users] basic search question
 
Can I do a seach on my standard database(mysql) for an address, and then
pop up the parcel(map) based on my search?
 
So, can I create a map, based on search results?
I know I can click in the map, and query were I am clicking, but I want
to do the opposite, and do a search, then display the map....
 
 
 
 
-jim
 
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From jimburnett at ntelos.net  Thu Aug 23 08:48:53 2001
From: jimburnett at ntelos.net (Jim Burnett)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:48:53 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] basic search question
References: <8879CCE0F0187742B7302A93A8B87B090297EC@mpls.houstoneng.com>
Message-ID: <007301c12beb$1c784ec0$2f01a8c0@morpheus>

Does the same apply with MapScript?


-jim

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brian Fischer 
  To: Jim Burnett 
  Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu 
  Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 11:34 AM
  Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] basic search question


  Jim,

   

  This could be implemented fairly easy by using the item/value queries.

   

  For the record returned by the MySQL search, get the unique field's value and insert it into an item/value query to draw your map.  You can put this query directly into an image tag.

   

  Ex.) <img src="/projects/sandhill/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=[map] &mode=itemquery&item=PERMIT_NO&value=2001-01&layers=nhdwb61+nhdreach61" height="400" width="500">

   

  Also take a look at the MapServer Test Suite for more examples of item/value queries.  http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/mapserver_demos/tests3.5

   

  Hope this does the trick,

  Brian

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Jim Burnett [mailto:jimburnett at ntelos.net] 
  Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 7:44 AM
  To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
  Subject: [mapserver-users] basic search question

   

  Can I do a seach on my standard database(mysql) for an address, and then pop up the parcel(map) based on my search?

   

  So, can I create a map, based on search results?

  I know I can click in the map, and query were I am clicking, but I want to do the opposite, and do a search, then display the map....

   

   

   

   

  -jim

   

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From kames at keyspanenergy.com  Thu Aug 23 08:43:59 2001
From: kames at keyspanenergy.com (Kieran J. Ames)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:43:59 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Java Applet Development
References: <sb77bdcc.050@ns105s.kamloops.city>
Message-ID: <3B8524BF.7B1991AB@keyspanenergy.com>

Thanks to all for the input. However, I must have some kind of MENTAL
BLOCK going on. I can't seem to visualize the link from a Perl generated
MAP file to the ROSA applet.
I usually create my shapefiles and mapfile on the fly based on user
input and deliver the user to a page containing the mapimage applet...
(my mapserver template file).

I can't make the leap over to the Rosa applet. Would I merely build a
page on-the-fly using Perl and point to the image I made with the
Mapserver cgi? If so, how would I define PIXEL_SIZE? And what about
zooming? The ec_species_e.phtml  FORM action points to
ec_species_e.phtml and this is a PHP interface. What would I point to to
have Perl/Mapserver get involved to create a new image.

Thanks so much in advance. Sorry if this is basic stuff, but like I
said... I just haven't been able to make the connection between these
two environments!
Kieran


Janet Ciavarelli wrote:

> Is the Rosa applet only available in the PHP environment?
>
> >>> Daniel Morissette <morissette at dmsolutions.ca> 08/13/01 07:29AM >>>
>
> Kieran,
>
> The ROSA applet can do exactly that... see section "4 - distance
> measurement tool" in the ROSA docs at
> http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/webtools/rosa/rosa_params.html
>
> You can see an example of it in use in Environment Canada's species at
>
> risk application at
> http://www.sis.ec.gc.ca/msapps/ec_species/htdocs/ec_species_e.phtml
>
> The measured distance is displayed in the status bar of the browser
> window... no need to say that the distance is only approximative due
> to
> the projection issues that you mentioned.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Daniel
>
> "Kieran J. Ames" wrote:
> >
> > Are there any users/developers who have played with a Java interface
> to
> > MapServer data, other than the wonderful mapimage applet?
> > I'm thinking of a measuring tool that could be used to make a
> > rudimentary ruler, where a user could click from
> > point-to-point-to-point, drawing a line and getting an indication of
> the
> > length of the line that was drawn.
> > The maps I render are typically only in the "town/neighborhood"
> range,
> > and I can't speak to great-circles, projections vs decimal degrees,
> etc.
> > But I would think that a map that has a given extent would have some
>
> > sort of distance per pixel value that could be calculated and
> applied to
> > a line drawing tool. Specifically, I'd like to be able to offer the
> user
> > the ability to get an Ad-Hoc distance estimate when viewing a
> > neighborhood by "tracing" a line over the streets they're viewing
> and
> > figure out how many linear feet (meters/yards) were traveled: as
> opposed
> > to "as the crow flies" straight line distances.
> > Any Java-wise users out there that have explored this kind of
> > functionality?
> > Thanks,
> > Kieran



From jimburnett at ntelos.net  Thu Aug 23 09:14:53 2001
From: jimburnett at ntelos.net (Jim Burnett)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:14:53 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] basic search question
References: <200108231456.f7NEuv511193@philbert.dnr.state.mn.us>
Message-ID: <008701c12bee$be187810$2f01a8c0@morpheus>

what about with MapScript?

----- Original Message -----
From: "kenboss" <kenboss at dilbert.dnr.state.mn.us>
To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>; <jimburnett at ntelos.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] basic search question


> It's been a while, but I'll take a shot.  I can think of a couple of ways
to get there.
>
> If you have x,y coordinates for the centers of your parcels in your mysql
database, you can just run
> your search, grab the results, and redirect to a url like:
>
>
http://myserver.com/cgi-bin/mapserver?map=parcel.map&mapxy=x_from_mysql+y_fr
om_mysql&scale=150000
>
>
> If you have a common unique parcel ID in both the mysql database and the
parcels shapefile, you can
> grab that ID from your search and then redirect to something like:
>
>
http://myserver.com/cgi-bin/mapserver?map=parcel.map&qlayer=parcels&mode=ite
mquery&item=parcelID&value
> =unique_ID_from_mysql
>
> In turn, in your mapfile your parcels layer would have a query template
like:
>
> http://myserver.com/cgi-bin/mapserver?map=parcel.map&mapext=[shpext]
>
> to display the map.
>
> At least, that's how I'd approach it from ms_3.3.  I understand itemquery
has changed in 3.5, and
> there may be better ways to get there.
>
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> --Ken Boss
>   MN DNR Forestry Resource Assessment
>
>
> > From: "Jim Burnett" <jimburnett at ntelos.net>
> > To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
> > Subject: [mapserver-users] basic search question
> > Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:44:19 -0400
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > X-Priority: 3
> > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200
> >
> > Can I do a seach on my standard database(mysql) for an address, and then
pop up the parcel(map)
> based on my search?
> >
> > So, can I create a map, based on search results?
> > I know I can click in the map, and query were I am clicking, but I want
to do the opposite, and do a
> search, then display the map....
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -jim
> >
>
>



From jimburnett at ntelos.net  Thu Aug 23 10:41:11 2001
From: jimburnett at ntelos.net (Jim Burnett)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:41:11 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] basic search question
References: <200108231456.f7NEuv511193@philbert.dnr.state.mn.us>
Message-ID: <00a701c12bfa$ccb6b970$2f01a8c0@morpheus>

ok, if I want to display just 1 item, say a parcel.....how would I blow it
up to full extent?

This is what is working, I can search my sql database by person's name and
get the parcel_id. I can also show on the map were the parcel is using the
code below.

Now I want to make that little parcel, blow up full screen. Do I have to set
extents?

-jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "kenboss" <kenboss at dilbert.dnr.state.mn.us>
To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>; <jimburnett at ntelos.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] basic search question


> It's been a while, but I'll take a shot.  I can think of a couple of ways
to get there.
>
> If you have x,y coordinates for the centers of your parcels in your mysql
database, you can just run
> your search, grab the results, and redirect to a url like:
>
>
http://myserver.com/cgi-bin/mapserver?map=parcel.map&mapxy=x_from_mysql+y_fr
om_mysql&scale=150000
>
>
> If you have a common unique parcel ID in both the mysql database and the
parcels shapefile, you can
> grab that ID from your search and then redirect to something like:
>
>
http://myserver.com/cgi-bin/mapserver?map=parcel.map&qlayer=parcels&mode=ite
mquery&item=parcelID&value
> =unique_ID_from_mysql
>
> In turn, in your mapfile your parcels layer would have a query template
like:
>
> http://myserver.com/cgi-bin/mapserver?map=parcel.map&mapext=[shpext]
>
> to display the map.
>
> At least, that's how I'd approach it from ms_3.3.  I understand itemquery
has changed in 3.5, and
> there may be better ways to get there.
>
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> --Ken Boss
>   MN DNR Forestry Resource Assessment
>
>
> > From: "Jim Burnett" <jimburnett at ntelos.net>
> > To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
> > Subject: [mapserver-users] basic search question
> > Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:44:19 -0400
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > X-Priority: 3
> > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200
> >
> > Can I do a seach on my standard database(mysql) for an address, and then
pop up the parcel(map)
> based on my search?
> >
> > So, can I create a map, based on search results?
> > I know I can click in the map, and query were I am clicking, but I want
to do the opposite, and do a
> search, then display the map....
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -jim
> >
>
>



From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Thu Aug 23 10:55:47 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:55:47 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Templates and javascript
Message-ID: <sb84fd75.091@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

The array access syntax looks wrong. Shouldn't gFldString[4][thelanguage] be
gFldString[thelanguage]?

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> Armin Burger <armin.burger at territoriumonline.com> 08/23/01 03:36AM >>>
I got problems when trying to change query template contents using
javascript. In the header template I created an array with the dBase field
names.
....
gFldString = new Array();
...
gFldString[4] = ['[GEMD]', '[GEMI]', '[GEME]'];
....

Then in the query template I wanted to change the field based on another
variable (here the language for a multilingual application). I put in the
template

...
<td>[AREA]</td>
<td><script language=JavaScript>document.write(gFldString[4][thelanguage]);<
/script></td>
...
with "thelanguage" between 0 and 2.

This way the field name like [GEMD] instead of the field value is written
into the output table. When I try it with

<td><script language=JavaScript>document.write('[GEMD]');</script></td>

the field values are written correctly. I havent an idea why the string
'[GEMD]' is treated different when inserted directly and when taken from an
array.

Any help appreciated.

Armin

--
Armin Burger
Territorium Online
Siemensstrasse/Via Siemens 19 - 39100 Bozen/Bolzano - Italia
_



From kenboss at dilbert.dnr.state.mn.us  Thu Aug 23 11:32:29 2001
From: kenboss at dilbert.dnr.state.mn.us (kenboss)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:32:29 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] basic search question
Message-ID: <200108231832.f7NIWT511636@philbert.dnr.state.mn.us>

Jim--

Did you mean to include some code, or were you referring to one of my examples?

Basically, to get a blowup of the feature, I think you just need to use

&mapext=[shpext]

in the query template for the layer that you're querying via itemquery.

As for doing this sort of thing using mapscript, I'm sure it's doable using the 
DBI perl module for mysql access and the XBase module for access to the 
shapefile attributes (assuming you are in fact using shapefiles).  I don't have 
any examples of that sort of thing in mapscript, but conceptually I think it'd 
go something like this:

Search mysql on whatever and grab the associated parcel_id.
Search the dbf file for the parcel_id and grab the associated record number.
Use the record number from the .dbf file as an index to the shape you're after 
and grab the associated extent. 
Use the extent of the shape as your map extent and draw your map.  

--Ken

> From: "Jim Burnett" <jimburnett at ntelos.net>
> To: "kenboss" <kenboss at dilbert.dnr.state.mn.us>, 
<mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] basic search question
> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:41:11 -0400
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> X-Priority: 3
> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200
> 
> ok, if I want to display just 1 item, say a parcel.....how would I blow it
> up to full extent?
> 
> This is what is working, I can search my sql database by person's name and
> get the parcel_id. I can also show on the map were the parcel is using the
> code below.
> 
> Now I want to make that little parcel, blow up full screen. Do I have to set
> extents?
> 
> -jim
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "kenboss" <kenboss at dilbert.dnr.state.mn.us>
> To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>; <jimburnett at ntelos.net>
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 10:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] basic search question
> 
> 
> > It's been a while, but I'll take a shot.  I can think of a couple of ways
> to get there.
> >
> > If you have x,y coordinates for the centers of your parcels in your mysql
> database, you can just run
> > your search, grab the results, and redirect to a url like:
> >
> >
> http://myserver.com/cgi-bin/mapserver?map=parcel.map&mapxy=x_from_mysql+y_fr
> om_mysql&scale=150000
> >
> >
> > If you have a common unique parcel ID in both the mysql database and the
> parcels shapefile, you can
> > grab that ID from your search and then redirect to something like:
> >
> >
> http://myserver.com/cgi-bin/mapserver?map=parcel.map&qlayer=parcels&mode=ite
> mquery&item=parcelID&value
> > =unique_ID_from_mysql
> >
> > In turn, in your mapfile your parcels layer would have a query template
> like:
> >
> > http://myserver.com/cgi-bin/mapserver?map=parcel.map&mapext=[shpext]
> >
> > to display the map.
> >
> > At least, that's how I'd approach it from ms_3.3.  I understand itemquery
> has changed in 3.5, and
> > there may be better ways to get there.
> >
> >
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > --Ken Boss
> >   MN DNR Forestry Resource Assessment
> >
> >
> > > From: "Jim Burnett" <jimburnett at ntelos.net>
> > > To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
> > > Subject: [mapserver-users] basic search question
> > > Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:44:19 -0400
> > > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > > X-Priority: 3
> > > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> > > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200
> > >
> > > Can I do a seach on my standard database(mysql) for an address, and then
> pop up the parcel(map)
> > based on my search?
> > >
> > > So, can I create a map, based on search results?
> > > I know I can click in the map, and query were I am clicking, but I want
> to do the opposite, and do a
> > search, then display the map....
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -jim
> > >
> >
> >
> 



From bfischer at mpls.houstoneng.com  Thu Aug 23 12:02:21 2001
From: bfischer at mpls.houstoneng.com (Brian Fischer)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:02:21 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] basic search question
Message-ID: <8879CCE0F0187742B7302A93A8B87B090284B3@mpls.houstoneng.com>

Basically you have to add a mapextent to the URL, couple of different
options to construct the map extent.

1.)	&mapxy=[shpmid]&buffer=5000
2.)	&mapext=[shpext]
3.)	&mapext=[shpminx]+[shpminy]+[shpmaxx]+[shpmaxy]

-brian

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Burnett [mailto:jimburnett at ntelos.net] 
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 12:41 PM
To: kenboss; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] basic search question

ok, if I want to display just 1 item, say a parcel.....how would I blow
it
up to full extent?

This is what is working, I can search my sql database by person's name
and
get the parcel_id. I can also show on the map were the parcel is using
the
code below.

Now I want to make that little parcel, blow up full screen. Do I have to
set
extents?

-jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "kenboss" <kenboss at dilbert.dnr.state.mn.us>
To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>; <jimburnett at ntelos.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] basic search question


> It's been a while, but I'll take a shot.  I can think of a couple of
ways
to get there.
>
> If you have x,y coordinates for the centers of your parcels in your
mysql
database, you can just run
> your search, grab the results, and redirect to a url like:
>
>
http://myserver.com/cgi-bin/mapserver?map=parcel.map&mapxy=x_from_mysql+
y_fr
om_mysql&scale=150000
>
>
> If you have a common unique parcel ID in both the mysql database and
the
parcels shapefile, you can
> grab that ID from your search and then redirect to something like:
>
>
http://myserver.com/cgi-bin/mapserver?map=parcel.map&qlayer=parcels&mode
=ite
mquery&item=parcelID&value
> =unique_ID_from_mysql
>
> In turn, in your mapfile your parcels layer would have a query
template
like:
>
> http://myserver.com/cgi-bin/mapserver?map=parcel.map&mapext=[shpext]
>
> to display the map.
>
> At least, that's how I'd approach it from ms_3.3.  I understand
itemquery
has changed in 3.5, and
> there may be better ways to get there.
>
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> --Ken Boss
>   MN DNR Forestry Resource Assessment
>
>
> > From: "Jim Burnett" <jimburnett at ntelos.net>
> > To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
> > Subject: [mapserver-users] basic search question
> > Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:44:19 -0400
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > X-Priority: 3
> > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200
> >
> > Can I do a seach on my standard database(mysql) for an address, and
then
pop up the parcel(map)
> based on my search?
> >
> > So, can I create a map, based on search results?
> > I know I can click in the map, and query were I am clicking, but I
want
to do the opposite, and do a
> search, then display the map....
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -jim
> >
>
>



From sjohnston at satshot.com  Thu Aug 23 07:44:42 2001
From: sjohnston at satshot.com (Shawn L Johnston)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:44:42 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] maximum number of classes
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0108231436130.10734-100000@planb.satshot.com>

Is this limit the maximum number of layers (and maximum number of classes
per layer) or is this the maximum number of layers/classes that can be
displayed at any one time?

Cheers,

Shawn



>Hey, they seemed like reasonable limits at the time. The current limit on
layers is 100, and for classes it's 50. You can certainly change them, but
not at runtime. You'll have to edit map.h and change the values for
MS_MAXLAYERS and MS_MAXCLASSES to suit your needs and re-compile.

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst Minnesota DNR
500 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155

651-297-2937 >>> Nicolau Werneck <nwerneck at yahoo.com.br> 08/09/01 06:01PM
>>>
  The documentation says that there's a maximum number
of 50 layers possibe to define in a map file... Is
there also a maximum number of 50 classes to be
defined on a layer???   Whyyyyy? :( ++nicolau



From Chip.Hankley at GASAI.Com  Thu Aug 23 13:06:35 2001
From: Chip.Hankley at GASAI.Com (Hankley, Chip)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:06:35 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] PHP -> PNG
Message-ID: <3DFF131E4E6D2D4198CDD758F35A53536E3E3A@postoffice.GASAI.Com>

OK...I'm feeling pretty ignorant.

I am developing ALL of my Mapserver apps using PHP mapscript. Right now I'm
using PHP 4.0.4pl1.

I'm thinking about converting to PNG...and I thought all I would have to do
was change the version of mapserv.exe from the GIF version to the PNG
version... but I guess that's not the case (OK, in retrospect, I should have
figured that out...I started out using MapServer in the cgi-bin, as in the
tutorial.)

Anyway, I'm gathering now that when using PHP-Mapscript, Mapserver is
embodied in the php_mapscript_34.dll, and has nothing to do with what is in
cgi-bin.

To make php-mapscript generate PNG instead of GIF, do I need to find someone
to compile it with a different version of GD? Anyone done this willing to
share? Does the version for 3.5 do PNG?

Thanks!

Chip


From bfischer at mpls.houstoneng.com  Thu Aug 23 13:06:08 2001
From: bfischer at mpls.houstoneng.com (Brian Fischer)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:06:08 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Mapplet
Message-ID: <8879CCE0F0187742B7302A93A8B87B090297F0@mpls.houstoneng.com>

I am trying to add components of Steve Lime's mapplet into my MapServer
application.  The question I have is how do I call the boxon and boxoff
public methods in the mapplet.  The idea is when a user clicks on the
identify button I need to turn the box drawing option off.  Then when
they click on the zoomin button to turn it back on.
 
I have javascript functions set up to do things when the buttons are
clicked. How do I call the public methods from within a javascript
function?  I have javascript functions set up to do things when the
buttons are clicked.  Do I need to define the box parameter in the
applet to make this work?
 
 
Brian
 
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From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Thu Aug 23 13:21:57 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:21:57 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] maximum number of classes
Message-ID: <sb851fae.037@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

The limits apply to what can be present in a mapfile. Since display is tied to a mapfile
then I guess the limit applies there to.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> Shawn L Johnston <sjohnston at satshot.com> 08/23/01 09:44AM >>>
Is this limit the maximum number of layers (and maximum number of classes
per layer) or is this the maximum number of layers/classes that can be
displayed at any one time?

Cheers,

Shawn



>Hey, they seemed like reasonable limits at the time. The current limit on
layers is 100, and for classes it's 50. You can certainly change them, but
not at runtime. You'll have to edit map.h and change the values for
MS_MAXLAYERS and MS_MAXCLASSES to suit your needs and re-compile.

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst Minnesota DNR
500 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155

651-297-2937 >>> Nicolau Werneck <nwerneck at yahoo.com.br> 08/09/01 06:01PM
>>>
  The documentation says that there's a maximum number
of 50 layers possibe to define in a map file... Is
there also a maximum number of 50 classes to be
defined on a layer???   Whyyyyy? :( ++nicolau




From assefa at dmsolutions.ca  Thu Aug 23 13:45:23 2001
From: assefa at dmsolutions.ca (Assefa Yewondwossen)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:45:23 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] PHP -> PNG
References: <3DFF131E4E6D2D4198CDD758F35A53536E3E3A@postoffice.GASAI.Com>
Message-ID: <3B856B63.BC3C9350@dmsolutions.ca>

Hi,

 There are sevral php_mapscript.dll (depnding on the php version and the
mapserver version)on our download site with a PNG support compiled in it :
http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/webtools/dl/.

Later,

"Hankley, Chip" wrote:

> OK...I'm feeling pretty ignorant.
>
> I am developing ALL of my Mapserver apps using PHP mapscript. Right now I'm
> using PHP 4.0.4pl1.
>
> I'm thinking about converting to PNG...and I thought all I would have to do
> was change the version of mapserv.exe from the GIF version to the PNG
> version... but I guess that's not the case (OK, in retrospect, I should have
> figured that out...I started out using MapServer in the cgi-bin, as in the
> tutorial.)
>
> Anyway, I'm gathering now that when using PHP-Mapscript, Mapserver is
> embodied in the php_mapscript_34.dll, and has nothing to do with what is in
> cgi-bin.
>
> To make php-mapscript generate PNG instead of GIF, do I need to find someone
> to compile it with a different version of GD? Anyone done this willing to
> share? Does the version for 3.5 do PNG?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chip

--
----------------------------------------------------------------
Assefa Yewondwossen
Software Analyst

Email: assefa at dmsolutions.ca
http://www.dmsolutions.ca/

Phone: (613) 565-5056
----------------------------------------------------------------




From Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca  Thu Aug 23 15:41:54 2001
From: Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca (Doyon, Jean-Francois)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 18:41:54 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Perl/Mapscript - CVS Version
Message-ID: <7CDD7B94357FD5119E800002A537C46E22FBAF@s5-ccr-r1.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca>

Hello,

I'm getting this on RedHat 7.1:

[root at www-gad2 perl]# perl Makefile.PL 
-I/usr/src/mapserver -I/usr/local/include
-L/usr/src/mapserver -lmap -lgd -L/usr/local/lib -lgd -ljpeg -lfreetype
-lpng -lz -ltiff -ljpeg -lfreetype -lpng -lz -lproj -ljpeg -L/usr/lib -lmd5
-lwwwxml -lxmltok -lxmlparse -lwwwzip -lwwwinit -lwwwapp -lwwwhtml
-lwwwtelnet -lwwwnews -lwwwhttp -lwwwmime -lwwwgopher -lwwwftp -lwwwfile
-lwwwdir -lwwwcache -lwwwstream -lwwwmux -lwwwtrans -lwwwcore -lwwwutils
-ldl -lz -lm
Writing Makefile for mapscript
[root at www-gad2 perl]# make
cp mapscript.pm blib/lib/mapscript.pm
cc -c -I/usr/src/mapserver -I/usr/local/include -D_REENTRANT
-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2   -DVERSION=\"0.10\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.10\" -fpic
-I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i686-linux-thread-multi/CORE
-DIGNORE_MISSING_DATA -DUSE_EPPL -DUSE_PROJ -DUSE_PROJ_API_H -DUSE_TIFF
-DUSE_JPEG -DUSE_GD_GIF -DUSE_GD_PNG -DUSE_GD_JPEG -DUSE_GD_WBMP -DUSE_GD_FT
-DGD_HAS_GDIMAGEGIFPTR mapscript_wrap.c
mapscript_wrap.c: In function `_swig_create_magic':
mapscript_wrap.c:416: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
mapscript_wrap.c:417: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
mapscript_wrap.c: At top level:
mapscript_wrap.c:15941: conflicting types for `boot_mapscript'
mapscript_wrap.c:431: previous declaration of `boot_mapscript'
make: *** [mapscript_wrap.o] Error 1
[root at www-gad2 perl]# 

I was using the CVS version and SWIG 1.3.6 and getting the exact same
prolblem, so I got the nightly build instead, same thing ...

Any ideas ?

Thanks!

Jean-Fran?ois Doyon
Internet Service Development and Systems Support
GeoAccess Division
Canadian Center for Remote Sensing
Natural Resources Canada
http://atlas.gc.ca
Phone: (613) 992-4902
Fax: (613) 947-2410



From Matt.Wilkie at gov.yk.ca  Thu Aug 23 17:18:22 2001
From: Matt.Wilkie at gov.yk.ca (Matt.Wilkie)
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:18:22 -0700
Subject: [mapserver-users] very large image handling & serving?
Message-ID: <6DD7370C9452D31192A10008C75D07530BA1B27F@raptor.gov.yk.ca>

Hi All,

What is the current state of open source / free software solutions
for handling and serving very large images?

Please reply to me directly and I will summarize the responses back
to the lists in about a week.

The goal is to serve up ortho-mosaics with the following dimensions 
and size (uncompressed):

RAW MOSAIC
30 metre Standard: 	37,000 x 32,000 pixels = ~ 1.2gig
15 metre Panchromatic:	74,000 x 64,000 pixels = ~ 4.8gig
60 metre Thermal:       18,500 x 16,000 pixels = ~ 296 meg

IMAGE PRODUCTS 
30 metre RGB Composite      =  1.2gig x 3  =  3.6gig
15 metre Enhanced Composite =  3.6gig x 4  = 14.4 gig

The user would display a decimated reference image of the entire mosaic and
draw a selection box to select their area of interest.
This could be via a web or standalone app. Most areas of interest
would probably not be larger than screen size (eg. 1280x1064). 

Clients would require everything from full resolution 1to1 images
for remote sensing analysis to decimated "web-ready" screen shots.

Other notes:

- clients are desktop publishing apps (Word, Excel, Publisher, 
Illustrator, PhotoShop), low end GIS (ArcView, MapInfo), high
end GIS/RS (ArcInfo v7&8, PCI), and web browsers (IE, NS).

- Mutli-segmented intranet, Windows NT 4 domain servers

- hardware of the server is yet determined but is not likely to 
be that good, at least initially (eg. ~1ghz, 768mb ram, IDE RAID)

- the sysadmins are all mostly Win32 based, the *nix expertise is
limited thus any *nix-based solution must be GUI and and should be
WIMP friendly.

- there is a non-trivial amount of ESRI inertia, thus for 
Mapserver to win out over ArcIMS there must be compelling 
arguments with pretty pictures.

- there is a non-trivial amount of Microsoft inertia, thus more
compelling arguments and more pretty pictures.

I have no idea what the actual demand on the server will be, but
potentially a lot -- 595 computers spread over 21 subnets on the
intranet just answered to "net view".

The results of this query are not likely to be implemented by
myself; I will be writing it up a report and passing on 
recommendations.



-matt

-----------------------------------------------------------------
Matt Wilkie * Yukon Renewable Resources GIS
http://renres.gov.yk.ca/pubs/rrgis/
-----------------------------------------------------------------


From drish at bigpond.net.au  Thu Aug 23 19:50:12 2001
From: drish at bigpond.net.au (Drew)
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:50:12 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] newbie problems
Message-ID: <06ea01c12c47$ab908580$0300000a@dhr>

Ok, I'm still dealing with 4 basic problems:

1. the bounding box on the reference map is showing up in the wrong place
2. I can't figure out how to get GPS coordinates displayed to the user by
clicking the map
3. I can't figure out how to plot sites on the map based on GPS coordinates
4. The labels in my point layer show up as dots (when I have the layer on),
I was told there's a problem with DGN to SHP conversion

With problem 1, I tried using ogrinfo on my tileindex file to get the
extents, and that was off, I also tried using an updated tile4ms.c which got
the extents of each tile, and figured out the overall extents, but that one
put the bounding box off the map. I tried changing the UNITS to every
possible type, didn't work either.

In problem 2, I'm not really sure where to start. My data is DGN converted
to Shapefiles, and I'm not sure if they contain any GPS info, and if they
do, what type. I now have access to request custom data types from the
supplier for the same area, would it be easier if the data was in a certain
format? If so, what would be ideal, and what exactly would I ask for?

I think problem 3 relies on fixing problem 2.

Problem 4 could be solved if I had an ideal data type, again, what exactly
would I ask for?

here's a URL of what I have so far
http://melbwireless.dyndns.org/~drew/dev/itasca/test.html
here's my .map file http://melbwireless.dyndns.org/~drew/dev/itasca/demo.map

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Drew



From armin.burger at territoriumonline.com  Fri Aug 24 01:01:06 2001
From: armin.burger at territoriumonline.com (Armin Burger)
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 10:01:06 +0200
Subject: [mapserver-users] Templates and javascript
Message-ID: <200108240801.KAA03296@efferd.nettz.com>

Steve,
The document.write() should take the sub-array at position 4 out of the main
array and from this sub-array take the string at position indicated by
thelanguage. When I use gFldString[thelanguage] the whole sub-array at
position 'thelanguage' is printed.

When I try another definition of the array with
   var aGem = new Array('[GEMD]', '[GEMI]', '[GEMI]');
and then
   <td><script
language=JavaScript1.2>document.write(aGem[thelanguage]);</script>
then the results are the same: the field name taken as string from the array
instead of the field value is printed.

I don't know if that is  a special behaviour of javascript. I was thinking a
string is a string, no matter if you take it out of an array or if you give
it directly.

Another problem with bi/multi-lingual applications is the map file. I'd had
to change too many map file values for class names, label fields, etc. to
include that in the url. I see following possibilities
* a map file for every language: causing redundancy but the easiest way
* creating the map file on the fly (with perl or php): don't know how to
access this map file. Any sample sites?
* using mapscript: means a complete new application.
Any other suggestions?

Thanks
Armin


> The array access syntax looks wrong. Shouldn't gFldString[4][thelanguage]
be
> gFldString[thelanguage]?

> Steve

> Stephen Lime
> Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>>> Armin Burger <armin.burger at territoriumonline.com> 08/23/01 03:36AM >>>
> I got problems when trying to change query template contents using
> javascript. In the header template I created an array with the dBase field
> names.
> ....
> gFldString = new Array();
> ...
> gFldString[4] = ['[GEMD]', '[GEMI]', '[GEME]'];
> ....

> Then in the query template I wanted to change the field based on another
> variable (here the language for a multilingual application). I put in the
> template

> ...
> <td>[AREA]</td>
> <td><script
language=JavaScript>document.write(gFldString[4][thelanguage]);<
> /script></td>
> ...
> with "thelanguage" between 0 and 2.

> This way the field name like [GEMD] instead of the field value is written
> into the output table. When I try it with

> <td><script language=JavaScript>document.write('[GEMD]');</script></td>

> the field values are written correctly. I havent an idea why the string
> '[GEMD]' is treated different when inserted directly and when taken from
an
> array.

> Any help appreciated.

> Armin

> --
> Armin Burger
> Territorium Online
> Siemensstrasse/Via Siemens 19 - 39100 Bozen/Bolzano - Italia
> _



--
Armin Burger
Territorium Online
Siemensstrasse/Via Siemens 19 - 39100 Bozen/Bolzano - Italia
email: armin.burger at territoriumonline.com
http://www.territoriumonline.com
tel: +39-0471-568185 / fax -- 568078


From pauls at SCCWRP.ORG  Fri Aug 24 07:11:20 2001
From: pauls at SCCWRP.ORG (Paul Smith)
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 07:11:20 -0700
Subject: [mapserver-users] query feature
Message-ID: <3B866087.6CE80994@sccwrp.org>

I have mapserver on two test machines, one windows and the other linux.
They both are running mapserver 3.4, with gd 1.2.  I can run the test
map I've built on both, and almost everything seems to be working the
same.  The problem is the "query feature" and "query multiple" doesn't
seem to work on the linux box.  Instead of grabbing the record out of
the dbf file, like it does on the windows box, it just hangs.  The only
item I can see differently between the two builds is that the windows
box has proj.4 and the linux box doesn't.  Anyone have any ideas,
pointers?  Is the problem a pathway I am missing somewhere in a
configuration file, or is it that I am missing some software?  Any help
would be appreciated.  Thanks.


Paul Smith



From tjamison at observera.com  Fri Aug 24 09:28:05 2001
From: tjamison at observera.com (Todd Jamison)
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:28:05 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Re: [OSRS] very large image handling & serving?
References: <6DD7370C9452D31192A10008C75D07530BA1B27F@raptor.gov.yk.ca>
Message-ID: <3B868021.490D9503@observera.com>

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From ed at topozone.com  Fri Aug 24 10:54:16 2001
From: ed at topozone.com (Ed McNierney)
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 13:54:16 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] very large image handling & serving?
Message-ID: <13858AA1A74F30419F319ACB66A9D122019178@mercator.topozone.com>

Matt -

It's not how big it is, it's what you do with it that counts.

We're running a MapServer application on a single Windows 2000 server
that's serving dozens of datalayers, several of which are raster
imagery, and one of which is about 600 gigabytes of images.  If you
organize, tile, and index your imagery well, there should be no problem
at all hosting enormous amounts of imagery on a single MapServer system.

The reason that's the case is because well-organized imagery will cause
MapServer to only focus on the relatively small number of source images
you need to create a requested map view.  Since the vast majority of the
imagery is ignored for any one request, it really doesn't matter if
there are 100K of other files lying around untouched or 3 terabytes of
other files lying around untouched.  They're untouched and have no
impact on the request.

You should be MUCH more concerned about characterizing your user
activity.  You're worrying about the wrong thing.  By far the biggest
question you need to answer is how many images (of what size) need to be
served each minute?  Understanding what your user scenario and usage
patterns will be like are the most important variables in answering your
questions.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com
ed at topozone.com
(978) 251-4242


-----Original Message-----
From: Matt.Wilkie [mailto:Matt.Wilkie at gov.yk.ca]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 8:18 PM
To: freegis-list at intevation.de
Cc: osrs at remotesensing.org; mapserver-users at lists. gis. umn. edu
(E-mail)
Subject: [mapserver-users] very large image handling & serving?


Hi All,

What is the current state of open source / free software solutions
for handling and serving very large images?

Please reply to me directly and I will summarize the responses back
to the lists in about a week.

The goal is to serve up ortho-mosaics with the following dimensions 
and size (uncompressed):

RAW MOSAIC
30 metre Standard: 	37,000 x 32,000 pixels = ~ 1.2gig
15 metre Panchromatic:	74,000 x 64,000 pixels = ~ 4.8gig
60 metre Thermal:       18,500 x 16,000 pixels = ~ 296 meg

IMAGE PRODUCTS 
30 metre RGB Composite      =  1.2gig x 3  =  3.6gig
15 metre Enhanced Composite =  3.6gig x 4  = 14.4 gig

The user would display a decimated reference image of the entire mosaic
and
draw a selection box to select their area of interest.
This could be via a web or standalone app. Most areas of interest
would probably not be larger than screen size (eg. 1280x1064). 

Clients would require everything from full resolution 1to1 images
for remote sensing analysis to decimated "web-ready" screen shots.

Other notes:

- clients are desktop publishing apps (Word, Excel, Publisher, 
Illustrator, PhotoShop), low end GIS (ArcView, MapInfo), high
end GIS/RS (ArcInfo v7&8, PCI), and web browsers (IE, NS).

- Mutli-segmented intranet, Windows NT 4 domain servers

- hardware of the server is yet determined but is not likely to 
be that good, at least initially (eg. ~1ghz, 768mb ram, IDE RAID)

- the sysadmins are all mostly Win32 based, the *nix expertise is
limited thus any *nix-based solution must be GUI and and should be
WIMP friendly.

- there is a non-trivial amount of ESRI inertia, thus for 
Mapserver to win out over ArcIMS there must be compelling 
arguments with pretty pictures.

- there is a non-trivial amount of Microsoft inertia, thus more
compelling arguments and more pretty pictures.

I have no idea what the actual demand on the server will be, but
potentially a lot -- 595 computers spread over 21 subnets on the
intranet just answered to "net view".

The results of this query are not likely to be implemented by
myself; I will be writing it up a report and passing on 
recommendations.



-matt

-----------------------------------------------------------------
Matt Wilkie * Yukon Renewable Resources GIS
http://renres.gov.yk.ca/pubs/rrgis/
-----------------------------------------------------------------


From Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca  Fri Aug 24 11:25:41 2001
From: Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca (Doyon, Jean-Francois)
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:25:41 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Perl/Mapscript - CVS Version
Message-ID: <7CDD7B94357FD5119E800002A537C46E22FBB9@s5-ccr-r1.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca>

That didn't do it ... exact same error ... Could it be due to the fact that
I built my perl with threading support ? Does it work ok for anybody else
with a similar setup ?

Thanks,
J.F.

> ----------
> From: 	Daniel Morissette[SMTP:morissette at dmsolutions.ca]
> Sent: 	Friday, August 24, 2001 10:17 AM
> To: 	Doyon, Jean-Francois
> Subject: 	Re: [mapserver-users] Perl/Mapscript - CVS Version
> 
> "Doyon, Jean-Francois" wrote:
> > 
> > I was using the CVS version and SWIG 1.3.6 and getting the exact same
> > prolblem, so I got the nightly build instead, same thing ...
> > 
> > Any ideas ?
> > 
> 
> JF,
> 
> I also ran into problems with MapScript and SWIG 1.3 a while ago and I
> was told to stick to SWIG 1.1...  I suggest that you try with SWIG 1.1
> 
> -- 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>  Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
>  DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>   Don't put for tomorrow what you can do today, because if 
>       you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.
> 


From Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca  Fri Aug 24 16:18:05 2001
From: Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca (Doyon, Jean-Francois)
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:18:05 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Building Mapscript/Python
Message-ID: <7CDD7B94357FD5119E800002A537C46E22FBC0@s5-ccr-r1.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca>

Hey there,

Well I'm progressing somewhat, I think I've managed to get the module built
and installed properly, now I'm trying to write external methods to make use
of it all :)

This is funny, but how do I initialize a mapObj in Python ? There's no "new"
method on any of the objects (classes in this case).  I found the __init__
function, but when I try to call it I get:

TypeError: unbound method __init__() must be called with instance as first
argument

This is with :

 mapObj.__init__("/home/mapdata/legalsurveys/test.map")

I also tried asinging to something with :

mymap =  mapObj.__init__("/home/mapdata/legalsurveys/test.map")

But same error.  I'm not sure what "instance" it wants as an argument. If I
try giving it another argument, I also get an error saying the name isn't
defined ...

I may have to pre-decalre an "empty" object first, but I haven't found out
how to do that yet :)

Seems to me we really should get a Mapscript/Python doc going :P


Jean-Fran?ois Doyon
Internet Service Development and Systems Support
GeoAccess Division
Canadian Center for Remote Sensing
Natural Resources Canada
http://atlas.gc.ca
Phone: (613) 992-4902
Fax: (613) 947-2410



From pbinkley at library.ualberta.ca  Mon Aug 27 08:29:00 2001
From: pbinkley at library.ualberta.ca (pbinkley at library.ualberta.ca)
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:29:00 -0600
Subject: [mapserver-users] newbie problems
Message-ID: <68108E84D940D51195620008C7E95BEA0A442A@mail.library.ualberta.ca>

A newbie suggestion for problem 1: I notice you're using the same extent
settings for the main map and the reference map, but a different aspect
ratio (600x600 for the main map, 200x146 for the reference map). Could that
be throwing it off? I'm grappling with some similar problems and am still
trying to get a grip on how all the variables work together. My reference
map bounding box zooms out when I zoom in on the main map...

Peter

Peter Binkley
Interface Development Coordinator, TAL Online
email: pbinkley at thealbertalibrary.ab.ca
phone: 492-5282, ext. 242 
fax: (780) 492-9243
post: Cameron Library 4-30
      University of Alberta
      Edmonton Alberta 
      T6G 2J8

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Drew [mailto:drish at bigpond.net.au]
> Sent: August 23, 2001 8:50 PM
> To: Mapserver listserver
> Subject: [mapserver-users] newbie problems
> 
> 
> Ok, I'm still dealing with 4 basic problems:
> 
> 1. the bounding box on the reference map is showing up in the 
> wrong place
> 2. I can't figure out how to get GPS coordinates displayed to 
> the user by
> clicking the map
> 3. I can't figure out how to plot sites on the map based on 
> GPS coordinates
> 4. The labels in my point layer show up as dots (when I have 
> the layer on),
> I was told there's a problem with DGN to SHP conversion
> 
> With problem 1, I tried using ogrinfo on my tileindex file to get the
> extents, and that was off, I also tried using an updated 
> tile4ms.c which got
> the extents of each tile, and figured out the overall 
> extents, but that one
> put the bounding box off the map. I tried changing the UNITS to every
> possible type, didn't work either.
> 
> In problem 2, I'm not really sure where to start. My data is 
> DGN converted
> to Shapefiles, and I'm not sure if they contain any GPS info, 
> and if they
> do, what type. I now have access to request custom data types from the
> supplier for the same area, would it be easier if the data 
> was in a certain
> format? If so, what would be ideal, and what exactly would I ask for?
> 
> I think problem 3 relies on fixing problem 2.
> 
> Problem 4 could be solved if I had an ideal data type, again, 
> what exactly
> would I ask for?
> 
> here's a URL of what I have so far
> http://melbwireless.dyndns.org/~drew/dev/itasca/test.html
> here's my .map file 
> http://melbwireless.dyndns.org/~drew/dev/itasca/demo.map
> 
> Can anyone help?
> 
> Thanks,
> Drew
> 


From jimburnett at ntelos.net  Mon Aug 27 08:41:32 2001
From: jimburnett at ntelos.net (Jim Burnett)
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:41:32 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Label Extent problem
Message-ID: <000a01c12f0e$bf482af0$2f01a8c0@morpheus>

I am having a problem, when displaying a label for a parcel in full extent, the label doesnt show up enless I zoom in. I have FORCED set to true, but it still wont show up when in full extent. If I show "ALL" the labels, it seems to show most of them all cluttered up, but I have to zoom to see a single label.


-jim

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From ludovic at siterra.com  Mon Aug 27 10:45:53 2001
From: ludovic at siterra.com (Ludovic Tenant)
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 10:45:53 -0700
Subject: [mapserver-users] getting shapefiles
Message-ID: <512CB547BE60CD47A75A5A969E10FE100173E7@mail.internal.siterra.com>

Hi list,

I've been developping an application with PHP/Mapscript and I'm very
satisfied with all the functionalities provided by Mapserver. In fact,
the only thing I miss now is good quality shapefile, because I'm not
fully satisfied with the ones I used to develop my application ( I
downloaded them on the web ). To be more precise, my application uses
maps at different levels, from the entire US to county level. For
example, I would like to have state level shapefiles showing the
principal roads and cities, and then, at a county level, I would like to
have shapefiles containing more detailed roads, streets and landmarks.
I've been able to find pretty good shapefiles at the county level, but I
miss shapefiles at the US and state level.
So, if anyone can point me to a place where I can buy or download this
kind of shapefiles, that would be a big step forward for me and enhance
a lot the look of my maps !

Thanks,

Ludovic.
  


From Tom.Kralidis at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca  Mon Aug 27 12:31:48 2001
From: Tom.Kralidis at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca (Kralidis, Tom)
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:31:48 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] on the fly projection modifications
Message-ID: <7CDD7B94357FD5119E800002A537C46E2261D3@s5-ccr-r1.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca>

Hi,

Anyone have any experience / suggestions on how to change projection params
on the fly within a MapServer web app?

i.e. An existing .map file:

MAP
 NAME CAN
 EXTENT -180 -90 180 90
 UNITS DD
 TRANSPARENT ON
 SIZE 500 300
 WEB
  TEMPLATE  map.htm
  IMAGEPATH /home/httpd/html/img_cache/
  IMAGEURL  "/img_cache/"
  LOG       process_log
 END
 LAYER
  NAME   world_at_night
  TYPE   RASTER
  STATUS DEFAULT
  DATA   ../firemapping/world_stable_lights.tif
 END
END

..then, in the web app, the user wishes to change projections to:

PROJECTION
  "proj=lcc"
  "lat_0=49n"
  "lon_0=95w"
  "lat_1=49n"
  "lat_2=77n"
END

...how can one set this up via GET or POST.  I'd like to have the page
refresh with coords in LCC, as per this example.

Thanks

..Tom

=================================
Tom Kralidis
Systems Scientist
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
Tel: (613) 947-1828
http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/
=================================


From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Mon Aug 27 12:57:04 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 14:57:04 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] on the fly projection modifications
Message-ID: <sb8a5fc3.010@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

It can be done. You need to use lat/lon coordinates to move between different
projections. No biggie in your case. You can change the output projection using
the "map_projection" parameter and you set it's value to a comma delimited
string of proj options. For example:

  "proj=lcc,lat_0=49n,lon_0=95w,lat_1=49n,lat_2=77n"

anything spit out at that point will be in that new coordinate system. One caveat might
be that you should set the new projection BEFORE passing the extent but I'm not
positive about that.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> "Kralidis, Tom" <Tom.Kralidis at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca> 08/27/01 02:31PM >>>
Hi,

Anyone have any experience / suggestions on how to change projection params
on the fly within a MapServer web app?

i.e. An existing .map file:

MAP
 NAME CAN
 EXTENT -180 -90 180 90
 UNITS DD
 TRANSPARENT ON
 SIZE 500 300
 WEB
  TEMPLATE  map.htm
  IMAGEPATH /home/httpd/html/img_cache/
  IMAGEURL  "/img_cache/"
  LOG       process_log
 END
 LAYER
  NAME   world_at_night
  TYPE   RASTER
  STATUS DEFAULT
  DATA   ../firemapping/world_stable_lights.tif
 END
END

..then, in the web app, the user wishes to change projections to:

PROJECTION
  "proj=lcc"
  "lat_0=49n"
  "lon_0=95w"
  "lat_1=49n"
  "lat_2=77n"
END

...how can one set this up via GET or POST.  I'd like to have the page
refresh with coords in LCC, as per this example.

Thanks

..Tom

=================================
Tom Kralidis
Systems Scientist
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
Tel: (613) 947-1828
http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ 
=================================



From Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca  Mon Aug 27 13:09:51 2001
From: Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca (Doyon, Jean-Francois)
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 16:09:51 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Compile problem PHP module
Message-ID: <7CDD7B94357FD5119E800002A537C46E22FBC7@s5-ccr-r1.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca>

Hello,

I'm trying to compile the very latest CVS mapserver on RedHat 7.1 with PHP
4.0.6 and get the following:

cc  cc -I. -I.. -fpic -O2  -Wall -DCOMPILE_DL=1 -DPHP4 -DUSE_WMS
-DUSE_PROJ -DUSE_EPPL -DUSE_TIFF  -DUSE_GD_GIF -DUSE_GD_PNG -DUSE_GD_JPEG
-DUSE_GD_WBMP -DUSE_GD_FT -DGD_HAS_GDIMAGEGIFPTR -DUSE_JPEG
-I/usr/src/mapserver        -I/usr/local/include
-I/usr/src/webserver/php-4.0.6/ -I/usr/src/webserver/php-4.0.6//dl
-I/usr/src/webserver/php-4.0.6//main -I/usr/src/webserver/php-4.0.6//Zend
-I/usr/src/webserver/php-4.0.6//include -I/usr/src/webserver/php-4.0.6//TSRM
-I/usr/local/apache/include -c -o php_mapscript_util.o php_mapscript_util.c
cc: cannot specify -o with -c or -S and multiple compilations
make: *** [php_mapscript_util.o] Error 1


My configure was this:

./configure  --with-proj --with-php=/usr/src/webserver/php-4.0.6/
--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs

The binary version compiled fine.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? This is kind of urgent :)

Thanks!


Jean-Fran?ois Doyon
Internet Service Development and Systems Support
GeoAccess Division
Canadian Center for Remote Sensing
Natural Resources Canada
http://atlas.gc.ca
Phone: (613) 992-4902
Fax: (613) 947-2410



From Meredith.Bliss at ODE-EX1.ODE.STATE.OR.US  Mon Aug 27 16:17:24 2001
From: Meredith.Bliss at ODE-EX1.ODE.STATE.OR.US (BLISS Meredith)
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 16:17:24 -0700
Subject: [mapserver-users] PreNewbie Can't Run Demo
Message-ID: <5BE43397F49ED411A59D0090272AB4DE01699285@odemail1.ode.state.or.us>

I seem to be totally stumped trying to get the demo to run on
Win2000/Apache. When I click on the "Initialize" button on the MapServer
Demo Interface, I get an error message from Windows saying "mapserv.exe has
generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the
program." The Apache error log says: "[Mon Aug 27 15:51:52 2001] [error]
[client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of script headers: c:/program files/apache
group/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe"

I installed MS 3.3.011G and did the requisite edits according to the demo
instructions. Any suggestions?

Meredith (Bud) Bliss, Research Analyst
Oregon Criminal Justice Commission 
Asset Forfeiture Oversight Advisory Committee
126 Public Service Building
255  Capitol Street NE, Salem OR 97301
503-378-2053 x25 -- fax: 503-378-8666
> http://www.ocjc.state.or.us
> 


From trem at socialchange.net.au  Mon Aug 27 17:30:53 2001
From: trem at socialchange.net.au (Trem Stamp)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:30:53 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Reprojection gives a msDrawRasterLayer( TIFF ) error
Message-ID: <3B8AE63D.75475800@socialchange.net.au>

Hi,

I'm currently testing an Alpha Release of mapserv 3.5. with GDAL library
support

MapServer version 3.5 (pre-alpha) OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG
OUTPUT=WBMP
SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=TTF SUPPORTS=WMS INPUT=TIFF INPUT=EPPL7
INPUT=JPEG INPUT=
GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE

I have one georeferenced tif image which is in AGD66/AMG Zone 55
(EPSG:20255) and a would like to output this as WGS84/Geographic
(EPSG:4326)

The capabilities document shows the layer okay (and seems to have
generated it's own LatLonBoundingBox values - I assume from the
reprojection?).  There are infact 2 layers.


http://maps-dev.socialchange.net.au/cgi-bin/wms?request=capabilities

    <Layer queryable="0">
      <Name>barellan</Name>
      <Title>barellan</Title>
      <SRS>EPSG:20255</SRS>
      <LatLonBoundingBox minx="146.559" miny="-34.2968" maxx="146.586"
maxy="-34.2796" />
      <BoundingBox SRS="EPSG:20255"
                  minx="459415" miny="6.20674e+06" maxx="461936"
maxy="6.20484e+06" />
    </Layer>

When I try to use a mapserv getMap request (or wms request - which by
the way I know works okay as I've tested it with a straight forward
Geographic to Geographic on a georeferenced tif file):

http://maps-dev.socialchange.net.au/cgi-bin/wms?VERSION=1.1.0&REQUEST=GetMap&LAYERS=landsat&WIDTH=300&HEIGHT=300&BBOX=144.41,-37.74,146.95,-35.72
 (works okay)

http://maps-dev.socialchange.net.au/cgi-bin/wms?VERSION=1.1.0&REQUEST=GetMap&LAYERS=barellan&WIDTH=300&HEIGHT=300&BBOX=146.559,-34.2968,146.586,-34.2796
 (get error)

I get the following error:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
<!DOCTYPE ServiceExceptionReport SYSTEM
"http://www.digitalearth.gov/wmt/xml/exception_1_1_0.dtd">
<ServiceExceptionReport version="1.1.0">
<ServiceException>
msDrawRasterLayer( TIFF ): General error message. Raster reprojection
supported only with the GDAL library.
</ServiceException>
</ServiceExceptionReport>

Can anyone tell me what the problem maybe?  The GDAL library being used
id v1.1.5

Thanks,

Trem


From wasserburger at plan.at  Tue Aug 28 04:14:17 2001
From: wasserburger at plan.at (Wolfgang W. Wasserburger)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 13:14:17 +0200
Subject: [mapserver-users] Simple QUERY problem (fwd)
In-Reply-To: <200108221535.KAA02800@mallit.fr.umn.edu>
Message-ID: <NEBBKGNIAKHJEJPMPOOBCENFDHAA.wasserburger@plan.at>

Teb,

the Header and Footer ahs to be transfered to the Web-Section of teh mapfile
and it will work.

Greetings from sunny Vienna, Austria

Wolfgang W. Wasserburger
WWW: http://www.plan.at/ - http://www.punktgenau.at/ -
http://www.plan.at/home/mitarbeiter/wwa/
  -----Original Message-----
  From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
[mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu]On Behalf Of teb
  Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 5:36 PM
  To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
  Cc: robbrown99 at hotmail.com
  Subject: [mapserver-users] Simple QUERY problem (fwd)


  Hello all,

  I am trying to get a simple query to work using v3.5 and the Mapplet. I
have used the QUERY command in the map file and have created a template,
header and footer. However, when I initialise the map from the form I get
the following message:
  loadLayer(): Unknown identifier. (QUERY):(451)


  I commented out the query commands in the map file and the map then
worked, but of course no query capability!

  Does anyone know where I might have gone wrong? Part of my map file looks
like this:


  LAYER
      NAME "PROW_Nodes"
      TYPE POINT
      DATA PROW_Link_point
      LABELITEM "REF_NO"
      STATUS OFF
      CLASS
        COLOR 255 51 0
        NAME "Public Right of Way Nodes (Queryable)"
        SYMBOL "signpost"
        LABEL
          SIZE SMALL
          COLOR 0 0 0
          BACKGROUNDCOLOR -1 -1 -1
          OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
          POSITION AUTO
          TYPE BITMAP
          BUFFER 2
        END
    ! ! ! ;  END
      HEADER "PROW_Node_header.html"
      FOOTER "PROW_Node_footer.html"
      QUERY
        TEMPLATE "PROW_Node_template.html"
      END
  END

  I would be grateful for any suggestions. Thanks for your time.

  Regards,

  Rob


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From warmerdam at pobox.com  Tue Aug 28 05:02:27 2001
From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:02:27 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Reprojection gives a msDrawRasterLayer( TIFF ) error
References: <3B8AE63D.75475800@socialchange.net.au>
Message-ID: <3B8B8853.1000106@pobox.com>

Trem Stamp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently testing an Alpha Release of mapserv 3.5. with GDAL library
> support
> 
> MapServer version 3.5 (pre-alpha) OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG
> OUTPUT=WBMP
> SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=TTF SUPPORTS=WMS INPUT=TIFF INPUT=EPPL7
> INPUT=JPEG INPUT=
> GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE

...
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
> <!DOCTYPE ServiceExceptionReport SYSTEM
> "http://www.digitalearth.gov/wmt/xml/exception_1_1_0.dtd">
> <ServiceExceptionReport version="1.1.0">
> <ServiceException>
> msDrawRasterLayer( TIFF ): General error message. Raster reprojection
> supported only with the GDAL library.
> </ServiceException>
> </ServiceExceptionReport>
> 
> Can anyone tell me what the problem maybe?  The GDAL library being used
> id v1.1.5
> 

Trem,

You will need to reconfigure without TIFF support, otherwise the "built-in"
TIFF support takes precidence over the GDAL TIFF support.

Best regards,
---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com
light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Programmer for Rent



From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Tue Aug 28 06:24:41 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:24:41 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Simple QUERY problem (fwd)
Message-ID: <sb8b555f.050@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

Actually, header and footer are valid at the layer level as well. All layer results are wrapped
by those files with ALL results wrapped by the header and footer in the web section. 3.5 
looses the QUERY object with it's contents moved to CLASSes. This was done to limit
the number of expressions that potentially needed evaluation and made code a bit 
simpler.

So, to fix, move your TEMPLATE line into the CLASS object and remove the QUERY object.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> "Wolfgang W. Wasserburger" <wasserburger at plan.at> 08/28/01 06:14AM >>>
Teb,

the Header and Footer ahs to be transfered to the Web-Section of teh mapfile
and it will work.

Greetings from sunny Vienna, Austria

Wolfgang W. Wasserburger
WWW: http://www.plan.at/ - http://www.punktgenau.at/ -
http://www.plan.at/home/mitarbeiter/wwa/ 
  -----Original Message-----
  From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu 
[mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu]On Behalf Of teb
  Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 5:36 PM
  To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu 
  Cc: robbrown99 at hotmail.com 
  Subject: [mapserver-users] Simple QUERY problem (fwd)


  Hello all,

  I am trying to get a simple query to work using v3.5 and the Mapplet. I
have used the QUERY command in the map file and have created a template,
header and footer. However, when I initialise the map from the form I get
the following message:
  loadLayer(): Unknown identifier. (QUERY):(451)


  I commented out the query commands in the map file and the map then
worked, but of course no query capability!

  Does anyone know where I might have gone wrong? Part of my map file looks
like this:


  LAYER
      NAME "PROW_Nodes"
      TYPE POINT
      DATA PROW_Link_point
      LABELITEM "REF_NO"
      STATUS OFF
      CLASS
        COLOR 255 51 0
        NAME "Public Right of Way Nodes (Queryable)"
        SYMBOL "signpost"
        LABEL
          SIZE SMALL
          COLOR 0 0 0
          BACKGROUNDCOLOR -1 -1 -1
          OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
          POSITION AUTO
          TYPE BITMAP
          BUFFER 2
        END
    ! ! ! ;  END
      HEADER "PROW_Node_header.html"
      FOOTER "PROW_Node_footer.html"
      QUERY
        TEMPLATE "PROW_Node_template.html"
      END
  END

  I would be grateful for any suggestions. Thanks for your time.

  Regards,

  Rob


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From Tom.Kralidis at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca  Tue Aug 28 07:33:55 2001
From: Tom.Kralidis at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca (Kralidis, Tom)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:33:55 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] on the fly projection modifications
Message-ID: <7CDD7B94357FD5119E800002A537C46E2261DA@s5-ccr-r1.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca>


Thanks for the info.

I tried this, but did not get the coords back as per the map_projection
param:

http://[host]/cgi-bin/mapserv_35?map_projection=proj%3Dlcc%2Clat_0%3D49n%2Cl
on_0%3D95w%2Clat_1%3D49n%2Clat_2%3D77n&map=%2Fhome%2Fhttpd%2Fhtml%2Fprototyp
es%2Fframed%2Fmap.map&imgbox=-1+-1+-1+-1&imgxy=249.5+149.5&mode=browse&zoom=
1&imgext=-141.178000+36.481974+-52.178000+89.873974

....I then changed the 'imgext' param to 'mapext', and received back LCC
coordinates, so this looked ok.

- Does one have to use mapext instead of imgext to make this work?  My
application sort of depends on imgext and zoom params to take care of
zooming factors.

Thanks

..Tom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Lime [mailto:steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us]
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 3:57 PM
> To: Tom.Kralidis at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] on the fly projection modifications
> 
> 
> It can be done. You need to use lat/lon coordinates to move 
> between different
> projections. No biggie in your case. You can change the 
> output projection using
> the "map_projection" parameter and you set it's value to a 
> comma delimited
> string of proj options. For example:
> 
>   "proj=lcc,lat_0=49n,lon_0=95w,lat_1=49n,lat_2=77n"
> 
> anything spit out at that point will be in that new 
> coordinate system. One caveat might
> be that you should set the new projection BEFORE passing the 
> extent but I'm not
> positive about that.
> 
> Steve
> 
> Stephen Lime
> Internet Applications Analyst
> 
> Minnesota DNR
> 500 Lafayette Road
> St. Paul, MN 55155
> 651-297-2937
> 
> >>> "Kralidis, Tom" <Tom.Kralidis at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca> 08/27/01 
> 02:31PM >>>
> Hi,
> 
> Anyone have any experience / suggestions on how to change 
> projection params
> on the fly within a MapServer web app?
> 
> i.e. An existing .map file:
> 
> MAP
>  NAME CAN
>  EXTENT -180 -90 180 90
>  UNITS DD
>  TRANSPARENT ON
>  SIZE 500 300
>  WEB
>   TEMPLATE  map.htm
>   IMAGEPATH /home/httpd/html/img_cache/
>   IMAGEURL  "/img_cache/"
>   LOG       process_log
>  END
>  LAYER
>   NAME   world_at_night
>   TYPE   RASTER
>   STATUS DEFAULT
>   DATA   ../firemapping/world_stable_lights.tif
>  END
> END
> 
> ..then, in the web app, the user wishes to change projections to:
> 
> PROJECTION
>   "proj=lcc"
>   "lat_0=49n"
>   "lon_0=95w"
>   "lat_1=49n"
>   "lat_2=77n"
> END
> 
> ...how can one set this up via GET or POST.  I'd like to have the page
> refresh with coords in LCC, as per this example.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> ..Tom
> 
> =================================
> Tom Kralidis
> Systems Scientist
> Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
> Tel: (613) 947-1828
> http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ 
> =================================
> 


From claude.philipona at camptocamp.com  Tue Aug 28 10:03:01 2001
From: claude.philipona at camptocamp.com (Claude Philipona)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 19:03:01 +0200
Subject: [mapserver-users] Gdal for esri .hdr labelled .bil raw raster
Message-ID: <006601c12fe3$4bd163e0$1500a8c0@bsa>


I'm trying to use Mapserver 3.5 with gdal:
MapScript Version (Aug 1, 2001)
MapServer version 3.5 (pre-alpha) OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP
SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=TTF SUPPORTS=WMS INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=JPEG INPUT=OGR
INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE

I know that gdal is working, because I'm able to resample .tif rasters on the fly
into new projections.

I would like to use some ESRI .hdr Labelled .bil raw raster file via gdal (to
read GTopo 30 data). According to gdal doc, this format is supported and to open
a dataset  the file with the image file (often with the extension .bil) has to be
selected.

I could have it worked. I get this error:
Fatal error: MapServer Error in msDrawRaster(): Unrecognized or unsupported image
format.

I have a file named "alps.bil" (raw raster) and "alps.hdr" in the data folder.

Here is part of the .map file

LAYER
  NAME "alps"
  DATA "alps.bil"
  TYPE RASTER

  STATUS ON

  PROJECTION
     "proj=latlong"
     "ellps=clrk66"
  END

END


Here is the .hdr file:

file_title               = alps
data_type                = raster
grid_cell_registration   = center
map_projection           = Lat/Lon
left_map_x               = 2.00000000000
right_map_x              = 18.00000000000
upper_map_y              = 52.00000000000
lower_map_y              = 43.00000000000
number_of_rows           = 1080
number_of_columns        = 1920
grid_size                = 0.00833333333
elev_m_unit              = meters
min__value               = -16
max__value               = 4570
elev_m_min               = -16
elev_m_max               = 4570
elev_m_missing_flag      = -500
number_of_display_colors = 256
data_value_unit          = elev_m
data_byte_order          = little_endian


Any idea how to have this work, and , more generally how to use gdal to open
format supported only by this extension?

Thanks

Claude Philipona



From warmerdam at pobox.com  Tue Aug 28 11:44:10 2001
From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 14:44:10 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Gdal for esri .hdr labelled .bil raw raster
References: <006601c12fe3$4bd163e0$1500a8c0@bsa>
Message-ID: <3B8BE67A.2000800@pobox.com>

Claude Philipona wrote:
> Here is the .hdr file:
> 
> file_title               = alps
> data_type                = raster
> grid_cell_registration   = center
> map_projection           = Lat/Lon
> left_map_x               = 2.00000000000
> right_map_x              = 18.00000000000
> upper_map_y              = 52.00000000000
> lower_map_y              = 43.00000000000
> number_of_rows           = 1080
> number_of_columns        = 1920
> grid_size                = 0.00833333333
> elev_m_unit              = meters
> min__value               = -16
> max__value               = 4570
> elev_m_min               = -16
> elev_m_max               = 4570
> elev_m_missing_flag      = -500
> number_of_display_colors = 256
> data_value_unit          = elev_m
> data_byte_order          = little_endian
> 
> 
> Any idea how to have this work, and , more generally how to use gdal to open
> format supported only by this extension?
> 

Claude,

This doesn't look like the GTOPO data I have seen before.  This is the
.hdr file I have with one of my GTOPO datasets:

BYTEORDER      M
LAYOUT       BIL
NROWS         6000
NCOLS         4800
NBANDS        1
NBITS         16
BANDROWBYTES         9600
TOTALROWBYTES        9600
BANDGAPBYTES         0
NODATA        -9999
ULXMAP        -99.99583333333334
ULYMAP        39.99583333333333
XDIM          0.00833333333333
YDIM          0.00833333333333

Quite different than yours!  You could use an editor to rewrite the .hdr file
in a form that is more ESRI like.  I imagine your hdr should look like:

BYTEORDER L
NROWS 1080
NCOLS 1920
NBANDS 1
NBITS 16
NODATA -500
ULXMAP 2
ULYMAP 52
XDIM 0.00833333333
YDIM 0.00833333333

Where did you get this GTOPO data?

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From claude.philipona at camptocamp.com  Tue Aug 28 13:27:35 2001
From: claude.philipona at camptocamp.com (Claude Philipona)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 22:27:35 +0200
Subject: [mapserver-users] Gdal for esri .hdr labelled .bil raw raster
In-Reply-To: <3B8BE67A.2000800@pobox.com>
Message-ID: <000601c12fff$df8f21f0$1500a8c0@bsa>

> Where did you get this GTOPO data?
I got the data from
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/seg/ff/nph-newform.pl/seg/topo/subset

It is a one.kilometer elevation model based not only on GTOPO, but also other
sources. In the .bil file, data are in int16 (meter).

Thanks this was the problem. I got a .hdr file, but with the wrong format option
(FreeForm ND instead of ESRI).

Now I'm able able show the elevetion map on a browser, but there is still a
problem: The map render in grey level, but all point that are above 255 m are
white. I tried to use the CLASSITEM "[pixel]" to assign color
CLASSITEM "[pixel]"
   CLASS
    EXPRESSION ([pixel] < 1)
      COLOR 0 0 0
    END
   CLASS
    EXPRESSION ([pixel] >= 1 AND [pixel] <50)
      COLOR 255 0 0
    END
    CLASS
    EXPRESSION ([pixel] >= 50 AND [pixel] < 100)
      COLOR 0 255 0
    END
 ..and so on
END
. but I still get most of the map in the color set for pixel value 255. It seems
that when gdal/mapserver convert the 16 bits data to 8 bits (In the .bil file,
data are in int16 (meter).), it just leave the value under 255 unchanged and put
all value above 255 to 255. So the map is pretty useless (most of the point
around alps region are above 255m). I read in the "Raster howto" that there was a
limitation on using CLASS pixel with gdal driver. But how is it possible to
handle the 16bit .bil to have good presentation.

Claude Philipona




From warmerdam at pobox.com  Tue Aug 28 14:36:17 2001
From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 17:36:17 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Gdal for esri .hdr labelled .bil raw raster
References: <000601c12fff$df8f21f0$1500a8c0@bsa>
Message-ID: <3B8C0ED1.7090503@pobox.com>

Claude Philipona wrote:
>> . but I still get most of the map in the color set for pixel value 255. It seems
> that when gdal/mapserver convert the 16 bits data to 8 bits (In the .bil file,
> data are in int16 (meter).), it just leave the value under 255 unchanged and put
> all value above 255 to 255. So the map is pretty useless (most of the point
> around alps region are above 255m). I read in the "Raster howto" that there was a
> limitation on using CLASS pixel with gdal driver. But how is it possible to
> handle the 16bit .bil to have good presentation.
> 

Claude,

Good questions.  The general theory is that users should be preprocesing
their files into web ready form (ie. performing down sampling in advance).

However, especially for something like classifying 16bit data I can see
that proper behaviour in MapServer would be desirable.  I will add it to
my TODO list to make classification work properly (through GDAL) for non-eight
bit data.  Note that to make this work properly for floating point data, I
will need to evaluate the classification expressions for ever pixel of real
data as opposed to the current approach of evaluating it for each of the
256 entries in the colortable, but no more.  This could be pretty expensive!

Furthermore, I think there should be a way of having MapServer do scaling
in cases where you don't want to setup a complex classification scheme.

Steve, is it OK for us to add extra override information via the METADATA
block, or is that intended to be just for WMS related stuff?   I would like
to have GDAL interogate a SCALE parameter which could have the arguments
MIN and MAX or the word AUTO indicating that a min/max pair should be
computed from the data.  This would be the default if not specified I
suppose.  Of course, the scaling wouldn't apply for classified rasters.

Best regards,
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From trem at socialchange.net.au  Tue Aug 28 19:15:04 2001
From: trem at socialchange.net.au (Trem Stamp)
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 12:15:04 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] mapserv 3.5 error when reprojecting
References: <006601c12fe3$4bd163e0$1500a8c0@bsa>
Message-ID: <3B8C5028.4674BC48@socialchange.net.au>

Hi,

I'm currently resampling .tif rasters on the fly into new projections
using mapserv 3.5 and gdal.
However I've been getting a mapserv error in my log files.

[Wed Aug 29 11:48:12 2001].543274 msResampleGDALToMap in effect:
cellsize = 3.96
4371
[Wed Aug 29 11:48:12 2001] [error] [client 10.10.1.116] Premature end of
script
headers: /www/hosted/maps-dev/cgi-bin/mapserv

There are two layer in the map file.  One works (isn't being
reprojected) and one doesn't (gives error above)

I'm using the epsg definitions for layer input and map output.

Has anyone seen this error when running mapserv for a reprojection.

The map file looks like:


NAME demo
STATUS on
EXTENT 140.0 -37.74 147.02 -32.0
SHAPEPATH "/www/hosted/maps-dev/htdocs/mapserv/data/test"
SYMBOLSET "/www/hosted/maps-dev/htdocs/mapserv/symbology/symbol.sym"
IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
PROJECTION
"init=epsg:4326"
END

WEB
   METADATA
    "wms_abstract" "This is a test map file generating capabilities
output for 3
 test cases including a shape file, tiff and tiled tiffs"
    "wms_onlineresource"
"http://maps-dev.socialchange.net.au/cgi-bin/wms?"
    "wms_srs" "EPSG:4326"
    END
END

LAYER
  NAME barellan
  TYPE raster
  STATUS on
  DATA barellan.tif
  METADATA
    "wms_title" "barellan"
    "wms_extent" "459414.71000000002 6204842.79 461936.04999999999
6206741.99000
00002"
  END
  PROJECTION
  "init=epsg:20255"
  END

END  # LAYER


LAYER
  NAME landsat
  TYPE raster
  STATUS on
  DATA rgb7826_geo.tif
  METADATA
    "wms_title" "landsat"
    "wms_extent" "144.41 -37.74 146.95 -35.72"
  END
  PROJECTION
  "init=epsg:4326"
  END

END  # LAYER


END  # MAPFILE


Cheers,
Trem


From bertha_bonita at yahoo.com  Tue Aug 28 19:17:48 2001
From: bertha_bonita at yahoo.com (=?iso-8859-1?q?bertha=20amalia=20serrato=20de=20la=20cruz?=)
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 04:17:48 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [mapserver-users] HILITE
Message-ID: <20010829021748.17393.qmail@web4203.mail.yahoo.com>

hi list

in my file map i defined this:

QUERYMAP
  SIZE 200 200
  STATUS ON
  STYLE HILITE
  COLOR 0 0 255 
END

and works fine, but when add  a icon gif in some 
layers as next

   CLASS
    NAME "Bomberos"
       SIZE 6
        SYMBOL bombero
        OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
        COLOR 255 0 0 
   END

and do query, this not appear whit the color blue
definided in QUERYMAP ..i think, because is a gif
image, but how can i get a "hilite" color blue in this
case?



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From warmerdam at pobox.com  Tue Aug 28 19:52:43 2001
From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam)
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 22:52:43 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] mapserv 3.5 error when reprojecting
References: <006601c12fe3$4bd163e0$1500a8c0@bsa> <3B8C5028.4674BC48@socialchange.net.au>
Message-ID: <3B8C58FB.6010702@pobox.com>

Trem Stamp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently resampling .tif rasters on the fly into new projections
> using mapserv 3.5 and gdal.
> However I've been getting a mapserv error in my log files.
> 
> [Wed Aug 29 11:48:12 2001].543274 msResampleGDALToMap in effect:
> cellsize = 3.96
> 4371
> [Wed Aug 29 11:48:12 2001] [error] [client 10.10.1.116] Premature end of
> script
> headers: /www/hosted/maps-dev/cgi-bin/mapserv

Trem,

The first message (msResampleGDALToMap()) is just a debug message.

The second message appears to indicate that mapserv crashed.  I would
suggest debugging this by running shp2img on the mapfile. If that
works fine, you will have to run mapserv in a non-debug environment.
Not always trivial!

Let me know how it goes.

Best regards,
---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
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light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Programmer for Rent



From psaravanakumar at uwc.ac.za  Wed Aug 29 00:30:39 2001
From: psaravanakumar at uwc.ac.za (Paramasivam Saravanakumar)
Date: 29 Aug 2001 09:30:39 +0200
Subject: [mapserver-users] How to create a simple map file
Message-ID: <sb8cb659.046@Services-02.uwc.ac.za>

Hi,
I am new to Mapserver. I want to integrate Image Web Server 1.6 and Mapserver. I have downloaded the Mapserver 3.4, installed and it is working well. Now I want to create a map file using my own data. I would like to use any scripts(like avenue, VB) to create the map file from the ArcView. 

I have downloaded the Ross' scripts but, some reasons it is not working properly, Any advice in this regard is really appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Regards



P.Saravanakumar
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Coastal Management and Spatial Analyst Specialist
International Ocean Institute of Southern Africa
Botany Department
University of the Western Cape
Bellville 7535
South Africa
Ph: +27 21 9593408
Email : kumar at uwc.ac.za






From mscharber at josh.ucsd.edu  Wed Aug 29 10:52:41 2001
From: mscharber at josh.ucsd.edu (Michael Scharber)
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:52:41 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] PostGIS function calls in query template?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108291045040.8109-100000@trinity.ucsd.edu>

Hi there,

How can I use a derived field in a Mapserver query template .html file?
I mean, can I wrap an attribute from a relation with a PostGIS geometry
field (used as a layer in Mapserver) with a function call?

ex. [x(shape)] to present the user with the x (Longitude in my case) of a
tuples' shape (geometry) attribute.

TIA

Michael Scharber



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From John.Arthur at voicestream.com  Wed Aug 29 13:10:36 2001
From: John.Arthur at voicestream.com (Arthur, John)
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:10:36 -0700
Subject: [mapserver-users] Itemquery in Mapscript(PHP)
Message-ID: <987E5CD7052ED51198F400508BA25279089EDA@vamerrifms01.gsm1900.org>

Sorry if this is documented somewhere, but I couldn't find anything on how
to perform an Itemquery in PHP mapscript(not cgi).
I would like to type a search on a field (in a point or polygon layer) and
return a map zoomed in on that search.

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From mgiesbrecht at geoarctic.com  Wed Aug 29 16:11:31 2001
From: mgiesbrecht at geoarctic.com (Mark Giesbrecht)
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 17:11:31 -0600
Subject: [mapserver-users] Potential for 100's of layers
Message-ID: <3B8D76A3.E5386653@geoarctic.com>

Hi all,

Incredible application, this MapServer.  I am presently trying to create
an online app that can potentially access hundreds of shapefiles.  I've
found out a bit about the MS_MAXLAYERS defined in map.h, where Stephen
Lime, at the time, thought it was a reasonable limit.  Without having
tested the limits of MapServers performance with a huge number of
layers, are there any users out there who have come across this yet?
How nuts would I have to be to define 500 shapefiles in the map file,
all loaded at once?

Any thoughts, suggestions?

Thanks,

Mark
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GIS Programmer/Analyst
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From Jonathon.Root at agso.gov.au  Wed Aug 29 16:48:57 2001
From: Jonathon.Root at agso.gov.au (Jonathon.Root at agso.gov.au)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:48:57 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Potential for 100's of layers
Message-ID: <28DE833A781BD511839600D0B772248F6AA35E@agsomail1.agso.gov.au>

The most we've done is 210 shapefiles with no problems, bit slow of course
(~400Mb of data) if you want to view all the layers at once but otherwise
fine.

regards,
Jonathon


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Giesbrecht [mailto:mgiesbrecht at geoarctic.com]
Sent: Thursday, 30 August 2001 9:12
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: [mapserver-users] Potential for 100's of layers


Hi all,

Incredible application, this MapServer.  I am presently trying to create
an online app that can potentially access hundreds of shapefiles.  I've
found out a bit about the MS_MAXLAYERS defined in map.h, where Stephen
Lime, at the time, thought it was a reasonable limit.  Without having
tested the limits of MapServers performance with a huge number of
layers, are there any users out there who have come across this yet?
How nuts would I have to be to define 500 shapefiles in the map file,
all loaded at once?

Any thoughts, suggestions?

Thanks,

Mark
--
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GIS Programmer/Analyst
GeoArctic International Services Ltd.
mgiesbrecht at geoarctic.com http://www.geoarctic.com




From zhox at yeah.net  Wed Aug 29 17:22:00 2001
From: zhox at yeah.net (Zhou Xu)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 8:22:0 +0800
Subject: [mapserver-users] thematic map on the fly using PHP/Mapscript?
Message-ID: <20010830003442.B25221C6DF261@smtp.yeah.net>

Hi,

I am new to mapserver.
I want to make a thematic map on the fly using php/mapscript, and the data is in an external database, can I do that using php/mapscript? and how?

Thank you very much.
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From lyndon.zimmermann at adelaide.edu.au  Wed Aug 29 18:11:52 2001
From: lyndon.zimmermann at adelaide.edu.au (Lyndon Zimmermann)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 10:41:52 +0930
Subject: [mapserver-users] XML Metadata management
References: <28DE833A781BD511839600D0B772248F6AA35E@agsomail1.agso.gov.au>
Message-ID: <3B8D92D8.3490F41C@adelaide.edu.au>

Greetings all,
One of the great joys of any GIS project is, of course, preparing and
delivering the metadata.  The national co-ordinators of the metadata
project here in Oz have decided on an XML format and provided tools for
generating data in this format.  

The concept is great, but I'm now trying to work out how to deliver this
metadata.  Can anyone give me quick rundown on how this works?  I think
it's a template read by your favourite browser that allows you to select
your metadata XML file, then delivers it in accordance with the
template.  Or is it driven by some server application?

Lyndon Z

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From rob at socialchange.net.au  Wed Aug 29 18:25:04 2001
From: rob at socialchange.net.au (Rob Atkinson)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 11:25:04 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] XML Metadata management
References: <28DE833A781BD511839600D0B772248F6AA35E@agsomail1.agso.gov.au> <3B8D92D8.3490F41C@adelaide.edu.au>
Message-ID: <3B8D95F0.E4C68A67@socialchange.net.au>


There are others in Oz who'll be able to give you more direct guidance on
the mechanics of the current setup, however there is a general interest in
this around the world, so I've let this go to entire list.

The OpenGIS Consortium (mapserv 3.5 will provide compliance with its
published Web Map Server Specification) is also where catalog
standardisation issues are being dealt with, and in particular will be
compliant with the upcoming ISO 19115 metadata schema - that Oz will adopt
accordding to current policy.

The linkages between services (eg you mapserv installation) and the
metadata, in particular to allow this data to be exploited to search for
services delivering particular data,  are being addressed in the next
OpenGIS Web Services Testbed, starting soon. If successful in our funding
bid we will be implementing a large scale trial across Australia that you
would have a natural opportunity to participate in and get that guidance!

Regards

Rob Atkinson

Lyndon Zimmermann wrote:

> Greetings all,
> One of the great joys of any GIS project is, of course, preparing and
> delivering the metadata.  The national co-ordinators of the metadata
> project here in Oz have decided on an XML format and provided tools for
> generating data in this format.
>
> The concept is great, but I'm now trying to work out how to deliver this
> metadata.  Can anyone give me quick rundown on how this works?  I think
> it's a template read by your favourite browser that allows you to select
> your metadata XML file, then delivers it in accordance with the
> template.  Or is it driven by some server application?
>
> Lyndon Z
>
> --
> Lyndon Zimmermann
> BE (Mech Adelaide) Grad Dip Bus Admin (UniSA)
>
> "Bioenergy Atlas for Australia" Co-ordinator
> University of Adelaide Agronomy and Farming Systems
> C/- GISCA, 4th floor, 10 Pulteney St, Adelaide 5005
> Dir (GISCA) +61-8-8303 3975 Switch (GISCA) 8303 3900 Mob 0414 91 4577
> Fax (GISCA) +61-8-8303 3498 email lyndon.zimmermann at adelaide.edu.au
> http://sg211.gisca.adelaide.edu.au/lzimmerm/zimm.htm
>
> Biomass Energy Atlas Website:
> http://sg211.gisca.adelaide.edu.au/bioenergy_atlas/html/atlas_index.html
>
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From ncowham at forumone.com  Wed Aug 29 20:13:13 2001
From: ncowham at forumone.com (Nyk Cowham)
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 23:13:13 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] XML Metadata management
Message-ID: <C15E3D46408199449E5118C733ED7FCD0B5032@pluto.forumone.com>

Lyndon:

There are a number of approaches you can take with the metadata, it all
really depends on what you want to do with it. If you just want to
publish the metadata on a website you should probably use an XSLT
stylesheet to transform the XML document into an HTML document. You can
get a XSLT processor free in a number of different implementations.
Many people favor SAXON (http://saxon.sourceforge.net/) which is
implemented in Java but I generally use my own Perl script called
'exalt' that implements the XML::LibXSLT module:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use XML::LibXSLT;
use XML::LibXML;

my $parser = new XML::LibXML;
my $xsl = new XML::LibXSLT;

if (@ARGV) {
    my $xml_src = $parser->parse_file(shift);
    my $style_src = $parser->parse_file(shift);
    my $stylesheet = $xsl->parse_stylesheet($style_src);
    my $result = $stylesheet->transform($xml_src);
    $stylesheet->output_file($result, shift);
} else {
    die("usage: exalt <xml source> <xslt stylesheet> <html output
file>");
}

If you want to be able to do these transforms dynamically rather than on
the command line you can use AxKit (Perl) or Cocoon (Java) to do
transforms dynamically everytime the xml document or stylesheets change.

It you need to do more complex data manipulation of the files then you
are probably will have to do some programming. I would recommend
subscribing to the Perl-XML mailing list (perl-xml at activestate.com)
since Perl is a very easy way of processing XML files - also check out
http://www.xmlperl.com/.

Nyk Cowham.

> Greetings all,
> One of the great joys of any GIS project is, of course, preparing and
> delivering the metadata.  The national co-ordinators of the metadata
> project here in Oz have decided on an XML format and provided 
> tools for
> generating data in this format.  
>
> The concept is great, but I'm now trying to work out how to 
> deliver this
> metadata.  Can anyone give me quick rundown on how this 
> works?  I think
> it's a template read by your favourite browser that allows 
> you to select
> your metadata XML file, then delivers it in accordance with the
> template.  Or is it driven by some server application?
> 
> Lyndon Z
> 
> -- 
> Lyndon Zimmermann
> BE (Mech Adelaide) Grad Dip Bus Admin (UniSA)
> 
> "Bioenergy Atlas for Australia" Co-ordinator
> University of Adelaide Agronomy and Farming Systems
> C/- GISCA, 4th floor, 10 Pulteney St, Adelaide 5005
> Dir (GISCA) +61-8-8303 3975 Switch (GISCA) 8303 3900 Mob 0414 91 4577
> Fax (GISCA) +61-8-8303 3498 email lyndon.zimmermann at adelaide.edu.au
> http://sg211.gisca.adelaide.edu.au/lzimmerm/zimm.htm
> 
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> http://sg211.gisca.adelaide.edu.au/bioenergy_atlas/html/atlas_
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From JohnHockaday at auslig.gov.au  Wed Aug 29 20:14:59 2001
From: JohnHockaday at auslig.gov.au (Hockaday, John)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:14:59 +1000
Subject: [mapserver-users] XML Metadata management
Message-ID: <53273E187450D311ACF6009027927B12022C0EC9@smtpgate.auslig.gov.au>

Hi Lyndon,

You can use XSL to convert your XML files on the fly into any format that
you want to display.  You will need an XSL file that maps the XML elements
into the format that you want to display and you will need an XSLT parser
that will read that XSL and the XML file and do the processing.

This is the method used to convert GML into SVG so that XML files can be
viewed using an SVG browser plugin.

John Hockaday

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Lyndon Zimmermann [SMTP:lyndon.zimmermann at adelaide.edu.au]
> Sent:	Thursday, August 30, 2001 11:12 AM
> Cc:	mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject:	[mapserver-users] XML Metadata management
> 
> Greetings all,
> One of the great joys of any GIS project is, of course, preparing and
> delivering the metadata.  The national co-ordinators of the metadata
> project here in Oz have decided on an XML format and provided tools for
> generating data in this format.  
> 
> The concept is great, but I'm now trying to work out how to deliver this
> metadata.  Can anyone give me quick rundown on how this works?  I think
> it's a template read by your favourite browser that allows you to select
> your metadata XML file, then delivers it in accordance with the
> template.  Or is it driven by some server application?
> 
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From mapserver at hotmail.com  Thu Aug 30 02:35:01 2001
From: mapserver at hotmail.com (WMS Mapping)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:35:01 +0000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Help connect data base for Mysql and Php/Mapscript
Message-ID: <F153syrYrZuvbUCwBp900001639@hotmail.com>

Hello

I am student of the School of Geography of the University of The Andes in 
Venezuela and at the moment I am developing a Server Map through internet, 
using mapserver compiled in Linux like I modulate php/mapscrip + mapserver 
3.4 + gmap and I need help to connect with a database in MySql and to obtain 
a report of the consultation. You achieved it and he/she wanted of being 
possible to obtain the necessary help.

Of being possible an example of as Connecting php/mapscrip to important 
serious MySql,


Very grateful for help.

Thank you


Diego J. Padr?n


_________________________________________________________________
Descargue GRATUITAMENTE MSN Explorer en http://explorer.msn.es/intl.asp



From adsllaurentf at canl.nc  Thu Aug 30 04:48:27 2001
From: adsllaurentf at canl.nc (Laurent FOULONNEAU)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 22:48:27 +1100
Subject: [mapserver-users] Itemquery in Mapscript(PHP)
References: <987E5CD7052ED51198F400508BA25279089EDA@vamerrifms01.gsm1900.org>
Message-ID: <000a01c13149$af251060$0548abca@kids>

Could certainly be improved.....
First you have a blank image, when you use the search form, your object is
'automagically' ;) zoomed and painted in red

The others object are not showed.

Laurent

//--------------------------------------begin draw_query.php
<HTML>
<?php

dl("php_mapscript.dll");   // PHP4

// variables globales
$map_obj= ms_newMapObj("yourmapfile.map");
$red = $map_obj->addColor(255, 0, 0);

// fonctions
function DrawQueryMap()
{
GLOBAL $map_obj,$mode,$item, $qlayer, $value,$red;
if($qlayer && $mode == "itemquery" && $value && $item)
{
$layer = $map_obj->getlayerbyname($qlayer);
for ($c=0; $c < $layer->numclasses; $c++)
 {
 $class=$layer->getclass($c);
 if ($class->name == $item)
  {
   $class->setExpression($value);
   $class->set("color", $red);
  }
 }
}





$img = $map_obj->draw();
$url = $img->saveWebImage($img, 0, 0, -1);
echo"<INPUT  TYPE=image SRC=$url  BORDER=0 WIDTH=$map_obj->width
HEIGHT=$map_obj->height NAME=mainmap>";
}



?>

<HEAD>
 <?php DrawQueryMap() ?>

</HEAD>
<FORM>
        <input type="hidden" name="mode" value="itemquery">
        <input type="hidden" name="item"
value="your_class_name_in_the_map_file">
        <input type="hidden" name="qlayer"
value="your_layer_in_the_map_file">
        <input type="TEXT" size="30" name="value" value="">
        <input type="submit" value="Search">
</FORM>

</HTML>
//------------------------------------- end of draw_query.php

//-----------------------------yourmapfile.map : add a  layer with a class
name and a classitem with the same name
LAYER
  NAME your_layer_in_the_map_file
  TYPE POLYGON
  STATUS ON
  DATA your_shape_file
  CLASSITEM "your_class_name_in_the_map_file"
  CLASS
   NAME "your_class_name_in_the_map_file"
     END
END # layer
//----------------end of layer definition



----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur, John" <John.Arthur at voicestream.com>
To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 7:10 AM
Subject: [mapserver-users] Itemquery in Mapscript(PHP)


> Sorry if this is documented somewhere, but I couldn't find anything on how
> to perform an Itemquery in PHP mapscript(not cgi).
> I would like to type a search on a field (in a point or polygon layer) and
> return a map zoomed in on that search.
>
> John Arthur
> RF Technician
> Office:   (757) 490-7221
> Cellular: (757) 692-1515
> Email: john.arthur at voicestream.com
> _~-^-~_
> VoiceStream
> W I R E L E S S
>



From Chip.Hankley at GASAI.Com  Thu Aug 30 05:50:33 2001
From: Chip.Hankley at GASAI.Com (Hankley, Chip)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 07:50:33 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Itemquery in Mapscript(PHP)
Message-ID: <3DFF131E4E6D2D4198CDD758F35A53536E3E57@postoffice.GASAI.Com>

John,

Dig through the mail archives... check on getextent / setextent. There is a
thread w/ this name (follow link)...

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wilma_hiliter/mapserver-users/0107/thre
ads.html#00335

that should give you some insight.

Chip


-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur, John [mailto:John.Arthur at voicestream.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 3:11 PM
To: 'mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu'
Subject: [mapserver-users] Itemquery in Mapscript(PHP)


Sorry if this is documented somewhere, but I couldn't find anything on how
to perform an Itemquery in PHP mapscript(not cgi).
I would like to type a search on a field (in a point or polygon layer) and
return a map zoomed in on that search.

John Arthur
RF Technician
Office:   (757) 490-7221
Cellular: (757) 692-1515
Email: john.arthur at voicestream.com
_~-^-~_
VoiceStream
W I R E L E S S 


From John.Arthur at voicestream.com  Thu Aug 30 06:44:29 2001
From: John.Arthur at voicestream.com (Arthur, John)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 06:44:29 -0700
Subject: [mapserver-users] Itemquery in Mapscript(PHP)
Message-ID: <987E5CD7052ED51198F400508BA25279089EDB@vamerrifms01.gsm1900.org>

Laurent,

Thanks for your help.  I must be doing something wrong, it didn't seem to
work for me. I'm using 3.5
When I run the search the first time, the map is returned, but nothing is
highlighted or zoomed.
When I run the search the second time, an error is returned:
	Warning: MapServer Error in msLoadMap(): ():(0) in c:\program
files\apache group\apache\mapinfo\htdocs\drawquery.php on line 7

My layer is as follows:

LAYER
  NAME countysearch
  TYPE POLYGON
  STATUS ON
  CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
  CONNECTION "c:/mapinfo work files/VA/Counties/VA_CNTY.tab"
  CLASSITEM "County"
  CLASS
   NAME "County"
     END
END # layer

My form is as follows:

<FORM>
        <input type="hidden" name="mode" value="itemquery">
        <input type="hidden" name="item" value="County">
        <input type="hidden" name="qlayer" value="countysearch">
        <input type="TEXT" size="30" name="value" value="">
        <input type="submit" value="Search">
</FORM>

Does this not work with OGR?

Thanks 
John Arthur


-----Original Message-----
From: Laurent FOULONNEAU [mailto:adsllaurentf at canl.nc]
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 7:48 AM
To: Arthur, John; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Itemquery in Mapscript(PHP)


Could certainly be improved.....
First you have a blank image, when you use the search form, your object is
'automagically' ;) zoomed and painted in red

The others object are not showed.

Laurent

//--------------------------------------begin draw_query.php
<HTML>
<?php

dl("php_mapscript.dll");   // PHP4

// variables globales
$map_obj= ms_newMapObj("yourmapfile.map");
$red = $map_obj->addColor(255, 0, 0);

// fonctions
function DrawQueryMap()
{
GLOBAL $map_obj,$mode,$item, $qlayer, $value,$red;
if($qlayer && $mode == "itemquery" && $value && $item)
{
$layer = $map_obj->getlayerbyname($qlayer);
for ($c=0; $c < $layer->numclasses; $c++)
 {
 $class=$layer->getclass($c);
 if ($class->name == $item)
  {
   $class->setExpression($value);
   $class->set("color", $red);
  }
 }
}





$img = $map_obj->draw();
$url = $img->saveWebImage($img, 0, 0, -1);
echo"<INPUT  TYPE=image SRC=$url  BORDER=0 WIDTH=$map_obj->width
HEIGHT=$map_obj->height NAME=mainmap>";
}



?>

<HEAD>
 <?php DrawQueryMap() ?>

</HEAD>
<FORM>
        <input type="hidden" name="mode" value="itemquery">
        <input type="hidden" name="item"
value="your_class_name_in_the_map_file">
        <input type="hidden" name="qlayer"
value="your_layer_in_the_map_file">
        <input type="TEXT" size="30" name="value" value="">
        <input type="submit" value="Search">
</FORM>

</HTML>
//------------------------------------- end of draw_query.php

//-----------------------------yourmapfile.map : add a  layer with a class
name and a classitem with the same name
LAYER
  NAME your_layer_in_the_map_file
  TYPE POLYGON
  STATUS ON
  DATA your_shape_file
  CLASSITEM "your_class_name_in_the_map_file"
  CLASS
   NAME "your_class_name_in_the_map_file"
     END
END # layer
//----------------end of layer definition



----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur, John" <John.Arthur at voicestream.com>
To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 7:10 AM
Subject: [mapserver-users] Itemquery in Mapscript(PHP)


> Sorry if this is documented somewhere, but I couldn't find anything on how
> to perform an Itemquery in PHP mapscript(not cgi).
> I would like to type a search on a field (in a point or polygon layer) and
> return a map zoomed in on that search.
>
> John Arthur
> RF Technician
> Office:   (757) 490-7221
> Cellular: (757) 692-1515
> Email: john.arthur at voicestream.com
> _~-^-~_
> VoiceStream
> W I R E L E S S
>


From mgiesbrecht at geoarctic.com  Thu Aug 30 12:08:00 2001
From: mgiesbrecht at geoarctic.com (Mark Giesbrecht)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:08:00 -0600
Subject: [mapserver-users] Problem with layer name?
Message-ID: <3B8E8F10.AA65B803@geoarctic.com>

Hi all,

I've got the following layer definition that will not load:

LAYER
 NAME "03D_GreensBayouPlant-WhiteOakSub_tl_structure_NE"
 TYPE POINT
 STATUS ON
 TOLERANCE 10
 DATA "03D_GreensBayouPlant-WhiteOakSub_tl_structure_NE"
 LABELITEM 'STRUCTUREI'
 CLASS
  name "03D_GreensBayouPlant-WhiteOakSub_tl_structure_NE"
  COLOR 255 255 13
  SIZE 10
  SYMBOL 'triangle'
 END #CLASS
 HEADER = "queries/poles_header.htm"
 QUERY
  TEMPLATE "queries/poles.htm"
 END #QUERY
END #LAYER

I read that any non-alphanumeric characters have to be encased in single
or double quotes; am I missing something above?

Thanks,

Mark

--
Mark Giesbrecht, M.Sc.
GIS Programmer/Analyst
GeoArctic International Services Ltd.
mgiesbrecht at geoarctic.com http://www.geoarctic.com
phone: (403) 290-1320  fax:  (403) 264-5848





From pramsey at refractions.net  Thu Aug 30 12:22:26 2001
From: pramsey at refractions.net (Paul Ramsey)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 12:22:26 -0700
Subject: [mapserver-users] PostGIS function calls in query template?
References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108291045040.8109-100000@trinity.ucsd.edu>
Message-ID: <3B8E9272.CD54A87F@refractions.net>

Hi Michael,
The short answer, is 'no' you cannot do this. When mapserver is pulling
attributes from the database, it is checking the system tables to find
the attribute names, then pulling just those values. It might be
possible to make some changes to the postgis access code to allow users
to specify additional attributes as 'x(geometry) as xcoord' additions to
the SQL statement. 
A more expedient workaround is to use PHP/Mapscript as your programming
base, get the geometry ID's from a given query and then use the direct
PHP->pgsql connection to do whatever additional queries you want to do.
Probably less hacky in the long run.
Paul

Michael Scharber wrote:
> 
> How can I use a derived field in a Mapserver query template .html file?
> I mean, can I wrap an attribute from a relation with a PostGIS geometry
> field (used as a layer in Mapserver) with a function call?
> 
> ex. [x(shape)] to present the user with the x (Longitude in my case) of a
> tuples' shape (geometry) attribute.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Michael Scharber
> 
> --
> *******************************************************
>         Michael Scharber
>         Scripps Institution of Oceanography
>         Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
>         8785 Biological Grade
>         IGPP Room 4212
>         La Jolla, CA 92037
> 
>         mscharber at josh.ucsd.edu
>         (858)534-1750
> *******************************************************


From dblasby at refractions.net  Thu Aug 30 14:24:49 2001
From: dblasby at refractions.net (Dave Blasby)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 14:24:49 -0700
Subject: [Fwd: [mapserver-users] PostGIS function calls in query template?]
Message-ID: <3B8EAF21.FF14F5D0@refractions.net>

 
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From mscharber at josh.ucsd.edu  Thu Aug 30 14:25:42 2001
From: mscharber at josh.ucsd.edu (Michael Scharber)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 14:25:42 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] PostGIS function calls in query template?
In-Reply-To: <3B8E9272.CD54A87F@refractions.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108301415520.13587-100000@trinity.ucsd.edu>

Hi Paul (Dave too),

Thanks (to both of you) for your input.  It makes sense to me now that the
.html template is something that gets filled in after the query executes,
meaning Mapserver/PostGIS wouldn't have any knowledge of those derived
fields before hand.  Just for kicks I tried to get around it the easy way
(similar to Dave's initial suggestion to tack on the extra fields I need
directly into the table definition) by creating a view with the derived
fields I want (e.g x(shape) as "longitude", y(shape) as "latitude",
z(shape) as "height").  I made the corresponding change to my .map file
for Mapserver and the browsing, zoom in, zoom out etc, works just
fine...however any queries now bomb.  I get "msSearchDiskTree(): Unable to
access file.".

Any suggestions/explanations as to why this is failing?  The only thing I
changed in all of my Mapserver config is:

DATA "shape from monument_catalog"
to
DATA "shape from ss_monument_catalog"  (the view)

Thanks again,

Michael



On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Paul Ramsey wrote:

> Hi Michael,
> The short answer, is 'no' you cannot do this. When mapserver is pulling
> attributes from the database, it is checking the system tables to find
> the attribute names, then pulling just those values. It might be
> possible to make some changes to the postgis access code to allow users
> to specify additional attributes as 'x(geometry) as xcoord' additions to
> the SQL statement.
> A more expedient workaround is to use PHP/Mapscript as your programming
> base, get the geometry ID's from a given query and then use the direct
> PHP->pgsql connection to do whatever additional queries you want to do.
> Probably less hacky in the long run.
> Paul
>
> Michael Scharber wrote:
> >
> > How can I use a derived field in a Mapserver query template .html file?
> > I mean, can I wrap an attribute from a relation with a PostGIS geometry
> > field (used as a layer in Mapserver) with a function call?
> >
> > ex. [x(shape)] to present the user with the x (Longitude in my case) of a
> > tuples' shape (geometry) attribute.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Michael Scharber
> >
> > --
> > *******************************************************
> >         Michael Scharber
> >         Scripps Institution of Oceanography
> >         Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
> >         8785 Biological Grade
> >         IGPP Room 4212
> >         La Jolla, CA 92037
> >
> >         mscharber at josh.ucsd.edu
> >         (858)534-1750
> > *******************************************************
>

-- 
*******************************************************
      	Michael Scharber
	Scripps Institution of Oceanography
	Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
	8785 Biological Grade
	IGPP Room 4212
	La Jolla, CA 92037

	mscharber at josh.ucsd.edu
	(858)534-1750
*******************************************************



From TCHaddad at cshore.com  Thu Aug 30 16:25:23 2001
From: TCHaddad at cshore.com (TCHaddad)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 19:25:23 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] mapserver & windoze NT 4 vs. 2000 question
Message-ID: <200108301925.AA3344105528@cshore.com>


So....

we may be getting a new box in our office that our mapserver app.s will be moving to. I'm fishing for possible migration issues that might be significant enough to sway what we actually buy:

Right now we have a Mapserver app. running on an NT 4.0 SP 6 workstation (not server), with Apache 1.3.20 as a service. Everything works great. 

In spec-ing out what our choices are for something new, we're being given the choice of a box with NT 4.0 again (server version this time) or with Windows 2000 (server version), for the same price. I guess both come with IIS 5.0, so Apache would no longer be mandatory.

My questions are: do I care which of these 2 Operating systems we choose? Are there any significant issues as far as Mapserver or Mapplet are concerned? What about if we get into more XML/ the WMS stuff in 3.5? I've never had a complaint with Apache... are there Mapserver issues with IIS?

Apologies in advance if these are dumb/moot questions, I just know nothing about Win 2k server and saw from the archive that a few people may have had issues. As long as I hear that none are major obstacles, I'm confident we can work out any minor kinks.

Thanks to all,

Tanya


From zhox at yeah.net  Thu Aug 30 17:19:18 2001
From: zhox at yeah.net (Zhou Xu)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 8:19:18 +0800
Subject: [mapserver-users] Problem with layer name?
Message-ID: <20010831003006.48A561CA86C91@smtp2.yeah.net>

I think this is the problem:

"Short name for this layer. Limit is 20 characters. This name is the link between the mapfile and web interfaces that refer to this name. They must be identical. The name should be unique, unless one layer replaces another at different scales."

These words come from http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc/mapfile-reference.html#layer,which describes the Name property of Layer. 

On 2001-8-30 13:08:00, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I've got the following layer definition that will not load:
>
>LAYER
> NAME "03D_GreensBayouPlant-WhiteOakSub_tl_structure_NE"
> TYPE POINT
> STATUS ON
> TOLERANCE 10
> DATA "03D_GreensBayouPlant-WhiteOakSub_tl_structure_NE"
> LABELITEM 'STRUCTUREI'
> CLASS
>  name "03D_GreensBayouPlant-WhiteOakSub_tl_structure_NE"
>  COLOR 255 255 13
>  SIZE 10
>  SYMBOL 'triangle'
> END #CLASS
> HEADER = "queries/poles_header.htm"
> QUERY
>  TEMPLATE "queries/poles.htm"
> END #QUERY
>END #LAYER
>
>I read that any non-alphanumeric characters have to be encased in single
>or double quotes; am I missing something above?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mark
>
>--
>Mark Giesbrecht, M.Sc.
>GIS Programmer/Analyst
>GeoArctic International Services Ltd.
>mgiesbrecht at geoarctic.com http://www.geoarctic.com
>phone: (403) 290-1320  fax:  (403) 264-5848



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From pnaciona at gis.umn.edu  Thu Aug 30 18:00:37 2001
From: pnaciona at gis.umn.edu (Pericles S. Nacionales)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:00:37 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] mapserver & windoze NT 4 vs. 2000 question
In-Reply-To: <200108301925.AA3344105528@cshore.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.21.0108301939030.2188495-100000@center.gis.umn.edu>

Tanya,

Regardless of whether you use IIS or Apache, you should get Windows
2000.  I've never had any problems running MapServer on Win 2000, using
both IIS and Apache.  My reason for recommending Win2000 is
simple:  you'll still get updates from Microsoft for it.  WinNT may not
get further support once Windows XP shows up.

As for problems with Win2000 and MapServer, I haven't encountered any
yet.  Most of the win32 questions brought before the mapserver users
community pertain to misconfiguration--either during compilation (with the
makefile) or with the map file.  The win32 binary packages you download
from the MapServer web site are being compiled in Windows 2000 and work
just fine on the other Windows OSes.

Now for IIS and Apache...  since you can install both on your machine
without paying extra, I suggest running MapServer on one and then the
other.  Make some comparisons and let the community know how it went.  I'm
always curious about the benchmarks.  My guess is unless you really use it
for some custom applications (e.g., integration with ASP) you really won't
find much of a difference.  You can prove me wrong. :)

Good luck!
Perry Nacionales


On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, TCHaddad wrote:

> 
> So....
> 
> we may be getting a new box in our office that our mapserver app.s will be moving to. I'm fishing for possible migration issues that might be significant enough to sway what we actually buy:
> 
> Right now we have a Mapserver app. running on an NT 4.0 SP 6 workstation (not server), with Apache 1.3.20 as a service. Everything works great. 
> 
> In spec-ing out what our choices are for something new, we're being given the choice of a box with NT 4.0 again (server version this time) or with Windows 2000 (server version), for the same price. I guess both come with IIS 5.0, so Apache would no longer be mandatory.
> 
> My questions are: do I care which of these 2 Operating systems we choose? Are there any significant issues as far as Mapserver or Mapplet are concerned? What about if we get into more XML/ the WMS stuff in 3.5? I've never had a complaint with Apache... are there Mapserver issues with IIS?
> 
> Apologies in advance if these are dumb/moot questions, I just know nothing about Win 2k server and saw from the archive that a few people may have had issues. As long as I hear that none are major obstacles, I'm confident we can work out any minor kinks.
> 
> Thanks to all,
> 
> Tanya
> 



From ed at topozone.com  Thu Aug 30 18:30:19 2001
From: ed at topozone.com (Ed McNierney)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 21:30:19 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] mapserver & windoze NT 4 vs. 2000 question
Message-ID: <13858AA1A74F30419F319ACB66A9D12201918C@mercator.topozone.com>

Tanya -

The short answer is - it doesn't matter.

I have been using MapServer on Windows 2000 (Server and Professional)
for a year now.  There have been absolutely ZERO issues related to
Windows 2000.  As Perry noted, many users have
startup/setup/configuration issues on various operating systems, and
some of those users were running on Windows 2000.  However, the issues
weren't related to the operating system in my recollection.

The only exception I can think of is the matter of how IIS implements
anonymous user security for Web clients; it's nothing complicated, but
you need to understand how it works in order for MapServer to access the
files it needs.

>From a performance perspective, some enormous majority of your total
runtime will happen INSIDE the MapServer CGI program; whether Apache or
IIS processes your HTTP requests and passes them on to the CGI program
faster or slower won't add up to a hill of beans.  I cannot imagine
there being a noticeable performance difference between the two unless
you're creating very complex Web pages that contain very simple maps!

You should probably start by moving to Apache on Windows 2000, simply
because there's no good reason to change that variable - if it ain't
broke, leave it alone.  You can switch to IIS when you want to - if you
want to - when and if there's a good reason to do that.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com

-----Original Message-----
From: TCHaddad [mailto:TCHaddad at cshore.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 7:25 PM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: [mapserver-users] mapserver & windoze NT 4 vs. 2000 question



So....

we may be getting a new box in our office that our mapserver app.s will
be moving to. I'm fishing for possible migration issues that might be
significant enough to sway what we actually buy:

Right now we have a Mapserver app. running on an NT 4.0 SP 6 workstation
(not server), with Apache 1.3.20 as a service. Everything works great. 

In spec-ing out what our choices are for something new, we're being
given the choice of a box with NT 4.0 again (server version this time)
or with Windows 2000 (server version), for the same price. I guess both
come with IIS 5.0, so Apache would no longer be mandatory.

My questions are: do I care which of these 2 Operating systems we
choose? Are there any significant issues as far as Mapserver or Mapplet
are concerned? What about if we get into more XML/ the WMS stuff in 3.5?
I've never had a complaint with Apache... are there Mapserver issues
with IIS?

Apologies in advance if these are dumb/moot questions, I just know
nothing about Win 2k server and saw from the archive that a few people
may have had issues. As long as I hear that none are major obstacles,
I'm confident we can work out any minor kinks.

Thanks to all,

Tanya


From pkishor at GeoAnalytics.com  Thu Aug 30 18:36:30 2001
From: pkishor at GeoAnalytics.com (Puneet Kishor)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:36:30 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] mapserver & windoze NT 4 vs. 2000 question
In-Reply-To: <200108301925.AA3344105528@cshore.com>
Message-ID: <200108310138.UAA02813@lists.gis.umn.edu>

Just a quick response (based on very limited Mapserver specific 
experience) -- there is no inherent advantage in a server as opposed to 
a workstation (other than paying M$ more dollars). Apache works 
flawlessly on workstation, while IIS requires the use of server. In my 
opinion (empirical evidence), the workstation is faster because it is 
installed with barebones services -- nothing not essential to web 
serving is on it.

I would recommend Win2k over WinNT... seems more stable... save money on 
os license by getting a workstation instead of the server, use the saved 
money to give it gobs of ram, and/or get a dual cpu machine if you can...

pk/

On Thursday, August 30, 2001, at 06:25  PM, TCHaddad wrote:

>
> So....
>
> we may be getting a new box in our office that our mapserver app.s will 
> be moving to. I'm fishing for possible migration issues that might be 
> significant enough to sway what we actually buy:
>
> Right now we have a Mapserver app. running on an NT 4.0 SP 6 
> workstation (not server), with Apache 1.3.20 as a service. Everything 
> works great.
>
> In spec-ing out what our choices are for something new, we're being 
> given the choice of a box with NT 4.0 again (server version this time) 
> or with Windows 2000 (server version), for the same price. I guess both 
> come with IIS 5.0, so Apache would no longer be mandatory.
>
> My questions are: do I care which of these 2 Operating systems we 
> choose? Are there any significant issues as far as Mapserver or Mapplet 
> are concerned? What about if we get into more XML/ the WMS stuff in 
> 3.5? I've never had a complaint with Apache... are there Mapserver 
> issues with IIS?
>
> Apologies in advance if these are dumb/moot questions, I just know 
> nothing about Win 2k server and saw from the archive that a few people 
> may have had issues. As long as I hear that none are major obstacles, 
> I'm confident we can work out any minor kinks.
>
> Thanks to all,
>
> Tanya

--
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pkishor at eidesis.org


From sylvain.pasche at epfl.ch  Thu Aug 30 23:59:24 2001
From: sylvain.pasche at epfl.ch (Sylvain Pasche)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 08:59:24 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [mapserver-users] msQueryByPoint(): No matching record(s)
Message-ID: <15247.13772.546588.303347@gargle.gargle.HOWL>

Hello, 

I'm using php-mapscript with mapserver version 3.5.
I'm having problems with the new function queryByPoint. In fact, it
worked quite well when I tested it with version 3.4, but it does not
work anymaore with the 3.5: it always fails and returns No matching record(s) found. 

In My mapfile, there is:

LAYER
  NAME courses
  TYPE POINT
  STATUS ON
  DATA courses
  LabelItem "NOM"
  LabelMaxscale 99999
  LabelMinscale 10000
    
  CLASS
     SYMBOL 14
     MAXSIZE 15
     OUTLINECOLOR 255 0 0
     COLOR 255 0 0
      LABEL
       TYPE bitmap
        COLOR 255 0 0
        BACKGROUNDCOLOR 255 220 220
       POSITION AUTO
     END
  END   
  HEADER "ID NOM ALTITUDE COORD_X COORD_Y"
  TOLERANCE 12
  CLASSITEM "ID"
  CLASS  
    EXPRESSION /./
    TEMPLATE "ttt"
  END
END 

and the actual code for the query:

	$ClickPixX =  intval($c_vars['CLICK_x']);
	$ClickPixY = intval($c_vars['CLICK_y']);
  	
	$ClickGeoX = GMapPix2Geo($ClickPixX, 0, $WidthPix, 
				  $MinX, $MaxX, 0);
	$ClickGeoY = GMapPix2Geo($ClickPixY, 0, $HeightPix, 
				      $MinY, $MaxY, 1);
	$oClickGeo = ms_newPointObj();
	$oClickGeo->setXY($ClickGeoX, $ClickGeoY);
	$gpoQueryResults = $Map->queryByPoint($oClickGeo, MS_MULTIPLE, -1); 



Thanks for any help.

	   Sylvain



From thfischer at mapmedia.de  Fri Aug 31 05:48:50 2001
From: thfischer at mapmedia.de (Thorsten Fischer)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 14:48:50 +0200
Subject: [mapserver-users] Building Mapscript/Python
In-Reply-To: <7CDD7B94357FD5119E800002A537C46E22FBC0@s5-ccr-r1.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca>
References: <7CDD7B94357FD5119E800002A537C46E22FBC0@s5-ccr-r1.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca>
Message-ID: <01083114551500.02994@grobi>


Jean-Francois,

This posting is about a week old, I apologise if it was answered before but I
do not follow the list very closely at the moment.

> This is funny, but how do I initialize a mapObj in Python ? There's no "new"
> method on any of the objects (classes in this case).  I found the __init__
> function, but when I try to call it I get: 
> TypeError: unbound method __init__() must be called with instance as first
> argument

I have not built python/mapscript yet, but I know a bit of python. In Python,
to create an instance of an object you do something like:

map = mapObj ("/home/mapdata/legalsurveys/test.map")

The method __init__ is the constructor of a class, which is always defined as
something like 

def __init__ (self, ...)

So if you do the call described above, it passes its own instance and then the
arguments to the constructor. You do not call any new() function or the
__init__ thing directly.

> I may have to pre-decalre an "empty" object first, but I haven't found out
> how to do that yet :)

No. Never. This is python =)

> Seems to me we really should get a Mapscript/Python doc going :P

For the compiling process maybe, the above is general python knowledge.


hope that helps,

thorsten

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From SDunning at nephrology.org  Fri Aug 31 06:50:01 2001
From: SDunning at nephrology.org (Stephan Dunning)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 08:50:01 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Custom Legend
Message-ID: <DF28BB4099A7D311BB3500508B63B7751A1649@mail.nephrology.org>

Hi,
I 'm developing an interface based on the Gmap demo.  
I would like to set a link, via the legend window, to a legend customization
page where the user can set his own thematic scale colors, # of thematic
breaks, and the actual thematic range/expression.  My problem is that
although I've set the link with the legend image in the DrawLegend function
(when I roll over the legend window the link displays in the message bar
below, and my alt message appears), when I click the legend window, the main
page simply reloads the current map, not the new page.  If I send the link
to a new window, the correct page loads, but none of the variables I need
get sent through.  

Any input would be helpful.
Thanks,
Stephan


From SDunning at nephrology.org  Fri Aug 31 06:55:33 2001
From: SDunning at nephrology.org (Stephan Dunning)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 08:55:33 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Custom Legend
Message-ID: <DF28BB4099A7D311BB3500508B63B7751A164A@mail.nephrology.org>

I got it.  I just had to redirect the "action" for the form.


From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Fri Aug 31 07:11:02 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 09:11:02 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] Problem with layer name?
Message-ID: <sb8f54b2.056@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

That's more of a recommended limit. There is no hard limit in place for layer name length. The
problem is more likely the '=' after HEADER.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> Zhou Xu <zhox at yeah.net> 08/30/01 07:19PM >>>
I think this is the problem:

"Short name for this layer. Limit is 20 characters. This name is the link between the mapfile and web interfaces that refer to this name. They must be identical. The name should be unique, unless one layer replaces another at different scales."

These words come from http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc/mapfile-reference.html#layer,which describes the Name property of Layer. 

On 2001-8-30 13:08:00, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I've got the following layer definition that will not load:
>
>LAYER
> NAME "03D_GreensBayouPlant-WhiteOakSub_tl_structure_NE"
> TYPE POINT
> STATUS ON
> TOLERANCE 10
> DATA "03D_GreensBayouPlant-WhiteOakSub_tl_structure_NE"
> LABELITEM 'STRUCTUREI'
> CLASS
>  name "03D_GreensBayouPlant-WhiteOakSub_tl_structure_NE"
>  COLOR 255 255 13
>  SIZE 10
>  SYMBOL 'triangle'
> END #CLASS
> HEADER = "queries/poles_header.htm"
> QUERY
>  TEMPLATE "queries/poles.htm"
> END #QUERY
>END #LAYER
>
>I read that any non-alphanumeric characters have to be encased in single
>or double quotes; am I missing something above?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mark
>
>--
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>GIS Programmer/Analyst
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From bruno_gendron at yahoo.com  Fri Aug 31 07:13:07 2001
From: bruno_gendron at yahoo.com (=?iso-8859-1?q?Bruno=20Gendron?=)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:13:07 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [mapserver-users] php-mapscript loading error
Message-ID: <20010831141307.20905.qmail@web4603.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi,

Just to confirm my feeling about this, I just finished
compiling the latest nightly source of
Mapserver-PHP-Mapscript with no apparent problem (the
mapserv binary is working fine). Curiously, when I
load the php-mapscript extension with dl() and test it
with phpinfo for example, no problem, but as soon as I
begin using mapscript inside my PHP script, boom!, I
receive the following error:

Warning: Unable to load dynamic library
'/usr/lib/php/extensions/php_mapscript.so' -
/usr/lib/php/extensions/php_mapscript.so: undefined
symbol: gdImageJpeg in
/var/www/html/mapserver/mapscript.php4 on line 14

My guess is that PHP and Mapscript are not using the
same GD library: is this the case?

Thanks


=====
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Consultant en TI et en geomatique / IT and GIS Consultant
Lachine, QC Canada, Tel: 514-634-7024

"Quand on connait l'equilibre, on ne se passionne pour rien,
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From steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us  Fri Aug 31 07:15:38 2001
From: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us (Stephen Lime)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 09:15:38 -0500
Subject: [mapserver-users] msQueryByPoint(): No matching record(s)
Message-ID: <sb8f55d7.077@co5.dnr.state.mn.us>

How recent is your version? There have been changes made over that last
3 weeks that fix bugs releated to queries. My testing has things working 
very well now.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst

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

>>> Sylvain Pasche <sylvain.pasche at epfl.ch> 08/31/01 01:59AM >>>
Hello, 

I'm using php-mapscript with mapserver version 3.5.
I'm having problems with the new function queryByPoint. In fact, it
worked quite well when I tested it with version 3.4, but it does not
work anymaore with the 3.5: it always fails and returns No matching record(s) found. 

In My mapfile, there is:

LAYER
  NAME courses
  TYPE POINT
  STATUS ON
  DATA courses
  LabelItem "NOM"
  LabelMaxscale 99999
  LabelMinscale 10000
    
  CLASS
     SYMBOL 14
     MAXSIZE 15
     OUTLINECOLOR 255 0 0
     COLOR 255 0 0
      LABEL
       TYPE bitmap
        COLOR 255 0 0
        BACKGROUNDCOLOR 255 220 220
       POSITION AUTO
     END
  END   
  HEADER "ID NOM ALTITUDE COORD_X COORD_Y"
  TOLERANCE 12
  CLASSITEM "ID"
  CLASS  
    EXPRESSION /./
    TEMPLATE "ttt"
  END
END 

and the actual code for the query:

	$ClickPixX =  intval($c_vars['CLICK_x']);
	$ClickPixY = intval($c_vars['CLICK_y']);
  	
	$ClickGeoX = GMapPix2Geo($ClickPixX, 0, $WidthPix, 
				  $MinX, $MaxX, 0);
	$ClickGeoY = GMapPix2Geo($ClickPixY, 0, $HeightPix, 
				      $MinY, $MaxY, 1);
	$oClickGeo = ms_newPointObj();
	$oClickGeo->setXY($ClickGeoX, $ClickGeoY);
	$gpoQueryResults = $Map->queryByPoint($oClickGeo, MS_MULTIPLE, -1); 



Thanks for any help.

	   Sylvain




From benenet at free.fr  Fri Aug 31 08:05:36 2001
From: benenet at free.fr (Benoit =?ISO-8859-1?Q?V=E9ler?=)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:05:36 +0200
Subject: [mapserver-users] gmap
Message-ID: <3B8FA7C0.2060709@free.fr>

Hello,

	I still have pbs to install Gmap :

	* I'm on w95,
	* I've installed php 4.0.5/mapserver 3.5, and php_mapscript_35.dll
	* It seems to work fine, as i can see the file phpinfo_mapscript.phtml 
properly (in the case when I comment the line

	dl("php_mapscript_35.dll");)

	* When I try to read the file gmap75.phtml, I have the error message 
(even when I comment every line which begin with dl():

Parse error: parse error in c:\program 
files\easyphp\www\gmap\gmap75.phtml on line 29

	Can anyone help ?...

	Cheers, Benoit.



From bruno_gendron at yahoo.com  Fri Aug 31 08:30:07 2001
From: bruno_gendron at yahoo.com (=?iso-8859-1?q?Bruno=20Gendron?=)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:30:07 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [mapserver-users] gmap
In-Reply-To: <3B8FA7C0.2060709@free.fr>
Message-ID: <20010831153007.17777.qmail@web4601.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi Benoit,

This looks to me like a generic PHP parse error, not a
specific Mapscript problem. You should first verify
that the syntax of your PHP script on line 29 is
correct...

Hope this helps...

--
Bruno Gendron


 --- Benoit V?ler <benenet at free.fr> a ?crit?: > Hello,
> 
> 	I still have pbs to install Gmap :
> 
> 	* I'm on w95,
> 	* I've installed php 4.0.5/mapserver 3.5, and
> php_mapscript_35.dll
> 	* It seems to work fine, as i can see the file
> phpinfo_mapscript.phtml 
> properly (in the case when I comment the line
> 
> 	dl("php_mapscript_35.dll");)
> 
> 	* When I try to read the file gmap75.phtml, I have
> the error message 
> (even when I comment every line which begin with
> dl():
> 
> Parse error: parse error in c:\program 
> files\easyphp\www\gmap\gmap75.phtml on line 29
> 
> 	Can anyone help ?...
> 
> 	Cheers, Benoit.
>  

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From sjohnston at satshot.com  Fri Aug 31 03:35:49 2001
From: sjohnston at satshot.com (Shawn L Johnston)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 10:35:49 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] mapserver & windoze NT 4 vs. 2000 question
In-Reply-To: <200108301925.AA3344105528@cshore.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0108311004270.28123-100000@planb.satshot.com>



On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, TCHaddad wrote:

>
> So....
>
> we may be getting a new box in our office that our mapserver app.s will be moving to. I'm fishing for possible migration issues that might be significant enough to sway what we actually buy:
>
> Right now we have a Mapserver app. running on an NT 4.0 SP 6 workstation (not server), with Apache 1.3.20 as a service. Everything works great.
>
> In spec-ing out what our choices are for something new, we're being given the choice of a box with NT 4.0 again (server version this time) or with Windows 2000 (server version), for the same price. I guess both come with IIS 5.0, so Apache would no longer be mandatory.
>
> My questions are: do I care which of these 2 Operating systems we choose? Are there any significant issues as far as Mapserver or Mapplet are concerned? What about if we get into more XML/ the WMS stuff in 3.5? I've never had a complaint with Apache... are there Mapserver issues with IIS?
>
> Apologies in advance if these are dumb/moot questions, I just know nothing about Win 2k server and saw from the archive that a few people may have had issues. As long as I hear that none are major obstacles, I'm confident we can work out any minor kinks.
>
> Thanks to all,
>
> Tanya
>

Tanya,

I would suggest that your first consideration would be how roboust your
new box is going to be. If it has a fast processor, and a fair amount of
RAM you might wish to go with Win2k. If its a little on the slow side you
may wish to go with NT 4.0.

To give you a rough idea, I loaded Win2k Server on a Celeron 466 with 128
MB's of RAM and it ran very slow. On a PIII with 512 MB's of RAM it runs
like a dream... Your milage may vary ;)

After hardware I'd look at what types of other applications you may be
running on this machine. If your going to run MS SQL you might want to
look at NT 4.0 as there were a few reports of having some performance
marks over Win2k.

Of course, I'd be happy to send you a copy of Caldera OpenLinux ;)

Good luck,

Shawn




From wasserburger at plan.at  Fri Aug 31 09:44:10 2001
From: wasserburger at plan.at (Wolfgang W. Wasserburger)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 18:44:10 +0200
Subject: [mapserver-users] SHPTREE error on NT 4.0
In-Reply-To: <06ea01c12c47$ab908580$0300000a@dhr>
Message-ID: <NEBBKGNIAKHJEJPMPOOBCEBCDIAA.wasserburger@plan.at>

Hi all thereout,

I tried to use SHPTREE and SHPNDX to index my Shapefiles. It seems to wrok,
but in the end of processing it raises a Dr. Watson Error-Message, which
means that it needs interaction, while I tried to index many files within a
batch process.

Has anyone a suggestion how to avoid it?

BTW: how to build in a connection to a standard SQL-Server to map points?

Greetings from Vienna, Austria


Wolfgang W. Wasserburger



From Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca  Fri Aug 31 10:29:44 2001
From: Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca (Doyon, Jean-Francois)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:29:44 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] METADATA use in templates
Message-ID: <7CDD7B94357FD5119E800002A537C46E22FBD6@s5-ccr-r1.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca>

Stephen,

Have you added support in the templates for the METADATA tags and ways to
use them? Last I remember, you mentionnned you hadn't gotten to that yet ...

Thank you,

Jean-Fran?ois Doyon
Internet Service Development and Systems Support
GeoAccess Division
Canadian Center for Remote Sensing
Natural Resources Canada
http://atlas.gc.ca
Phone: (613) 992-4902
Fax: (613) 947-2410



From v at w.cl  Fri Aug 31 11:37:53 2001
From: v at w.cl (Vinko Vrsalovic B.)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 14:37:53 -0400 (CLT)
Subject: [mapserver-users] Compilation problemas
In-Reply-To: <987E5CD7052ED51198F400508BA25279089EDA@vamerrifms01.gsm1900.org> from "Arthur, John" at ago 29, 2001 01:10:36 
Message-ID: <20010831183753.2FE9B22998@mail.selperchile.cl>


Just downloaded last CVS checkout and I'm getting this error:

[v at www mapserver]# make
gcc -O2  -Wall -DIGNORE_MISSING_DATA  -DUSE_EPPL -DUSE_PROJ -DUSE_PROJ_API_H -DUSE_WMS -DUSE_TIFF -DUSE_JPEG -DUSE_GD_PNG -DUSE_GD_JPEG -DUSE_GD_WBMP -DUSE_GD_FT                 shp2img.o  -L. -lmap -lgd  -lpng -lz -ljpeg -lfreetype -ltiff -lproj -ljpeg       -lm   -o shp2img
./libmap.a(maputil.o): In function `msDrawLayer':
maputil.o(.text+0x3065): undefined reference to `msDrawWMSLayer'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [shp2img] Error 1
[v at www mapserver]# exit

(All the previous versions compiled without problem).

Thanks for your help :)
--  
V. <v at w.cl>


From morissette at dmsolutions.ca  Fri Aug 31 11:53:05 2001
From: morissette at dmsolutions.ca (Daniel Morissette)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 14:53:05 -0400
Subject: [mapserver-users] Compilation problemas
References: <20010831183753.2FE9B22998@mail.selperchile.cl>
Message-ID: <3B8FDD11.CB1CA1D1@dmsolutions.ca>

Hi,

mapwmslayer.c was added to the Makefile.in recently.  Try re-running
configure so that your Makefile gets updated. 

Daniel



"Vinko Vrsalovic B." wrote:
> 
> Just downloaded last CVS checkout and I'm getting this error:
> 
> [v at www mapserver]# make
> gcc -O2  -Wall -DIGNORE_MISSING_DATA  -DUSE_EPPL -DUSE_PROJ -DUSE_PROJ_API_H -DUSE_WMS -DUSE_TIFF -DUSE_JPEG -DUSE_GD_PNG -DUSE_GD_JPEG -DUSE_GD_WBMP -DUSE_GD_FT                 shp2img.o  -L. -lmap -lgd  -lpng -lz -ljpeg -lfreetype -ltiff -lproj -ljpeg       -lm   -o shp2img
> ./libmap.a(maputil.o): In function `msDrawLayer':
> maputil.o(.text+0x3065): undefined reference to `msDrawWMSLayer'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [shp2img] Error 1
> [v at www mapserver]# exit
> 
> (All the previous versions compiled without problem).
> 
> Thanks for your help :)
> --
> V. <v at w.cl>

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From bruno_gendron at yahoo.com  Fri Aug 31 12:09:56 2001
From: bruno_gendron at yahoo.com (=?iso-8859-1?q?Bruno=20Gendron?=)
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 21:09:56 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [mapserver-users] php-mapscript is ok but new proj4 problem
In-Reply-To: <20010831141307.20905.qmail@web4603.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <20010831190956.523.qmail@web4601.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi again,

Sorry, I have found the problem... so simple: the gd
lib against which Mapserver was built had not been
configured with JPEG support (libjpeg). Sorry again
for this.

BUT....

Is there a limit in the size of the data (number of
objects) that can be reprojected with PROJ4?

I have a very simple test mapfile with 2 layers, one
is a polyline shapefile containing a gridline made of
5200 straight lines for a size of 500 k, the other is
a polygon shapefile with around 250 polygons with a
size of 6.5 megabytes. These files are in degrees, and
i'm using an Eckert2 projection...

When completely zoomed-out, I get an error (no map
displayed at all); when I zoom-in past a certain zoom
level, everything's fine. If I set the gridline layer
off, no problem at any zoom level... Looks to me like
a limit in the number of objects PROJ4 is able to
handle at once...

Sure, I could set the scale threshold of this gridline
layer to eliminate the problem, but...

Any advice??

--
Bruno Gendron

 --- Bruno Gendron <bruno_gendron at yahoo.com> a ?crit?:
> Hi,
> 
> Just to confirm my feeling about this, I just
> finished
> compiling the latest nightly source of
> Mapserver-PHP-Mapscript with no apparent problem
> (the
> mapserv binary is working fine). Curiously, when I
> load the php-mapscript extension with dl() and test
> it
> with phpinfo for example, no problem, but as soon as
> I
> begin using mapscript inside my PHP script, boom!, I
> receive the following error:
> 
> Warning: Unable to load dynamic library
> '/usr/lib/php/extensions/php_mapscript.so' -
> /usr/lib/php/extensions/php_mapscript.so: undefined
> symbol: gdImageJpeg in
> /var/www/html/mapserver/mapscript.php4 on line 14
> 
> My guess is that PHP and Mapscript are not using the
> same GD library: is this the case?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> =====
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> 
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From atod at gd.itb.ac.id  Fri Aug 31 13:36:33 2001
From: atod at gd.itb.ac.id (setoadi, R)
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 03:36:33 +0700
Subject: [mapserver-users] mapserver symbol error
Message-ID: <NFBBLGPNMLAFELLHGHFEMEDNCBAA.atod@gd.itb.ac.id>



I am new in mapserver. I am not successfully installing the ms_demo for
mapserver 3.4
The error message is
"getSymbol(): Symbol definition error. (STYLED):(6) "
I think, the error caused my symbol.sym.

I wish you could help me to solve the problem.

Best regards

Setoadi




From mapserver at hotmail.com  Fri Aug 31 17:49:45 2001
From: mapserver at hotmail.com (WMS Mapping)
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 00:49:45 +0000
Subject: [mapserver-users] Help connect data base for MySql and PHP/MapScript
Message-ID: <F1742i03LojJoPUprhu00002577@hotmail.com>

Hello

I am student of the School of Geography of the University of The Andes in 
Venezuela and at the moment I am developing a Server Map through internet, 
using mapserver compiled in Linux like I modulate php/mapscrip + mapserver 
3.4 + gmap and I need help to connect with a database in MySql and to obtain 
a report of the consultation. You achieved it and he/she wanted of being 
possible to obtain the necessary help.

Of being possible an send example of as Connecting php/mapscrip to important 
serious MySql,


Very grateful for help.

Thank you


Diego J. Padr?n


_________________________________________________________________
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From adsllaurentf at canl.nc  Fri Aug 31 22:00:40 2001
From: adsllaurentf at canl.nc (Laurent FOULONNEAU)
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 16:00:40 +1100
Subject: [mapserver-users] Itemquery in Mapscript(PHP)
References: <987E5CD7052ED51198F400508BA25279089EDB@vamerrifms01.gsm1900.org>
Message-ID: <001701c132a3$0ccb6980$0648abca@kids>

John,

Is this the only layer in your mapfile ? if yes it must show nothing at the
first time.

Have you tried a regex expression like /./  does it show somethig ? It show
all in my case...

I ve tested and it  work fine for me with OGR but in this case I have to
protect non regex $value with " "
eg :
$class->setExpression($value); -->  $class->setExpression("\"$value\"");
or directly in the search text box .

What is strange is that it did not zoom to the object ??? why ?

Your error look like more a problem with your mapinfo tables. Are you sure
that  your VA_CNTY.dat (for the data) exist and is not corrupted. I check my
mapinfo files with mapinfo proviewer before using them in mapserver.

My BDF.* mapinfo files comme from mapinfo 4.5 with a column named ID
My layer in map file  for OGR and mapinfo file is :
LAYER
  NAME BDF
  TYPE POLYGON
  STATUS ON
  CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
  CONNECTION "D:\Program Files\Apache
Group\Apache\htdocs\dev\montdore\BDF.tab"
  CLASSITEM "ID"
  CLASS
   NAME "ID"
  END
END # layer

Bon courage
Laurent FOULONNEAU


----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur, John" <John.Arthur at voicestream.com>
To: "'Laurent FOULONNEAU'" <adsllaurentf at canl.nc>;
<mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 12:44 AM
Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Itemquery in Mapscript(PHP)


> Laurent,
>
> Thanks for your help.  I must be doing something wrong, it didn't seem to
> work for me. I'm using 3.5
> When I run the search the first time, the map is returned, but nothing is
> highlighted or zoomed.
> When I run the search the second time, an error is returned:
> Warning: MapServer Error in msLoadMap(): ():(0) in c:\program
> files\apache group\apache\mapinfo\htdocs\drawquery.php on line 7
>
> My layer is as follows:
>
> LAYER
>   NAME countysearch
>   TYPE POLYGON
>   STATUS ON
>   CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
>   CONNECTION "c:/mapinfo work files/VA/Counties/VA_CNTY.tab"
>   CLASSITEM "County"
>   CLASS
>    NAME "County"
>      END
> END # layer
>
> My form is as follows:
>
> <FORM>
>         <input type="hidden" name="mode" value="itemquery">
>         <input type="hidden" name="item" value="County">
>         <input type="hidden" name="qlayer" value="countysearch">
>         <input type="TEXT" size="30" name="value" value="">
>         <input type="submit" value="Search">
> </FORM>
>
> Does this not work with OGR?
>
> Thanks
> John Arthur
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laurent FOULONNEAU [mailto:adsllaurentf at canl.nc]
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 7:48 AM
> To: Arthur, John; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Itemquery in Mapscript(PHP)
>
>
> Could certainly be improved.....
> First you have a blank image, when you use the search form, your object is
> 'automagically' ;) zoomed and painted in red
>
> The others object are not showed.
>
> Laurent
>
> //--------------------------------------begin draw_query.php
> <HTML>
> <?php
>
> dl("php_mapscript.dll");   // PHP4
>
> // variables globales
> $map_obj= ms_newMapObj("yourmapfile.map");
> $red = $map_obj->addColor(255, 0, 0);
>
> // fonctions
> function DrawQueryMap()
> {
> GLOBAL $map_obj,$mode,$item, $qlayer, $value,$red;
> if($qlayer && $mode == "itemquery" && $value && $item)
> {
> $layer = $map_obj->getlayerbyname($qlayer);
> for ($c=0; $c < $layer->numclasses; $c++)
>  {
>  $class=$layer->getclass($c);
>  if ($class->name == $item)
>   {
>    $class->setExpression($value);
>    $class->set("color", $red);
>   }
>  }
> }
>
>
>
>
>
> $img = $map_obj->draw();
> $url = $img->saveWebImage($img, 0, 0, -1);
> echo"<INPUT  TYPE=image SRC=$url  BORDER=0 WIDTH=$map_obj->width
> HEIGHT=$map_obj->height NAME=mainmap>";
> }
>
>
>
> ?>
>
> <HEAD>
>  <?php DrawQueryMap() ?>
>
> </HEAD>
> <FORM>
>         <input type="hidden" name="mode" value="itemquery">
>         <input type="hidden" name="item"
> value="your_class_name_in_the_map_file">
>         <input type="hidden" name="qlayer"
> value="your_layer_in_the_map_file">
>         <input type="TEXT" size="30" name="value" value="">
>         <input type="submit" value="Search">
> </FORM>
>
> </HTML>
> //------------------------------------- end of draw_query.php
>
> //-----------------------------yourmapfile.map : add a  layer with a class
> name and a classitem with the same name
> LAYER
>   NAME your_layer_in_the_map_file
>   TYPE POLYGON
>   STATUS ON
>   DATA your_shape_file
>   CLASSITEM "your_class_name_in_the_map_file"
>   CLASS
>    NAME "your_class_name_in_the_map_file"
>      END
> END # layer
> //----------------end of layer definition
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arthur, John" <John.Arthur at voicestream.com>
> To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 7:10 AM
> Subject: [mapserver-users] Itemquery in Mapscript(PHP)
>
>
> > Sorry if this is documented somewhere, but I couldn't find anything on
how
> > to perform an Itemquery in PHP mapscript(not cgi).
> > I would like to type a search on a field (in a point or polygon layer)
and
> > return a map zoomed in on that search.
> >
> > John Arthur
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