[mapserver-users] Tutorial examples broken and missing.

[Jeff McKenna]

Hello Peter,

Thanks for pointing out these documentation errors.  My comments are 
inline below:

geep999 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 1/ I'm a new user of Mapserver on Slackware Linux fighting against the
> tutorial.
> Examples 1-5 to 1-8 are broken on http://demo.mapserver.org and locally on
> http://localhost
> 
> msLoadSymbolSet(): Unknown identifier. First token must be SYMBOLSET, this
> doesn't look like a symbol file.
> 
> I fixed these examples on my own mapserver by adding SYMBOLSET as first line
> of symbols35.sym
> Perhaps somebody could fix the official version.

Fixed.  Please verify.

> 
> 2/ Example 1-9 doesn't exist.
> 
> 3/ Examples 2.1 to 2.5 are all broken, and I don't know where to get the
> source of the examples to try them myself.
> (example2.map and example2-1.html through example2-5.html
> 
> Same error as above:
> msLoadSymbolSet(): Unknown identifier. First token must be SYMBOLSET, this
> doesn't look like a symbol file.

Fixed.  Please verify.

> 
> 4/ The link on this page - 
> http://mapserver.org/introduction.html#how-do-i-get-help
> http://mapserver.org/introduction.html#how-do-i-get-help  - 
> to "Search the archives" -  http://www.nabble.com/MapServer-f1214.html
> http://www.nabble.com/MapServer-f1214.html  is just wrong.
> The link points to some Spanish guys, seemingly chattng about seeds.

Fixed.  (no more frustrated MapServer users reading about seeds, ha)

> 
> 5/ This isn't the best introduction in the world to new users of mapserver.
> Hope someone can fix these niggles as mapserver deserves it.
> 

We'll try to give it some love.  Thanks for the feedback!

-jeff


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Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/