[mapserver-users] MapServer 3.5 OGR/MapInfo Demos

[Jeff McKenna]

Hello,

The Mapserver 3.5 (pre-alpha) Windows executable that was mentioned below
was in fact corrupt, and the new executable is on our site at:
http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/webtools/dl/php4.0.6_php_mapscript_35.zip

Have fun,

Jeff



Daniel Morissette wrote:

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