Newbie questions

[Dirk Tilger]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 03:45:16PM +0000, Jon Hadley wrote:
> - I have some maps in JPG format. What's the quickest and easiest way
> of displaying these via mapserver?

When you don't got a world file (.jgw) with them:
- find a few points on the map that you know the coordinates of
- georectify the map and generate a world file

- create a .map
- add a layer for your RASTER image(s) using the GDAL driver

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