[MAPSERVER-USERS] help with converting Geoserver site to Mapserver

[Justin Bailey]

Hi Mr. Kristensen,

Thank you very much for you offer; I would greatly appreciate your help.

The ZIP containing the shape file and other data is over 15 MB, so I will upload it using YouSendIt right after sending this post.  The coordinate system is standard latitude/longitude; no need for MGRS or UTM or anything fancy.  The map should cover the entire globe..  Basic styling is fine; and the shape file should already contain the country boundaries.

Justin

P.S. To the others on this thread -- I feel I should correct a misconception.  I have already "invested" about three days in this project, one of which was spent just getting mapserv.exe to run under CGI.  I did not run to the mailing list as my first recourse; I am a firm believer that a person should put forth a best-effort attempt before asking for help.

 

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From: Pål Kristensen <pal.kristensen at statkart.no>
To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 2:20:39 PM
Subject: Re: [MAPSERVER-USERS] help with converting Geoserver site to Mapserver


Hi!

If you could provide the shape file, I could set up a complete and working
MapServer for Windows installation that only needs unzipping to the c:\
drive to work. The Map file will only contain basic styling of the file
(like boundaries and maybe country names if your dataset contains that
information). Changing the mapfile to add more complex drawing rules should
be quite easy. Just let me know if you'd like me to help.

It would be a great help if you could provide some information about the
coordinate system support that you need. 

Regards,
Pål Kristensen
Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority



Justin Bailey-3 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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