[mapserver-users] MapServer and shapefile

2012-10-02 Thread Fabio Brolese
Hello everybody, after a long search on GoogleI'm here to ask you if it's possible to use a shapefile as base layer. Everything I found was on exporting to shapefile or drawing objects from shapefile but nothing saying that I can use it as base layer. Can anyone help me? TIA Fabio

Re: [mapserver-users] MapServer and shapefile

2012-10-02 Thread Rahkonen Jukka
Hi, Because you talk about base layer I think that you are perhaps going to show your map in OpenLayers. If that is the case then the answer is yes and this OpenLayers example shows how it can be done. http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.12/examples/wms-untiled.html On the Mapserver

Re: [mapserver-users] MapServer and shapefile

2012-10-02 Thread Fabio Brolese
Yes, sorry, I was talking about OpenLayers. I understood and is like I did with all the layers I set pointing on PostGIS. I have also a base layer set as OpenLayers.Layer.TMS that load image tiles to show the city map. What we want to do is to change the base layer to read the city map from

Re: [mapserver-users] MapServer and shapefile

2012-10-02 Thread Rahkonen Jukka
Hi, Mapserver is not a TMS server and you must either start using OpenLayers.Layer.WMS or install some tile cache acting as TMS server in between your Mapserver and OpenLayers. Tilecache, Mapcache, Mapproxy, Geowebcache and for sure some others will all work sooner or later once you have

[mapserver-users] mapserver and the DPI parameter

2012-10-02 Thread Andrea Peri
Hi, I see some wms clients will send to the wms server a DPI parameter. AFAIK that parameter is not in the WMS standard, but I read other wms server will support it. So I like to know if the MapServer support this DPI parameter. Thx, -- - Andrea Peri . . . . . . . . . qwerty