Map files for dummies?

[Flavio Hendry]

Hi Dave

see http://umn.mapserver.ch/ ... lots of explanations and examples.

Mit freundlichem Gruss / Best Regards
Flavio Hendry

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Nuttall <dnuttall at DNLT.COM>
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:09:17 -0600
Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Map files for dummies?

> I have an instance of Mapserver 4.8.1 running on CentOS with Apache
> 2.20,
> PHP 5.1.2 and Mapscript running as a DSO.
> 
>  
> 
> I can make/display maps where I use the canned tutorials.  But I'm
> failing
> to create map displays when I substitute shapefiles that are of local
> interest.
> 
>  
> 
> The shapefiles in question are apparently valid, since I can read
> them
> without any problems using "ogrinfo -al shapefile.shp".
> 
>  
> 
> I extract the decimal dimensions and create my own *.map file, but
> all I
> ever get is the layer for pseudo-credits.
> 
>  
> 
> If someone could tweak my map file (which follows), it would be a
> valuable
> learning experience for me.
> 
>  
> 
> TIA.
> 
> Dave Nuttall
> 
> San Antonio, TX
> 
>  
> 
> Here is my map file:
> 
>  
> 
> MAP
> 
>     NAME BEXAR2
> 
>     STATUS ON
> 
>     SIZE 400 300
> 
>     IMAGETYPE PNG
> 
>     IMAGECOLOR 240 240 240
> 
>     SHAPEPATH "/var/www/data/texas"
> 
>     # the extents were pulled from the shape file with ogrinfo
> 
>     EXTENT 29.114435 98.116613 29.760630 98.806552
> 
>     UNITS DD
> 
>  
> 
>             LAYER
> 
>                         NAME "Bexar County"
> 
>                         TYPE POLYGON
> 
>                         STATUS ON
> 
>                         DATA "tgr48029all"
> 
>     # don't know if this projection is valid!
> 
>                         PROJECTION                                   
>     
> 
>                            "proj=latlong"
> 
>                            "ellps=GRS80"
> 
>                            "datum=NAD83"
> 
>                         END                 
> 
>                         CLASS                         
> 
>                         NAME "Bexar County"
> 
>                         OUTLINECOLOR 90 90 90
> 
>                         COLOR 0 255 0
> 
>                         END
> 
> END
> 
> # End of map layer
> 
>             
> 
> # This credits layer always works/displays!         
> 
>             LAYER
> 
>                                      NAME "credits"
> 
>                                      STATUS DEFAULT
> 
>                                      TRANSFORM FALSE
> 
>                                      TYPE ANNOTATION
> 
>                                      FEATURE
> 
>  
> POINTS 10 290
> 
>                                      END
> 
>                                      TEXT 'Made with Mapserver. AIM
> to see
> it.'
> 
>             END
> 
>             CLASS
> 
>                                     LABEL
> 
>                                     TYPE BITMAP
> 
>                                     POSITION CR
> 
>                                     COLOR 0 0 0
> 
>                                     END
> 
>                         END
> 
> END
> 
> # end of credits layer
> 
> END
> 
> # end of bexar2.map for Bexar County, Texas.
> 
>