[mapserver-users] wms base layers

[Daniel Morissette]

On 12-05-14 9:42 AM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> On 5/14/2012 5:31 AM, Rita Abreu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I´m a new user of mapserver.
>> Can anyone recomend me base layers for my project?
>> Can somenoe tell me how to add google layers or osm layers?
>
[...]
>
> If you really are asking how to pull OSM or Google into mapserver,
> instead of OpenLayers, then you will need to extract the OSM data into
> data layers and create a mapfile to render it in mapserver OR find an
> existing WMS service that you can pull OSM images into mapserver. You
> can not do this with Google it violates their TOS.
>

For a step by step recipe to load and render OSM with MapServer, see:

https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki/RenderingOsmDataUbuntu

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Daniel Morissette
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Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000