On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 01:58:22PM -0400, Frank Warmerdam wrote: > Wendell Turner wrote: >> Why does the mapserv program in the mapserver-5.0.2-4.2 rpm >> not support geotiff as input? Isn't geotiff a common format >> for this type of application? Or is it that geotiff files >> are served up as (plain) raster images with a shapefile? > > Wendell, > > How did you determine that geotiff is not supported? Generally MapServer > is built --without-tiff allowing tiff support to be provided by GDAL. > > It might also be helpful if you indicated the source of the .rpm you are > referring to since I don't think it is an official product of the project > and there are a number of sources for rpms.
Thank you for the quick response. The rpm was from one of the CentOS5 repositories, actual rpm is mapserver-5.0.2-4.2.i386.rpm, I think I got it from somewhere at rpm.pbone.net, possibly here http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/6383115/com/mapserver-5.0.2-4.2.i386.rpm.html. mapserv -v does not show 'input=geotiff', which I thought was bad. So then, the proper way is to generate a shapefile for the geotiff file, have mapserver read the shapefile for parameters, and use the gdal library to do the geotiff/raster processing? Is a raster image with associated shapefile about the same as a geotiff (as far as pixels + metadata about the position, projection, etc)? Thanks again, Wendell _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users