Newbie questions

[Titus von der Malsburg]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 11:58:32AM -0400, Aldon Hynes wrote:
> How do I get MapServer to work with IIS?

As like any other CGI script.  See IIS documentation.

> How do I get MapScript working with IIS?

 * You could write your own CGI scripts i.e. in Python using mapscript.
 * Maybe you can write java servlets?
 * I belief there are people working on c# bindings, so you could maybe
   use .NET

> How do I find extents automatically without using ArcView?

Use the ogrinfo tool:

        ogrinfo.exe -al gshhs.shp

It will output something like:

        INFO: Open of `gshhs.shp'
        using driver `ESRI Shapefile' successful.

        Layer name: gshhs
        Geometry: Line String
        Feature Count: 219136
        Extent: (0.000000, -78.570396) - (360.000000, 83.633400)
        ...

> Is there a nice way to change the scaling?

What do you mean by "scaling"?

        Titus