[mapserver-users] Re: how to create a base map and serve it with WMS

[Mark Korver]

Yes, MapServer is all about making appropriately scaled maps on the
fly, and lot more.  To get started you need to go through a tutorial
on MapServer, how to create map files, get base image layer working
etc.

I am not up to date on what good newbie tutorials are out there.
Maybe somebody could chime in.

"Static" just refers to the fact that some layers in map change less
frequently than do others.  For example GPS location of a car will
need change constantly while the road the car is on changes only
occasionally.


On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:23 AM, jk <jk.chen at sdl.usu.edu> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> Thanks for your reply. As I'm only four-days new to Map Server, I am not
> even familar with how to create the base map in Map Server. I do have some
> concept of tile cashe, but that' s in very remote future. Can you shed more
> lights on how to create base map in Map Server? How to do it?
>
> Static, what do you meant by that? I'm also confused, by how the Map server
> will react when users zoom into differnt levels? Does the map server always
> step in and react when a new level is zoomed and requested, will the map
> server step in and make maps one the fly? Does that level (as well as other
> levels)  have to be specified in base map, .... Goosh, I'm so new to the map
> world..... pardon me for silly questions...
>
> So, how to create a base map?
>
> Thanks.
>
> JK
>
>
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