[mapserver-users] Display GeoTIFF raster data

Stefan Stern mail2stern at gmx.net
Wed Jul 31 08:13:00 PDT 2002


Hi,

So far I create the images 'on fly' and call them in a source tag of a 
html file:

####

<img border="1" 
src="/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/home/userdirk/public_html/URGENT/subset.map&mode=map">

####

cheers,
Dirk

Hankley, Chip wrote:

>Is that you're entire mapfile? If so, you seem to be missing some critical
>pieces:
>
>First off, you need a WEB segment that tells Mapserver where to put the
>images... so something like:
>
>WEB
>  TEMPLATE my_template.html
>  IMAGEPATH "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\tmp\"
>  IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
>END
>
>I don't think this is necessary, but it's a good idea to specify the
>mapunits in your header section:
>
>UNITS meters
>
>Once this is in place, you should see *something* appear in your /tmp (or
>whatever name you set up) directory when MapServer executes. Your image may
>not render for some other reason... but at least you should be seeing a
>blank PNG or GIF or JPEG or whatever flavor of image you specify show up in
>that directory. My hunch is that is NOT happening now.
>
>Chip
>
>






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