[Mapserver-users] Map File and MapScript for MapInfo files

[Lowell Filak]

Being that you are using a version from at least a year ago I have found  that it seems to work best to have the data in a directory below where the mapfile is.
I sometimes use a symbolic link to facilitate that and it works fine.
HTH
Lowell F.

The following message was sent by Robert Crossley <robert at wotzhere.com> on Wed, 04 Jun 2003 20:26:09 +1000.

> Hi all,
> 
> I am revisiting a site that has worked really well for the last year, but 
> now we want to make it use mapinfo files rather than shape files.
> 
> We have one map file that works with shape files but it doesn't when it is 
> pointed at the equivalent MapInfo files.  TO make matters harder, the 
> layers that are used are changed at runtime using mapscript, and it all 
> runs from an activeX that also has Image Web Server controls in it.  The 
> bottom line is that mapserver's errors don't get through, the map just 
> doesn't appear.
> 
> We have got mapserver working with mapinfo files OK on another site on that 
> computer, but there are no mapscript changes other than turning layers on 
> or off.
> 
> In the shape map file, I currently change the _data= property to the new 
> name.  The Shapepath definition acts as a reference point that I can change 
> the data used relative to that.
> 
> I think that I have to change the connection property for the mapinfo map 
> file, but I'm pretty sure that the paths are the problem.
> 
> Are the connection specs in the map file relative to the mapfile or should 
> (can) they include absolute paths?  In the one that is working they are 
> stored in a subdirectory below the web site, and the connection string 
> specifies a path relative to the web site (and map file).  Our data is on a 
> different drive.
> 
> Perhaps I just need to set up a page that simply gets mapserver to serve an 
> image directly from the map server and perhaps get a look at the errors.  I 
> liked the look of Daniel's MapEdit, but the server doesn't have php loaded. 
>  Any other suggestions?
> 
> R
> 
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