----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin Wetherbee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brent Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] The right tool for the job
> Brent Fraser wrote: > > 3. OpenLayers > > I'm really glad you mentioned this. I have installed it and poked > around a bit, and I love it! > > That takes care of the front-end quite nicely, but now I need to get > mapserv to start serving custom WMS data that gets pulled from PostgreSQL. > > It seems the tutorial uses a bunch of DBase files to define its layers, > so I'm just as lost as I was before I installed the tutorial. > > First, I'm going to wade through this [0] long thing, but I'm wondering > if there is a more comprehensive (and less image-heavy) > PostgreSQL-MapServer primer somewhere else? > 1. start with: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/vector_data/postgis 2. Read the LAYER object reference regarding CONNECTION http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/mapfile/layer 3. Search the email archive (sad but true) http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=mapserver-users or http://www.nabble.com/MapServer-f1214.html > > [0] > http://www.mapbender.org/presentations/Spatial_Data_Management_Arnulf_Christl/html/ > > _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users