Cartography : Beginner

[Gregor Mosheh]

> Having wasted three days trying to install/run php_mapscript starting with
> 5.2.1, still not working

Have you given a try to FWTools (Linux), HostGIS Linux, or MS4W 
(Windows)? Those can really take a lot of the pain out of getting started.

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Gregor Mosheh / Greg Allensworth
System Administrator, HostGIS cartographic development & hosting services
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