please - please - can anybody shed any light on what I am doing wrong?

[Ed McNierney]

Then I'll make another request - please always reply to the whole list <g>.  There's no particular reason to think I'm likely to be the best person to help with database joins!  I'm copying the list since I expect someone with a ready answer will be able to reply more easily and quickly than I can.

        - 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: Joseph Norris [mailto:sirronj at pacbell.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 7:47 PM
To: Ed McNierney
Subject: RE: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] please - please - can anybody shed any light on what I am doing wrong?

Sorry about that Ed.

I got it working with your help and the other members of the list.  Thanks for putting up with me.  Now just one more little thing.
Do you have a source of a how-to for a simple join of shape file to data so that I can use my tiger files with the layers of data?

I have started with the most simple - California tiger shape file with 5-zip data file.

Thank you.   And if you can not or do not have time - thanks anyway.


#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: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu]On Behalf Of Ed McNierney
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 3:50 PM
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] please - please - can anybody shed any light on what I am doing wrong?

Ethan, Joesph and list -

I had the wrong URL (see Ethan's message below) because I copied it from the original message (see Joseph's original post):

"The image "http://mco.communityservers.com/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/usr/local/apache/htdocs/mco.communityservers.com/htdocs/maps/cal/cal.map&mode=map" cannot be displayed, because it contains errors."

Please be careful when reporting errors, and be sure to report the error message you actually receive!  Festina lente, as they say....

        - 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: Ethan Alpert [mailto:ealpert at digitalglobe.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 4:35 PM
To: Ed McNierney
Subject: RE: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] please - please - can anybody shed any light on what I am doing wrong?



FYI you have the wrong URL

http://mco.communityservers.com/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/usr/local/apache/ht
docs/mco.communityservers.com/htdocs/maps/cal.map&mode=map

-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed McNierney
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 2:31 PM
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] please - please - can anybody shed any light on what I am doing wrong?


Wow!  Such a flurry of energy!

Take a deep breath.  Now, instead of trying to use that URL as the SRC field of an IMG tag, simply copy it into the address bar of your browser.  You will find that MapServer is attempting to give you a possibly informative text message:

http://mco.communityservers.com/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/usr/local/apache/ht
docs/mco.communityservers.com/htdocs/maps/cal/cal.map&mode=map

MapServer will tell you that it is unable to read your MAP file, either because the path to it is wrong (it's looking for /usr/local/apache/htdocs/mco.communityservers.com/htdocs/maps/cal/cal.ma
p) or because there is an access/permissions problem.

        - Ed

"All of nature talks to me.
 If I could just figure out what it's trying to say..."
   - Laurie Anderson

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