[mapserver-users] Hello from Finland

[Stefan Gofferje]

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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  (o_   Stefan Gofferje            | SCLT, MCP, CCSA
  //\   Reg'd Linux User #247167   | VCP #2263
  V_/_  https://www.gofferje.net   | https://www.saakeskus.fi