[Mapserver-users] Has anyone setup GRASS + Mapserver on Windows 2000 ?

[Pericles Nacionales]

Stephen,

See answers to questions below:

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Stephen Clark wrote:

> Perry,
>
> Do you have a link to compile instructions to libgrass for Windows?
> FYI, I have a VC .NET compiler.
>

No, sorry, I've never compiled libgrass on Windows--either in Cygwin or
with the native compiler.

> Do you know if GDAL 1.1.9 supports grass directly?
>

According to the GDAL website, it supports reading of GRASS rasters but
not creating/exporting.  See
http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/frmt_grass.html for more info.

> Also is is possible to script some grass commands and make them available
> via the mapserver interface.
> What I am planning on doing is using GRASS to calculate a shortest route via
> some sort of web interface
> and display the results in Mapserver.  Do you know if anyone has tried this?
>

It sounds like you need to use Mapscript for your project.  Others can
probably give you a better answer to this than me.  How about it list?

You might also get a better answer to this question from the GRASS mailing
list.


> thanks
> Stephen
>
>

Ciao!
-Perry N.



> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pericles Nacionales" <nacional at cbs.umn.edu>
> To: "Stephen Clark" <stephen.clark at focus.ca>
> Cc: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 2:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] Has anyone setup GRASS + Mapserver on Windows
> 2000 ?
>
>
> > Stephen,
> >
> > If I haven't completely switched to GNU/Linux I probably would have.
> > Anyway, I can give you an advice if you're planning to go that route.  The
> > easiest way to do it is to compile everything under cygwin--GRASS,
> > MapServer, and all the libraries needed (GDAL, PROJ, GD2, etc).  You can
> > then use apache or IIS servers but make sure to avoid having spaces on
> > your path names.  So, no "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/htdocs".
> > Instead, install apache directly on "C:\" to get "C:/Apache/htdocs".  I
> > don't think you have that problem with IIS since the default
> > directory--"C:\Inetpub\wwwroot"--doesn't contain spaces.  There is also a
> > version of apache compiled under cygwin.  You can use that instead.
> >
> > Of course, you can just try compiling libgrass natively on Windows.  Then
> > you can can try compiling it with GDAL.  If it compiles without problems,
> > I'd take my "compiling under cygwin is the easiest way" statement back.
> > The rest is just a matter of finding out how to use GRASS data in
> > MapServer:
> > http://lists.gis.umn.edu/pipermail/mapserver-users/2003-April/003454.html
> >
> > Good luck!
> > -Perry N.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Stephen Clark wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am wondering if there is anyone has setup GRASS + Mapserver on Windows
> 2000 ?
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > Stephen
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