[mapserver-users] Diagnostics

[Ted Spradley]

Hi Lars,

Being a newbie myself, hopefully I can help a little.  The tool is a good
idea.  Basically an user interface written in C/C++ that takes the templates
for different areas and gives choices for each item.  I'll try to take that
on and write one for myself.  If it works out, I will offer it as my
contribution to the cause, pending getting to a point where I can take the
time to do it.

A lot of the raw info you are looking for is the folder /usr/local/share in
my Linux installation of Mapserver.  Look in each of those directories and
use a text editor to get at the info.

For example in the text file /usr/local/share/proj/epsg is a list of many of
the EPSG projections.  As well you can add some of the custom ones added by
like the Canadian government, etc. yourself.  The /usr/local/share/gdal/
directory has csv and wkt files of ellipsoids, axes, measurement units, etc.  

In lieu of a user interface, I used the book 'Web Mapping Illustrated' by
Tyler Mitchell from O'Reilly to get me crawling with the application.  The
book is a little out of date now (pub in 2005) as far as many of the links
go, but with a little patience it has been an invaluable learning tool.  It
gets you up and running making maps with Frank's FWTools.org desktop tool
set, then when you encounter the items in Mapserver they are not unknown to
you.

Good luck!
Ted S.


Lars Westerlind wrote:
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> It would be useful for a dummy to have a tool, that describes available
> resources in an installation; I'm particularly interested in what
> projections could be used and their attributes. But for newbies
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> It would help very much also to show other aspects; perhaps a tool that
> takes a mapfile as parameter, and shows all available symbols, fonts,
> directories, how to call it, etc etc... Is there such an animal? I mean,
> in the mapfile surely I describe the projections a user could use. But I
> need to know from my environment what projections could be added to the
> mapfile, as they are supported by the system? 
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