[mapserver-users] Mapserver Bootstrap Group

[Don Holeman]

I am about at this step too, having compiled mapserver and walked through
the tutorial and studied the page composition of the tutorial examples. I've
been following discussons on this list as well, and while I'm learning a lot
of intermediate and advanced material I'm missing a lot of the basics, which
I'm rather embarrased to bother this list with as I know how redundant such
questions get.

Would anyone in the same boat care to join me in creating a short-term
Mapserver bootstrap group at yahoogroups where we could handhold each other
while we get ourselves up to speed with respect to the basics of  GIS and
Mapserver?

If so, you can join me here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bootstrappingmapserver/

Best,
Don Holeman



----- Original Message -----
From: "Zhang, William" <wzhang at c-cor.net>
To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 8:07 PM
Subject: [mapserver-users] Simple Map File Question



Hi,

I succeeded in compiling and runing MapServer demo on Win2000 with IIS 5.0.
Now I am trying to study the tutorials and get problem. When I run the
tutorial Section 1 -- Example 1 with the map file

NAME S1EX1
EXTENT -97.238976 41.619778 -82.122902 49.38562
SIZE 400 300
SHAPEPATH "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\test\tutorial35"
LAYER # States
  NAME "states"
  DATA states_ugl
  STATUS DEFAULT
  TYPE POLYGON
  CLASSITEM "STATE"
  CLASS
    NAME "Michigan"
    COLOR 255 255 128
    OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
  END # end of class object
END # end of layer object
END # end of map file

It works fine. But when I changed the map file to

NAME S1EX1
EXTENT -97.238976 41.619778 -82.122902 49.38562
SIZE 400 300
SHAPEPATH "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\itasca\test\tutorial35"
LAYER # Roads
  NAME "roads"
  DATA roads_ugl
  STATUS ON
  TYPE LINE
  CLASSITEM "ROAD"
  CLASS
    NAME "MichiganROAD"
    COLOR 255 255 128
  END # end of class object
END # end of layer object
END # end of map file

This does not work. It only shows a blank box. I downloaded roads_ugl.shp,
roads_ugl.shx and roads_ugl.dbf from
http://terrasip.gis.umn.edu/projects/tutorial35/download.html
and put them in the SHAPEPATH specified directory. I think it must be
something wrong in my map file. Could somebody kindly give me a hint?

Thanks,

William Zhang

C-Cor.net
E-Mail: wzhang at c-cor.net
Phone: (925) 251-3019
Fax:   (925) 467-0600





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