AW: [mapserver-users] Problems displaying tiffs and jpegs

[Lowell Filak]

I think there may be an error there. The mapfile you posted puts the data in <cgi-bin>/data/country.jpg whereas your data is really in <www_root>/htdocs/demo/data/country.jpg or am I missing something?
Lowell F.

The following message was sent by =?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicole_B=F6meke?= <bon at ivv-aachen.de> on Mon, 22 Apr 2002 17:44:25 +0200.

> country.jpg and country.wld are in the same directory as the shapefiles
> <cgi-bin>/../htdocs/demo/data/country.jpg. That seems correct to me,
> because when I rename the .wld files so that mapserver can not find them
> I get an error message. The error disapears when the names of the .wld files
> are correct. Seems mapserver looks for them in the directory I put them.
> 
> Nicole
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Lowell Filak [mailto:lfilak at medinaco.org]
> Gesendet: Montag, 22. April 2002 16:53
> An: Nicole Bömeke; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Betreff: Re: AW: [mapserver-users] Problems displaying tiffs and jpegs
> 
> This may seem to be a silly question but is country.jpg & country.wld in
> <cgi-bin>/data/country.jpg or in /temp/country.jpg ?
> Unless I'm missing something, I don't see a problem comparing the wld's &
> the extent.
> Lowell F.
> 
> The following message was sent by =?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicole_B=F6meke?=
> <bon at ivv-aachen.de> on Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:00:17 +0200.
> 
> > I did not change the top of the demo makefile,
> > that means I used the following settings with no PROJECTION defined:
> >
> > NAME DEMO
> > STATUS ON
> > SIZE 600 600
> > EXTENT 388107.634400379 5203120.88405952 500896.339019834 5310243.30613897
> > UNITS METERS
> > SHAPEPATH "data"
> > IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
> >
> > WEB
> >   HEADER demo_header.html
> >   TEMPLATE demo.html
> >   FOOTER demo_footer.html
> >   MINSCALE 1000
> >   MAXSCALE 1550000
> >   IMAGEPATH "set in demo_init.html"
> >   IMAGEURL "set in demo_init.html"
> > END
> >
> > Nicole
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Nicole Bömeke
> > IVV Aachen
> > Germany
> > bon at ivv-aachen.de
> >
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> > [mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu]Im Auftrag von Stephen
> > Woodbridge
> > Gesendet: Freitag, 19. April 2002 14:43
> > An: bon at ivv-aachen.de
> > Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> > Betreff: Re: [mapserver-users] Problems displaying tiffs and jpegs
> >
> > Nicole,
> >
> > The .wld files are in some kind of projection in METERS. What does the
> > top of your mapfile look like? Have you specified a PROJECTION .. END?
> > What are your EXTENTS? What are your UNITS?
> >
> > I think maybe these do not match your images. Which would account for
> > your images not showing up.
> >
> > -Steve
> >
> > Nicole Bömeke wrote:
> > >
> > > Just for testing, I now tried to display images in .jpg format instead
> of
> > > .tif format.
> > > But I got the same result - nothing shows up. I think I'm doing
> something
> > > really wrong.
> > >
> > > I used the jpegs created through mapserver in the /temp/ directory
> (output
> > > IMAGETYPE JPEG).
> > > After converting them to greyscale images with Paint Shop Pro, I had two
> > > jpeg images
> > > country.jpg and lakes.jpg. In the world files for these jpegs, I used
> the
> > > minx and the
> > > maxy extend from the shapefiles.
> > >
> > > country.wld:
> > > -----------------
> > > 0.6
> > > 0.0000000000
> > > 0.0000000000
> > > -0.6
> > > 388107.634400379
> > > 5310243.30613897
> > >
> > > lakes.wld:
> > > -----------------
> > > 0.6
> > > 0.0000000000
> > > 0.0000000000
> > > -0.6
> > > 393234.393701
> > > 5303964.87675
> > >
> > > To display the jpegs I modified the .map file from the demo like this:
> > >
> > > #
> > > # Start of layer definitions
> > > #
> > >
> > > LAYER
> > >   NAME ctybdpy2
> > >   TYPE RASTER
> > >   STATUS DEFAULT
> > >   DATA country.jpg
> > > END
> > >
> > > LAYER
> > >   NAME lakespy2
> > >   TYPE RASTER
> > >   STATUS OFF
> > >   DATA lakes.jpg
> > >   CLASS
> > >     COLOR 49 117 185
> > >   END
> > > END
> > >
> > > It would be gread, if you could help me, because by now I'm really
> stuck.
> > > Thanks, Nicole.
> > >
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Nicole Bömeke
> > > IVV Aachen
> > > Germany
> > > bon at ivv-aachen.de
> > >
> > > -----Original message-----
> > > >>> Nicole Bömeke <bon at ivv-aachen.de> 04/12/02 01:48 AM >>>
> > > >
> > > > 1.) I read about an example called landsat (that uses tiffs), but I
> > > >     can't find a link to it anywhere.
> > > >     Can anybody tell me where I can get it or send a zipped copy of
> > > >     it to my mail adress?
> > > >
> > > > 2.) Are there other examples using tiffs available? I need a tiff and
> > > >     a corresponding word file
> > > >     that is known to work with mapserver.
> > > >
> > > > 3.) I have the problem that my tiff does not show up.
> > > >     It is an 8 Bit uncompressed tiff with size 600 x 600.
> > > >
> > > >     I used a world file like this:
> > > >     0.6
> > > >     0.0000000000
> > > >     0.0000000000
> > > >     -0.6
> > > >     400000.00
> > > >     5255555.00
> > > >
> > > >     To try it, I replaces the background layer of the itasca example
> > > >     by this layer definition:
> > > >     LAYER
> > > >         NAME ctybdpy2
> > > >         TYPE RASTER
> > > >         STATUS DEFAULT
> > > >       DATA test.tif
> > > >     END
> > > >
> > > >     Has anybody an idear what I can do?
> > > >     Thanks, Nicole.
> > > >
> > >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >     Nicole Bömeke
> > > >     IVV Aachen
> > > >     Germany
> > > >     bon at ivv-aachen.de