Reference Books

[Matt Pettis]

Hi,
 
I bought Beginning MapServer - Open Source GIS Development (Bill Kropla,
ISBN 1-59059-490-8).  I liked its strucutre and examples.  It starts
with a chapter on how to build it (on Linux systems), gives a very
simple mapfile example, and then does a very complex mapping example,
which it redoes it in the different mapscript languages (php, python,
and perl... includes the mapscript and web code it uses) -- the
redundancy of which is pretty helpful.  It also addresses how to do map
queries, which looks good, but i haven't used yet, so I'm not so
familiar, and different utility programs for map data.  It includes a
mapfile reference in the appendix.
 
In short, I like it, and refer to it when working on my web mapping
application.
 
Web Mapping Illustrated (OReilly, I forget the author) is a great book
on maptools, and has a good deal on mapserver, but also covers other
open source mapping tools.  If you are looking for something focused on
mapserver itself, however, I recommend the Kropla book.
 
hope this helps,
matt

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Hi All, 

I am new to MapServer, but getting everything implemented slowly.  I am
looking for a good reference book that can help me and also our web
developer.  I have many year of GIS experience, while our web developer
has none.  We are focusing mainly on OGC services (WMS/WFS) and
PHP/MapScript.

Any information would be appreciated. 

Cheers Ian 
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Napier City Council
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