Mr. Kristensen, Brilliant! That was exactly what I needed. A correctly written mapfile was the last remaining major obstacle, and your installation helped me get through that as well as a bunch of other minor problems. Thanks so much!
I will also be checking out the links and recommendations from other people in this thread, since I have a small bit of time remaining on this task. Many thanks. Justin ________________________________ From: Pål Kristensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 7:28:05 AM Subject: Re: [MAPSERVER-USERS] help with converting Geoserver site to Mapserver Hi Justin! I've recently uploaded (to YouSendIt) a ms4w archive with a predefined WMS service based on the countries dataset (which is included in my archive). Hope that it helps you in setting up your web applications. Regards, Pål Kristensen Justin Bailey-3 wrote: > > Hi Mr. Kristensen, > > Thank you very much for you offer; I would greatly appreciate your help. > > The ZIP containing the shape file and other data is over 15 MB, so I will > upload it using YouSendIt right after sending this post. The coordinate > system is standard latitude/longitude; no need for MGRS or UTM or anything > fancy. The map should cover the entire globe.. Basic styling is fine; > and the shape file should already contain the country boundaries. > > Justin > > P.S. To the others on this thread -- I feel I should correct a > misconception. I have already "invested" about three days in this > project, one of which was spent just getting mapserv.exe to run > under CGI. I did not run to the mailing list as my first recourse; I am a > firm believer that a person should put forth a best-effort attempt before > asking for help. > > > > ________________________________ > From: Pål Kristensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org > Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 2:20:39 PM > Subject: Re: [MAPSERVER-USERS] help with converting Geoserver site to > Mapserver > > > Hi! > > If you could provide the shape file, I could set up a complete and working > MapServer for Windows installation that only needs unzipping to the c:\ > drive to work. The Map file will only contain basic styling of the file > (like boundaries and maybe country names if your dataset contains that > information). Changing the mapfile to add more complex drawing rules > should > be quite easy. Just let me know if you'd like me to help. > > It would be a great help if you could provide some information about the > coordinate system support that you need. > > Regards, > Pål Kristensen > Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority > > > > Justin Bailey-3 wrote: >> >> Hi list, >> >> I hope I can get some assistance on a matter of some urgency. Our >> organization has been putting the finishing touches on an application >> that >> is supposed to be released by the end of the year. Unexpectedly, it did >> not pass license review, because it used Geoserver, which is >> GPL-licensed. Since Mapserver has a more permissive license, and is also >> WMS-compatible, the decision was made to switch to Mapserver. It now >> falls to me, as the junior developer, to do a last-minute switchover. >> Unfortunately I come to this task knowing nothing about either Geoserver >> *or* Mapserver. >> >> After some difficulty I succeeded in getting Mapserver running on our >> existing Tomcat server, but I have not been able to figure out how to >> convert the Geoserver data. I have made some encouraging steps on the >> Mapserver tutorial but I still know nothing about Geoserver, and I am >> running out of time. I need to solve this problem by the end of this >> week >> if possible, or by the end of next week at the absolute latest. >> >> >> So, I have two questions: >> >> 1) Is there a utility I could download that can convert a Geoserver >> installation to Mapserver? >> >> -- or -- >> >> 2) I *think* (crossing fingers) that the only thing I need to do, on the >> application side, is to convert the following Javascript call... >> >> var wms = new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS("World", "geoserver/wms?service=wms", >> {layers: 'countries', bgcolor: 0x000055}); >> >> ...into its equivalent Mapserver call. There are four countries.* files >> in the geoserver repository: >> >> countries.dbf >> countries.prj >> countries.shp >> countries.shx >> >> How do I create countries.map to serve these files, and what mapserv.exe >> call should I use? >> >> >> Many thanks for any and all assistance. >> >> Justin >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mapserver-users mailing list >> mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users >> >> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/help-with-converting-Geoserver-site-to-Mapserver-tp20919019p20921592.html > Sent from the Mapserver - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/help-with-converting-Geoserver-site-to-Mapserver-tp20919019p20934362.html Sent from the Mapserver - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
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