[Mapserver-users] Suggestions

[Martin, Daniel]

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> 
> I am very new to mapserver, but have successfully installed 
> it, loaded the itasca demo, and gotten it to display a basic 
> interactive map of our city.  (Win2K, IIS, IE5.5)
> 
> To make my map file, I'm using Ross Searle's Arcview script.  
> However, I cannot seem to get a map to show up in his 
> javascript web page.  It writes a plain white map each time.  
> Anyone gotten this to work in windows/IIS environments?  In 
> the meantime, I'm cutting and pasting to the one from the 
> itasca demo to make my own maps (just for learning purposes so far).

If itasca works, MapServer works.  The issue is usually then in your .map
file.  I have the same OS, and web server - so I know that's not the
problem.  First I'd suggest looking at the image files MS created in your
temp directory.  Are they white too?  I'm not familiar with Ross's script,
but I had white maps when sending a PNG image to Rosa or Mapplet (before
they supported PNG).  But, I don't suspect you are using either.

> 
> Since my first project with MapServer is an informative map 
> of our city, with police beats and maybe some crime stats, I 
> need to learn a bit more and am open to suggestions.
> 
> 1.  How do I get street names, beat labels, and so forth to show up?

My quick and dirty directions for this is:
1. Create a folder in your MapServer folder called "fonts".
2. Drag all the fonts from C:\WINNT\FONTS into that folder.
3. Place the attached fontset.txt into that folder.
4. Add this to the highest level of your map file:
FONTSET "..\fonts\fontset.txt"
5. This is a portion of an example TIGER street layer:

LABELMAXSCALE 200000
LABELITEM "FENAME"
CLASS
  NAME "Streets"
  COLOR 130 130 130
  LABEL		
    MINFEATURESIZE 20
    MINDISTANCE 100
    BUFFER 10
    ANGLE auto
    POSITION auto
    TYPE TRUETYPE
    FONT arial_narrow
    SIZE 8
    COLOR 0 0 0
    OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
    ANTIALIAS true
  END
END


> 2.  Does mapserver do any address matching or GIS coordinate plotting?
> 
It doesn't geocode addresses if that's what you mean.  But that's not to say
people don't integrate a geocoder with MS - they do.  Not sure what you mean
by GIS coordinate plotting.

> When I have something worth publishing on the public server, 
> I'll post here and ask for some more feedback.  Until then, 
> thanks in advance!
> 
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