[mapserver-users] Hello from Finland

[Iljya Kalai]

Welcome Stefan!

Your plan sounds great and I look forward to it. I'm also somewhat new here
:)

Iljya

On Sun., Mar. 14, 2021, 11:53 Stefan Gofferje, <lists at home.gofferje.net>
wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> I just wanted to quickly introduce myself. I just started tinkering with
> mapserver to see if I can make it work as a new backend for my weather
> website. I'm running www.saakeskus.fi as a free website for stormchasers
> in Finland since 2007. At the moment, it's tons of pre-rendered maps
> which are done with GrADS in a Joomla website. A while ago I started
> reworking the web part based on Leaflet and and started writing new map
> creation scripts in bash with GDAL. That works pretty nicely but results
> in one huge mapfile for each parameter at each time...
> And then I stumbled over mapserver... :).
> I have a test server running on docker on my home server at the moment
> and I'm making (I think) pretty good progress understanding how it
> works. I don't really know a lot about GIS stuff but I got my first
> working WMS maps from grib files out of it after about one and a half
> day of tinkering.
> On the old version of my website, I published almost all my GrADS
> scripts because there wasn't much information on the web on how to do
> nice weather maps with GrADS when I started. If I can make mapserver
> work for me, I'm planning to do the same with mapserver map files.
>
> Looking forward to the community!
> Have a beautiful Sunday!
> Stefan
>
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