[Mapserver-users] Bytes of the Big Apple

[Matthew Haines]

Ed,

thanks for pointing me in the right direction.  I opened my file with 
ArcExplorer and was able to pick off the EXTENT pretty easily.  I opened the 
.prj file and found out the units were FEET.  Then I discovered that I also 
needed the LAYER name, and with a little guessing I figured it out from 
ArcExplorer.  Now I'm looking at a very nice map of the tax lots in the 
Bronx.

Hopefully in a few days I'll be adding this functionality to my web site, 
http://www.nycPropertyResearch.com/.  I checked out your web site and might 
be coming to you for some data as well.

Matthew

----Original Message Follows----
From: "Ed McNierney" <ed at topozone.com>
To: "Matthew Haines" 
<mhaines94108 at hotmail.com>,<mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Subject: RE: [Mapserver-users] Bytes of the Big Apple
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:43:27 -0400

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.
73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
North Chelmsford, MA  01863
ed at topozone.com
(978) 251-4242

-----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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