[mapserver-users] Shapefiles

[Richard Ford]

>
> 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.