remark on virtualspatialdata-wiki (windows server)

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Paul,

Newer versions of MS4W have this problem fixed, all of the gdal 
reference files are included in /ms4w/gdaldata/ and the environment 
variable is set in apache.  Sorry about that.

jeff




Paul wrote:
> i had some problems working out the virtualspatialdata-wiki on my 
> windows 2000 server which i'd like to share with you. when i first 
> tested my virtual ogr file using ogrinfo, i recieved messages that the 
> file gcs.csv could not be opened, containing the projection information. 
> The reason was that i hadn't run setenv.bat.
> 
> Later when i tried to view the virtualdatalayer in mapserver i got the 
> same messages. Apparently mapserver/apache/ogr also didn't know where to 
> look for the projection-files. After introducing the parameter gdal_data 
> in apache config the layer was displayed properly.
> 
> SetEnv gdal_data "/ms4w/tools/ogr-utils/data"
> 
> maybe somebody has a different sollution?
> 
> Good luck everybody, working on similar issues,


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Jeff McKenna
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