[mapserver-users] New to Mapserver

[Sathiskumar Govindasamy]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. Yes I wanted to go to street level mapping in the 
coming days, but I wanted to start with atleast the US and state boundaries 
with Interstates on it now. I have downloaded the Tiger Line 2000 data for 
Illinois. I have installed OGR and I am able to see the information through 
ogrinfo. But, how to I write template file and .map file with layers ? I 
would greatly appreciate your help.

Thanks
Sathis
At 11:34 PM 2/8/2002 -0500, Walt Lin wrote:
>If you just want to draw the state outlines and labels, don't use
>TIGER-- use files from nationalatlas.gov .  If you need street level
>data for the whole US, then tiger is the way to go.  Nationalatlas
>should have just one layer for states-- setup your .map file for just
>one layer and off you go.
>
>On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 05:18:22PM -0600, Sathiskumar Govindasamy wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am new to Mapserver. I don't know where to start. I tried to go
> > through tutorial I couldn't get much out of it. I wanted the mapserver
> > to generate map of US with states marked. I was told to use Tiger Line
> > data. I don't loaded tigerline files for Illinois and also boundary line
> > shapefiles for all the state states. Can someone tell me how to start or
> > point me to some site where they have explained how to use Tiger data ?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Sathis
> >
> >
> >