[Mapserver-users] Re: Create .map from GIS

[pkishor_98 <pkishor at geoanalytics.com>]

--- In mapserver-users at yahoogroups.com, rodrigo at c... wrote:
> I'm new with mapserver. I have some GIS information 
> from my city, Buenos Aires (Argentina) and want to use it. 
> My problem is that i don't know how to create the .map file. 

Look at the example map file from the Itasca demo. Read the
documentation   at
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc36/mapfile-reference.html and the
notes on the wiki at http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl

> There is any app that do this for my? 

any plain text editor will do.

> How i do know 
> which file from the GIS i must to use in the .map file? 
> 

any file that you want to display on your map will go in the .map file.