[Mapserver-users] Australian Setup for MapServer

Mon Feb 9 09:32:04 EST 2004

You might want to start with an abbreviated map file for the shp's, or 
even for a single .shp file, and see if you can get that to work.  It's 
also acceptable to send a file snippet to the list when asking for help.

Confirm the projection you're working in with the .shp files, and look 
again at your extents.  Make sure the units are consistent.  I am not 
familiar with AGD projection... but according to the proj EPSG file, it 
appears to have either a UTM version (EXTENT would them be in meters) 
and a lat/lon version: that'd be in decimal degrees, with South and West 
represented as negative values.

Hopefully this will get you pointed on the right track.  Remember to 
post to the list for responses, as A) someone who's been bitten like 
this might be able to help now, and B) it might help someone in the 
future.  Archives are your friend!

The snippet below should get you some direct idea of how a working 
version is set up.  It's a portion of my .map for 
http://mesonet.tamu.edu/currentwx.html:

NAME TxMeso
STATUS ON
SIZE 700 700
#SIZE 650 650
EXTENT -106.8 25.8 -93.52 36.4
UNITS DD
SHAPEPATH "/var/www/mesonet/texas/data"
IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
FONTSET "fonts.list"
SYMBOLSET "symbols.sym"

IMAGETYPE PNG

WEB
   TEMPLATE "mesonet1.html"
   FOOTER mesonet_footer.html
   MINSCALE    25000
   MAXSCALE 50000000
   IMAGEPATH "/var/www/mesonet/tmp"
   IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
   METADATA
     WMS_TITLE "MesoNet Texas"
     WMS_ABSTRACT "Realtime Weather Interface"
     WMS_ACCESSCONSTRAINTS none

     # change this value to match your setup
     WMS_ONLINERESOURCE "http://mesonet.tamu.edu/index.php"

     WMS_SRS "EPSG:4269"
   END
END

                                                                     # 
Start of scalebar
#
SCALEBAR
   IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
   BACKGROUNDCOLOR 0 0 0
   LABEL
     COLOR 128 128 255
#    COLOR 1 1 1
     SIZE medium
   END
   STYLE 1
   SIZE 150 4
   COLOR 128 128 255
#  UNITS MILES
   UNITS kilometers
   INTERVALS 4
   TRANSPARENT TRUE
   STATUS on
END

#
# Legend
#
LEGEND
  STATUS ON
  IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
  POSTLABELCACHE ON
END

#
# Start of symbol definitions (we're only using a few)
#
SYMBOL
   NAME 'circle'
   TYPE ELLIPSE
   POINTS 5 5 END
   FILLED FALSE
END
SYMBOL
   NAME 'pwvcircle'
   TYPE ELLIPSE
   FILLED TRUE
   POINTS 10 10 END
END
LAYER
SIZEUNITS pixels
   NAME rain
   TYPE line
   DATA rain_dd
   STATUS false
   CLASS
     NAME 'Rainfall Contours'
     COLOR 25 20 200
   END  # CLASS
END  # LAYER

# Roads
LAYER
SIZEUNITS pixels
PROJECTION
         "init=epsg:4269"
END

   NAME roads
   TYPE line
   DATA usdotrds
   STATUS false
   CLASS
     NAME 'Roads'
     COLOR 132 132 132
   END
END  # LAYER

# Lakes and Rivers
LAYER
SIZEUNITS pixels
PROJECTION
         "init=epsg:4269"
END
   NAME rivers
   TYPE polygon
   DATA hydgen
   STATUS false
   CLASS
     NAME 'Lakes & Rivers'
     TEMPLATE "lakes.html"
     COLOR 100 125 225
   END

   HEADER "lakes_header.html"
   FOOTER "lakes_footer.html"

   TOLERANCE 3

END  # LAYER

# Radar Layer
LAYER
   TYPE RASTER
   STATUS ON
   NAME radar
SIZEUNITS pixels
PROJECTION
         "init=epsg:4269"
END
   DATA "/var/www/mesonet/gemdata/images/radar/01_mesonet.gif"
   OFFSITE 255 255 255
   CLASS
     COLOR -1 -1 -1
     NAME 'Doppler Radar Mosaic'
   END
END # LAYER

Nick Dabner wrote:
> Thanks for the advice Yuri. Have ordered the Ausway (Melways, Sydways) 
> street directories, but have the Sensis maps available. They are in ESRI 
> shapefile format, but fail to load. I hope running on OS X isnt the issue.
> 
> Actually think it is a projection (AGD?) and extent issue. I am 
> attempting to map melbourne, but the map extent always comes up as 1 
> mile or smaller.
> 
> Will keep fiddling.Think a re-read of the users manual may be in order.
> 
> Nick
> 
> 
> On 09/02/2004, at 10:53 AM, Balkanu GIS wrote:
> 
>> Hi Nick,
>>
>> Am a newbie to Mapserver too but have successfully shown ESRI 
>> shapefiles for
>> Cape York (Queensland) by specifying the map extent as
>> EXTENT 140 -11 147 -15
>>
>> Not familiar with Sensis or Ausways shapefiles - if they are the same 
>> format
>> as ESRI .shp they should display. Otherwise, MapServer would need to have
>> support for the file type compiled into it. And I don't suppse the 
>> standard
>> version would, since they would not be common or standard types.
>>
>> Good luck, keep us informaed
>> Yuri
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu
>> [mailto:mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu] On Behalf Of
>> dabner at optusnet.com.au
>> Sent: Sunday, 8 February 2004 16:45
>> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>> Subject: [Mapserver-users] Australian Setup for MapServer
>>
>>
>> hello,
>>
>> New to mapserver and have been pluggin
>> away with little success to get it to show my
>> part of the world. Does anyone have some
>> experience using sensis or ausways maps in
>> mapserver. Just need a start as mapserver is
>> rejecting the shapefiles.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Nick Dabner
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