Using the 4.x Tutorial

[Brian Peschel]

Ok, argueably, the tutorial doesn't help much without the data.  When 
something doesn't work is that because (for example) the scale of my 
data is drastically different than the tutorial data.  <shrug>

- B

Sears, Jeremy wrote:

>Quoting From http://hypnos.cbs.umn.edu/tutorial/ ...
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>" The dataset used in this tutorial was taken from the U.S. Department of
>the Interior's National Atlas of the United States. You can visit their web
>site at http://www.nationalatlas.gov."
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>and continues to say ..
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>" When using this tutorial, you are encouraged to use your own dataset."
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>Best Regards
>Jeremy
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU]On
>Behalf Of Brian Peschel
>Sent: December 9, 2005 12:09 PM
>To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Using the 4.x Tutorial
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>Being the newbie I am (and from advice from the DEV list), I went to go run
>through the tutorials.  So, I started with the first one:
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>http://hypnos.cbs.umn.edu/tutorial/
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>and I am missing something obvious.  Where do I get the data to use for this
>tutorial?  I can't seem to find any refernece to it.  Under the 'Tutorial
>Data' section, I see that the author got it from nationalatlas.gov, but no
>link to the data I need to run through the tutorials.  Any idea where I can
>get the data?  I assume it isn't the 'demo' you can download with the source
>for MapServer as the paths are different and I can't seem to find the same
>files.
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>Thanks in advance...
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