[Mapserver-users] MapInfo tif through Mapserver {Scanned}

[Siki Zoltan]

Hi,

As far as i understand your question, you have tif images
georeferenced for mapinfo. To display a raster (othophoto, scanned map)
in mapinfo you need a tif/jpg/... image file and a tab file with
fit in points coordinates in the image coordinate system and the 
map coordinate system. This is not supported in mapserver.
You must convert the tab file into a world file.
For the world file you need the coordinates of the upper left corner
of the image and the size of a pixel in x and y direction.
See raster howto.

Bye
Zoltan

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Trent Burton wrote:

> I am somewhat new to Mapserver and I am having trouble showing Mapinfo
> tiff's through Mapserver.  I am a little confused about wether the
> Windows binaries that are available for download from the Mapserver site
> actually have the support for images or not.  I was reading on the site
> something about having to recompile the executable from the source code,
> using additional libraries in order to get the image support!  Tell me
> this is not true!  Why wouldn't mapserver be compiled with every
> library?  Maybe I am misunderstanding something.  There does not seem to
> be anything useful in the way of debugging to help me through this
> issue.  I am using the default Mapserver interface to view my maps and
> basically, the layer does not draw.  I have been able to get oracle
> spatial, shape and cascaded layers to show fine.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Trent Burton
>