Creating a designated graphics file

[Bob Basques]

You could also run MapServer on the commandline as well and pipe the 
output to a location, you would need some sort of CGI if you need to 
pass the instructions via the Web though.

bobb


Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote:

>Do you need this functionality to be available from the web? Then as Tom 
>said you'll probably need Mapscript.
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>If you don't need it from the web, you could use shp2img and use > to 
>output it to a file. Ofcourse you can write your files to a 
>web-accessible directory.
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>shp2img -m mymap.map > c:\temp\out.png
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>Best regards,
>Bart
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>>Is there a way to use MapServer CGI to output a graphics file (GIF or JPG)
>>to a designated location with a designated name on a Windows/IIS server?
>>For example, I'd like to be able to call  mapserver.exe and tell it to name
>>the file "thismap.jpg" and create it in directory c:\wwwroot\projects\maps\
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>>Chip Taylor
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>>Prepared Response, Inc
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