[postgis-users] dataset for postgis

Hao Ding hdi12 at it.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Jul 2 04:50:54 PDT 2002


Hi Tyler,

It's so nice I can get help from you. Thanks again.  I've already installed 
Mapserver demo application and it works well.  Could you please give me step 
by step directions on how to handle those data and make it work with 
mapserver?

Regards,
Hao

>===== Original Message From Tyler Mitchell <themitchells at telus.net> =====
>hi Hao,
>Do you have the Itasca demo data for Mapserver?  You can use the postgis tool
>called 'shp2pgsql' (I can give you more info if needed) to create a SQL file
>and then you can load the sql commands into postgis.
>I don't have time right now but I'll gladly help walk you through it.  I even
>have a set of SQL files for the demo data available if you want them.  Just
>let me know.
>
>Tyler
>On Monday 01 July 2002 09:44 pm, you wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Now I am implementing a OGC WMS client application.  I have installed
>> MapServer as WMS server and postgis as back-end datasource.  Where can I
>> find some spatial dataset that can be stored in the postgis and used by
>> MapServer? If I get some dataset, how to put them into postgis and make
>> them work with MapServer?
>>
>> These questions could be simple for someone, but I am a new user of
>> MapServer and postgis, and the documents don't provide me all information I
>> am hunting. Thanks very much for any help?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Hao
>>
>>
>>
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