aerial picture

blaise bpicinbono at WORLDONLINE.FR
Tue Mar 28 08:07:26 PST 2006


On Tuesday 28 March 2006 16:55, Jorge Zambrano wrote:
> Hi list, Does anyone know if it's posible and how to add an aerial picture
> (jpg) to a mapserver app??  I have an aerial picture of the place that I
> have on my postgis, and I want to add it as a layer on my map file.  I
> tried creating the relation of the image with the info in the db using
> georeferencer plugin from quantum gis, but it crashes when I try to
> generate the raster image.
>
> I'm working with ms4w 1.4.1, postgresql/postgis 8.1 and Chameleon 2.4 beta1

Did you check the raster howto ? :
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/raster_data
It's quite easy to add any raster layer, but you will need a world file to 
georeference it. You will need to know the coordinates of at least 3 points 
on your image for that.
Blaise



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