[mapserver-users] OSOpenData

[Lester Caine]

Brent Fraser wrote:
> Lester,
>
>
> To get started, assuming you have downloaded the data, you could use
> GDAL's ogrtindex (or gdaltindex for raster) to create a mapserver
> TILEINDEX of the thousands of map tiles...
>
> There will be lots of other issues:
> - for a particular dataset, are all the .dbf files the same? (a
> requirement for a TILEINDEX)
> - is there metadata describing the attributes? (to make the CLASS
> creation easier)
> - etc
>
> The desired quality of your output will determine how far you'll have to
> dig into the data...

Phase one complete ...
http://lsces.co.uk/mapper/display_map.php but unfortunatly the Isle of Man is 
not included in the 10k detail maps :(
Next step is to move the outline to cover the whole UK. The map is all there and 
can be navigated to from the Isle of Man setup.

I'm just looking into using the thesaurus data next so add a search facility.

> Lester Caine wrote:
>> Anybody playing with the maps that OS has no made available. In
>> particular anybody looked at how to build a map file for the thousands
>> of 10k map tiles?
>>
>> There is a bit of a bug in that data in that a few grid squares have
>> be processed with lower case file names, while the core info files
>> list them in upper case but at least they are there.
>>
>


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