[Mapserver-users] Bytes of the Big Apple

[Ed McNierney]

Matthew -

If you haven't worked with GIS data before, ANY map serving software will be hard to figure out <G>.

At the simplest level, if you've got the Itasca demo working, you need to (a) change the data to point to your data layers and (b) set the UNITS and EXTENT of the map to values appropriate to your data.

Have you looked at these files in a desktop GIS package?  You should know what projection they're in and the extent (min and max X and Y coordinates) of the area you're interested in.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
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North Chelmsford, MA  01863
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-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Haines [mailto:mhaines94108 at hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 9:04 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: [Mapserver-users] Bytes of the Big Apple


I am just starting with MapServer, and I must say it's very hard to figure 
out
how to get started.  I have the sample map data file from New York City,
(Bytes of the Big Apple) and it has various files (.dbf, .prj, .shp, .shx).

Has anyone worked with these files before?  I got the Itasca demo files 
working,
but I wasn't really able to figure out from that exercise how I should go 
about
getting the NYC data displayed.  I haven't worked with GIS data before, but 
I've
been programming in various languages for 20 years.

Matthew Haines
http://www.nycPropertyResearch.com

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