[Mapserver-users] Unable to display map

Eduardo Patto Kanegae eduardo at consultoria.eti.br
Thu Mar 18 06:49:45 EST 2004


Did you check if your shapefile has this extent value? EXTENT -180 -90 
180 90

A good way to check is to use "shpdump" tool from ShapeLib ( 
http://shapelib.maptools.org )

$ shpdump myshapefile.shp > mydumpfile.txt

open the TXT file and look for line 3 and 4.

that's all u need.

best.

Eduardo Patto Kanegae
http://www.consultoria.eti.br

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Pramila R Gawas escreveu:

> Dear MapServer experts,
>
> could you please help me with following problem?
>
> I'm trying to display data strored in shape file, but I allways get a
> blank map (image icon).
> The map file is as follows :
> NAME WORLD
> SIZE 500 650
> EXTENT -180 -90 180 90
> #UNITS METERS
> SHAPEPATH "/localhostname/user/abc/public_html/worldmap/data"
> STATUS ON
> #IMAGETYPE png
>
> LAYER
> NAME world
> TYPE POLYGON
> DATA world
> CLASS
> COLOR 181 181 181
> OUTLINECOLOR 50 10 100
> END
> STATUS DEFAULT
> END
>
> PROJECTION
> "proj=latlong"
> END
>
> WEB
> TEMPLATE demo.html
> IMAGEPATH "set in init.html"
> IMAGEURL "set in init.html"
> METADATA
> WMS_ONLINERESOURCE "http://localhost/~abc/init.html"
> END
> END
> END
>
>
>
> Could anybody get throught this problem.
>
>
> thanks
> pramila
>
>
>
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