simple tool for conversion

[Ed McNierney]

Joseph -

You can indeed do something like that; please post the entire LAYER
block that you're using to create those points.  Remember that inline
features go in a separate layer, not in your zip point shapefile layer.

        - Ed

Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
North Chelmsford, MA  01863
Phone: +1 978 251-4242   Fax: +1 978 251-1396  

-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
Behalf Of Joseph Norris
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 2:36 AM
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] simple tool for conversion

Eric,

I have one question now that all of my points are showing via lon/lat I
have one other question.

I have tried to put features in but they will not show.  Can I not do
something like

Feature

   Points  mylon mylat end
   Text " my  text "
End

And it should show up on the map?

Thanks.

#Joseph Norris (Perl - what else is there?/Linux/CGI/Mysql) print @c=map
chr
$_+100,(6,17,15,16,-68,-3,10,11,16,4,1,14,-68,12,1,14,8,-68,4,-3,-1,7,1,
14,-
68,-26,11,15,1,12,4,-68,-22,11,14,14,5,15,-90);

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Bridger [mailto:eric at gomoos.org]
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 2:04 PM
To: Joseph Norris
Cc: UMN MapServerList
Subject: RE: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] simple tool for conversion


On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 16:17, Joseph Norris wrote:
> Eric,
>
> Thank you for this information.  If I have to switch shapefiles to get
this
> to work - then I am all for it.  So as I understand you,
>
> I have obtained the California state map as you indicated on your
link.
> Does this mean that I can build my teacher shape file using the actual

> lat/long that I have and then I would be closer to my new California 
> state map knowing about my new teacher shapefile?

Yes. These are zipcode polygons with no projection, in latitude
longitude.

You can use: mapserver-N.N.N/mapscript/perl/examples/shpinfo.pl
-file=zt06_d00  to find the extents and the field names in the DBF.