[mapserver-users] Trouble with mode=tile

Dave Rafkind drafkind at traversetechnologies.com
Fri Jan 2 16:12:18 EST 2009


Hi, thanks for your reply. Results follow:

I can't remove the PROJECTION block, otherwise I get this error from 
mapserver:
msTileSetProjectionst(): WMS server error. Cannot set new SRS on a map 
that doesn't have any projection set. Please make sure your mapfile has 
a PROJECTION defined at the top level.

QGis thinks this is the spatial information for my test shapefile, this 
is 4326 (basically unprojected), right?
+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs

If I have the PROJECTION block in the mapfile, I can indeed see tiles of 
some kind, but it looks like each tile overlaps in its spatial extent.

See attached for "wrong" results..I changed some of the colors so it 
would be more obvious.




Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Dave,
>
> - Remove the PROJECTION block from the MAP level (leave the one at the
> LAYER level). Tile mode constructs its own output projection object,
> it doesn't need map file configuration for the output projection, just
> the inputs.
> - Confirm that the shape file you are using *is* in fact epsg:4326
> - Try manually accessing the service using tile=0 or tile=1, and see
> what comes back
> - Show some pictures of "wrong" in your next mail
>
> P.
>
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Dave Rafkind
> <drafkind at traversetechnologies.com> wrote:
>   
>> Thanks for the suggestions, but I don't think that's quite it:
>>
>> 1 - removing "epsg:4326" from the wms_srs part of the mapfile didn't fix it
>> 2 - adding "&SRS=EPSG:900913" to the Virtual Earth "tileSource" string
>> didn't fix it
>>
>> Is there anything else I can try?
>>
>>
>> Fawcett, David wrote:
>>     
>>> Dave,
>>> I am not sure if this is it, but in your WMS request, you are not
>>> specifying a SRS.  You are advertising two SRS' in your WEB WMS
>>> "wms_srs" metadata.  I wonder if MapServer is just defaulting to the
>>> first SRS in your list in the absence of an explicit request?
>>> David.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>>> [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Dave
>>> Rafkind
>>> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 12:39 PM
>>> To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
>>> Subject: [mapserver-users] Trouble with mode=tile
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi list, I'm using the latest ms4w on a windows XP box. When trying to use
>>> mapserver's tile mode in a Virtual Earth or Google Maps control, it
>>> looks totally wrong (like the wrong projection is being used perhaps?).
>>> What is the right way to go about this?
>>>
>>> Here's mapserver.exe -v:
>>>
>>> C:\ms4w\Apache\cgi-bin>mapserv -v
>>> MapServer version 5.2.1 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP
>>> OUTPUT=PDF
>>>  OUTPUT=SWF OUTPUT=SVG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=AGG SUPPORTS=FREETYPE
>>> SUPPORTS=ICO
>>> NV SUPPORTS=FRIBIDI SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT
>>> SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER
>>> SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER SUPPORTS=SOS_SERVER
>>> SUPPORTS=FASTCGI SUP
>>> PORTS=THREADS SUPPORTS=GEOS SUPPORTS=RGBA_PNG INPUT=JPEG INPUT=POSTGIS
>>> INPUT=OGR
>>>  INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE
>>>
>>> Here's the relevant part of my web page with the map control:
>>>        map=new VEMap('myMap');
>>>        // ...
>>>        var layerId = "myCustomTileLayer";
>>>        var tileSource =
>>> "http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/src/maps/mapdata/maps/dave1.m
>>> ap&layers=world&mode=tile&tilemode=ve&tile=%4";
>>>        var tileSourceSpec = new VETileSourceSpecification(layerId,
>>> tileSource);
>>>        // ...
>>>
>>> Here's the last line of my EPSG file (from c:\ms4w\proj\nad\epsg)
>>>        # google/virtual earth spherical mercator
>>>        <900913> +proj=merc +a=6378137 +b=6378137 +lat_ts=0.0 +lon_0=0.0
>>>
>>> +x_0=0.0 +y_0=0 +k=1.0 +units=m +nadgrids=@null +no_defs <>
>>>
>>>
>>> And here's my map file:
>>> MAP
>>>  IMAGETYPE      PNG
>>>  OUTPUTFORMAT
>>>    NAME png
>>>    DRIVER "GD/PNG"
>>>    MIMETYPE "image/png"
>>>    IMAGEMODE RGBA
>>>    EXTENSION "png"
>>>    TRANSPARENT ON
>>>  END
>>>
>>>  SHAPEPATH      "/src/maps/mapdata"
>>>  FONTSET     "/src/maps/mapdata/fonts.list"
>>>  IMAGECOLOR     0 0 0
>>>
>>>    WEB
>>>  METADATA
>>>    "wms_title"           "WMS Demo Server"
>>>    "wms_onlineresource"
>>>  "http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/src/maps/mapdata/maps/dave1.m
>>> ap&"
>>>    "wms_srs"             "EPSG:4326 EPSG:900913"
>>>  END
>>> END
>>>
>>>      PROJECTION
>>>      "init=epsg:900913"
>>>    END
>>>
>>>  SYMBOL
>>>    name "circle"
>>>    type ellipse
>>>    filled true
>>>    POINTS 1 1 END
>>>  END
>>>
>>>  SYMBOL
>>>    NAME 'dashed1'
>>>    TYPE ELLIPSE
>>>    POINTS 1 1 END
>>>    FILLED true
>>>    STYLE 4 4 END
>>>  END
>>>
>>>  SYMBOL
>>>    NAME 'railway'
>>>    TYPE cartoline
>>>    LINECAP butt
>>>    LINEJOIN miter
>>>    LINEJOINMAXSIZE 3
>>>    STYLE
>>>      1 10 1 10
>>>    END
>>>  END
>>>
>>>  LAYER
>>>    PROJECTION
>>>      "init=epsg:4326"
>>>    END
>>>    NAME         world
>>>    DATA     "world/world_adm0.shp"
>>>    STATUS OFF
>>>    TYPE         LINE
>>>    LABELITEM     "REGION"
>>>    CLASS
>>>      STYLE
>>>                COLOR 255 255 255
>>>                OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
>>>      END
>>>      LABEL
>>>        COLOR 0 0 0
>>>        OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
>>>        TYPE TRUETYPE
>>>        FONT arial
>>>        SIZE 9
>>>        ANTIALIAS TRUE
>>>        PARTIALS FALSE
>>>        MINDISTANCE 250
>>>        BUFFER 4
>>>      END
>>>    END
>>>  END
>>> END
>>>
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