Thanks Stefan for this wonderful introduction, it's nice to hear of
positive experiences to give us all more motivation to continue to
helping to improve MapServer! Welcome to both you and Iliya to the
community. Keep us posted on your activities!
Oh, once your MapServer backend is plugged-in be sure to add your
weather site to the MapServer gallery, so we can help new users see what
can be done...
https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki/MapServer-Site-Gallery
Hello to Finland from the east coast of Canada!
-jeff
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Jeff McKenna
GatewayGeo: Developers of MS4W, MapServer Consulting and Training
co-founder of FOSS4G
http://gatewaygeo.com/
On 2021-03-14 7:43 a.m., Stefan Gofferje wrote:
Hello all!
I just wanted to quickly introduce myself. I just started tinkering with
mapserver to see if I can make it work as a new backend for my weather
website. I'm running www.saakeskus.fi as a free website for stormchasers
in Finland since 2007. At the moment, it's tons of pre-rendered maps
which are done with GrADS in a Joomla website. A while ago I started
reworking the web part based on Leaflet and and started writing new map
creation scripts in bash with GDAL. That works pretty nicely but results
in one huge mapfile for each parameter at each time...
And then I stumbled over mapserver... :).
I have a test server running on docker on my home server at the moment
and I'm making (I think) pretty good progress understanding how it
works. I don't really know a lot about GIS stuff but I got my first
working WMS maps from grib files out of it after about one and a half
day of tinkering.
On the old version of my website, I published almost all my GrADS
scripts because there wasn't much information on the web on how to do
nice weather maps with GrADS when I started. If I can make mapserver
work for me, I'm planning to do the same with mapserver map files.
Looking forward to the community!
Have a beautiful Sunday!
Stefan
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