[mapserver-users] MapServer 3.5 OGR/MapInfo Demos

[Daniel Morissette]

Hi,

For those interested in the new MapServer OGR link that was added to
MapServer 3.5, and especially the MapInfo users out there, we've setup 3
demos using some of the data contributed by MapServer users (we got more
but had to stop :) that demonstrate various features of the new OGR link
in MapServer:
 - Native support for MapInfo TAB files
 - Rendering of layers using colors and styles coming from the 
   source file instead of by defining classes (the STYLEITEM AUTO param)
 - Use of "seamless TAB layers", the MapInfo equivalent of MapServer's
   tiled shapefiles.
 - Use of "PROJECTION AUTO" to read the projection defn directly from
   the source file instead of defining the PROJ4 parameters (for file
   formats that do carry a projection, that excludes shapefile)

The demos are at:
  http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/msapps/nfld_demo/demo_init.html
  http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/msapps/yk_demo/demo_init.html
  http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/msapps/ro_demo/demo_init.html
(See the notes at the bottom of each page for a description of which
features they use)

More details on the OGR link can be found in the OGR HOWTO at:
  http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc/ogr-howto.html

Finally, there's a MapServer 3.5 (pre-alpha) Windoze executable and PHP
DLL that support this on our site at:
  http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/mapserver/dl/php4.0.5_php_mapscript_35.zip
If you're on Unix and want to build from the CVS source, then make sure
that you get the very latest GDAL/OGR source from CVS as well since
there were a few fixes in OGR in the last couple of days that are
required for this to work.

BTW, thanks to all those who sent us some data for testing... 
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