I wonder the same, especially seeing that plugin code living on GitHub.
Think of how QGIS has become the frontend for GRASS, it could(should!)
be the frontend for MapServer.
There is definitely huge momentum in the QGIS community (I've even been
asked to attend their first QGIS conference, and followup dev meeting,
in May). I can imagine/dream of a joint MapServer/QGIS code sprint,
totally funded (as a few of the OpenLayers3 sprints were) happening
someday. Would be amazing.
-jeff
On 2015-03-18 2:50 PM, Lime, Steve D (MNIT) wrote:
I've wondered if we could/should pull the plug-in into the MapServer project
itself.
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[mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Rahkonen Jukka
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Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 3:16 AM
To: Michael Kleih; mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Is there a way to convert a QGIS layout into a
".map" file?
Hi,
There is this plugin http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/rt_mapserver_exporter/
and old documentation
http://docs.qgis.org/1.8/en/docs/user_manual/plugins/plugins_mapserver_export.html
Unfortunately the plugin makes mapfiles which were usable as-is with Mapserver
5.x but not since that. It also creates mapfiles which I do not like a lot
because it is lazy with PROJECTION blocks etc. but that is at least partly
matter of taste. But if you know how to write valid mapfiles for Mapserver v.
6.x and above then that plugin does make usable templates which can save time.
It would be nice to get that plugin up-to-date.
Other alternatives which do not help with QGIS styles but are worth having a
look: http://scribeui.org/ and http://gisinternals.com/mapmanager.html
-Jukka Rahkonen-
Michael Kleih wrote:
Hello all,
I am using Mapserver since nearly 20 years and like it a lot.
QGIS is getting better and better and it would be nice to layout a map in QGIS and then
convert it to a ".map"-file to be used with Mapserver.
Does anybody know if this is possible?
Thanks to all,
Michael
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