[mapserver-users] help with converting Geoserver site to Mapserver

[Alexandre Dube]

Hi Justin,

  MapServer already supports shapefiles format as datasource ( .shp ).

  There is plenty of informations on MapServer website about how to 
create your mapfile : http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/wms_server

  Go and see the "3.3   Sample WMS Server Mapfile" section.  This should 
be a good start for you.

Hope this helps,

Alexandre

Justin Bailey wrote:
> Hi list,
>  
> I hope I can get some assistance on a matter of some urgency.  Our 
> organization has been putting the finishing touches on an application 
> that is supposed to be released by the end of the year.  Unexpectedly, 
> it did not pass license review, because it used Geoserver, which is 
> GPL-licensed.  Since Mapserver has a more permissive license, and is 
> also WMS-compatible, the decision was made to switch to Mapserver.  It 
> now falls to me, as the junior developer, to do a 
> last-minute switchover.  Unfortunately I come to this task knowing 
> nothing about either Geoserver *or* Mapserver.
>  
> After some difficulty I succeeded in getting Mapserver running on our 
> existing Tomcat server, but I have not been able to figure out how to 
> convert the Geoserver data.  I have made some encouraging steps on the 
> Mapserver tutorial but I still know nothing about Geoserver, and I am 
> running out of time.  I need to solve this problem by the end of this 
> week if possible, or by the end of next week at the absolute latest.
>  
>  
> So, I have two questions:
>  
> 1) Is there a utility I could download that can convert a Geoserver 
> installation to Mapserver?
>  
> -- or --
>  
> 2) I *think* (crossing fingers) that the only thing I need to do, on 
> the application side, is to convert the following Javascript call...
>  
> var wms = new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS("World", 
> "geoserver/wms?service=wms", {layers: 'countries', bgcolor: 0x000055});
>  
> ...into its equivalent Mapserver call.  There are four countries.* 
> files in the geoserver repository:
>  
> countries.dbf
> countries.prj
> countries.shp
> countries.shx
>  
> How do I create countries.map to serve these files, and what 
> mapserv.exe call should I use?
>  
>  
> Many thanks for any and all assistance.
>  
> Justin
>
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Alexandre Dubé
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