[mapserver-users] Need help selecting vector data source

[Pablo Romero]

Roger,
YES!!! excellent, this worked perfectly...
The documentation doesnt seem to be very clear on how exactly to compose a mapfile with multiple layers, but looking at your examples, everthing made much more sense.
 
Thanks a million for your quick and elaborate help.
You're a life-saver and mapserver guru in my book...
Cheers,
P.Romero



Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 08:27:15 -0800From: randre at gmail.comTo: romero619 at hotmail.comSubject: Re: [mapserver-users] Need help selecting vector data sourceCC: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.orgHi Paul,This this do what you needed?Thanks,Roger--
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Roger André <randre at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Paul,This ought to get you started.  The "florida.map" is the project mapfile and looks for the "coastline.map", "lakes.map", and "islands.map" mapfiles for each of the separate layers.  You should just need to change the path in each of the DATA lines to point at your shapefiles. Attached is the image this generates, as well as the mapfiles.  You'll have to tweak the colors yourself.Roger--



On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 8:47 PM, P.Romero <romero619 at hotmail.com> wrote:



Ok, Ive attached the image…
 




From: Roger André [mailto:randre at gmail.com] Sent: 2009-01-03 10:28 PMTo: P.Romero


Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Need help selecting vector data source




 
Hi Paul,The image of what you want this to look like didn't come through to the list.  Can you send it to me directly?  I'll work up a mapfile that will look like it for you.Roger--

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 8:16 PM, P.Romero <romero619 at hotmail.com> wrote:


Roger,
Thanks for the advice, I downloaded the 1.6 version.
Another question: I cant seem to find a way to "merge" the two layers: "land" and "lakes", since their each from a separate shapefile, and are on a separate layer. Is it even possible to merge the layers? Here's my map file:
 
MAP
NAME "dd"
UNITS DD
EXTENT -90 20 -60 35
SIZE 600 600
SHAPEPATH "/data/apps/mapserver/shp"
IMAGECOLOR 130 180 200
WEB
IMAGEPATH /var/www/html/images/mapserver
IMAGEURL /images/mapserver
LOG /var/log/maplog
END
LAYER
            NAME "gshhs_land"
            TYPE POLYGON
            STATUS ON
            DATA "gshhs_land.shp"
                        CLASS
                                    STYLE
                                                COLOR 240 240 230
                                                OUTLINECOLOR 240 240 230
                                    END
                        END
            END
END
LAYER
            NAME "gshhs_lake"
            TYPE POLYGON
            STATUS ON
            DATA "gshhs_lake.shp"
                        CLASS
                                    STYLE
                                                COLOR 130 180 200
                                    END
                        END
            END
END
 
The first layer seems to simply overlap and cover the second layer.Im not sure how to set the transparency of a layer (I read through the documentation, but it wasn't very clear).
Basically, I want land a beige color, and oceans (background) and bodies of water (polygons from the "lakes" shapefile) to be a blue color.
 
What should I do? Do this require something drastic, like merging the land & lakes shapefiles, or something like this?
Please help,
Thanks,
P.Romero
 
 




From: Roger André [mailto:randre at gmail.com] Sent: 2009-01-03 8:43 PMTo: Pablo RomeroCc: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.orgSubject: Re: [mapserver-users] Need help selecting vector data source


 
Version 1.6 of the gshhs shapefiles are polygon features.  You can find them at ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/GIS/GISData/GSHHS/--

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Pablo Romero <romero619 at hotmail.com> wrote:

hello,I need help selecting a datasource to produce the following: a basic, high-resolution land map, showing ONLY coastlines and bodies of water. basically, Im trying to emulate a type of image tiling that I found on another site, which I believe is also being produced using mapserver, but Im unsure about which data source/shapefile is being used.  Ive ATTACHED the image. You can see that image includes a high-resolution map of the florida coast, including interior bodies of water. Ive tried using the "admin98.shp" and "world_vector_shorelines.shp" in order to recreate these results, but these two shapefiles dont include interior bodies of water (lakes, ponds, etc.). Ive ALSO tried using the gshhs shapefiles (http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html), and these *seem* like they might work, but they are broken up into separate shapefiles for coastal outline, lakes, ponds, etc., and these shapefiles are IN LINES instead of POLYGONS/POLYLINES, so I cannot figure out how to "fill" the space between "lines" with a different color  in order to make the landmasses and interior bodies of water "stand out". So, simply put, my question is: can someone please help me figure out / recommend which data source I should use in order to produce output similiar to the image Ive attached? just high-resolution coastal outline and interior bodies of water IN decimal degrees (WGS1984?), please help.... P.Romero

 



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