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

Wed Dec 10 15:40:24 PST 2008

Mr. Kristensen,

Brilliant!  That was exactly what I needed.  A correctly written mapfile was the last remaining major obstacle, and your installation helped me get through that as well as a bunch of other minor problems.  Thanks so much!

I will also be checking out the links and recommendations from other people in this thread, since I have a small bit of time remaining on this task.  Many thanks.

Justin

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From: Pål Kristensen <pal.kristensen at statkart.no>
To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 7:28:05 AM
Subject: Re: [MAPSERVER-USERS] help with converting Geoserver site to Mapserver

Hi Justin!

I've recently uploaded (to YouSendIt) a ms4w archive with a predefined WMS
service based on the countries dataset (which is included in my archive).
Hope that it helps you in setting up your web applications.

Regards,
Pål Kristensen

Justin Bailey-3 wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
>  
> 
> ________________________________
> 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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