[mapserver-users] Meeting

[.d.z.a.]

Hi there, just to let anyone who cares know.

I am playing with Mapserver and PHP. TO help myself I started documenting
it. I will probably bundle it up and make it all nice for distribution.
still a couple of months away jsut because its not a priority....but I too
faced the documentation, and endedup just crawling htrough the perl examples
and stuff instead....

for anyone that fares anyhoo

cares even =)



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
[mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu]On Behalf Of Puneet
Kishor
Sent: 25 July 2001 03:47
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Cc: Mike Neuman
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Meeting


Mike,

On Tuesday, July 24, 2001, at 06:08  PM, Mike Neuman wrote:

>> MapServer is not just a success, it is a raving success.
>
>   I'm new to the Mapserver community. I would agree with this statement
> from
> a *technical* point of view, but strongly disagree from an
> approchability
> point of view. There are virtually NO examples of how to create maps, do

I wrote the above, and I stand by what I wrote, and yet, I
whole-heartedly agree with what you write.

I too am frustrated, with my regular web mapping solution, as well as
with Mapserver's lack of docs and examples. I waste immense number of
hours trying to solve something that has been documented wrong, or not
documented at all. Or, the syntax for classes and methods is there, but
no real example to wrap my hands around...

my current problem is trying to locate a polygon using a polygon id, and
then zooming to it... hours and hours of glossing over the miminal docs.

But you know what... this is still better than the commercial solution.
And while that still leaves Mapserver ways to go, it is really saying a
lot.

I really do appreciate the un-remunerated work that Steve, Daniel, and
others are doing, but we've together _got_ to take this further. Perhaps
the users meeting would be a right step.

As soon as I get my scripts and maps working, I am gonna make it
available to others for what its worth... maybe elementary for some, but
might save someone valuable time.

Cheers,

Puneet.