[mapserver-users] .netCDF and MapServer

2013-01-01 Thread Chris Jackson
Hi all Happy New Year! I wondered if anyone had used MapServer at all to extract and display data from .netCDFs (SWAN model format). Thanks Chris ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org

[mapserver-users] SQL Server 2008 layer

2012-09-03 Thread Chris Jackson
Hi all Sorry for this v.basic question. Trying to load a layer from SQL 2008 R2 64bit using the msplugin_mssql2008.dll and when running shp2image it just bombs out on that layer saying neither DSN nor Server keyword supplied. Two things I can see could be the issue - accessing the plugin itself

Re: [mapserver-users] mapserver-users Digest, Vol 56, Issue 1

2012-09-03 Thread Chris Jackson
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Re: [mapserver-users] mapserver-users Digest, Vol 56, Issue 1

2012-09-03 Thread Chris Jackson
driver or is it a poorly formed query? Thanks Chris On 3 September 2012 20:27, Chris Jackson webturt...@gmail.com wrote: Fixed it in the end. PLUGIN C:\..\...\msplugin_mssql2008.dll CONNECTION server=x;uid=;pwd=xx;database=x;Integrated Security=false What is odd is I can only

Re: [mapserver-users] OGR Virtual Format and character encoding

2012-08-31 Thread Chris Jackson
- not v.UTF-8 friendly I think!) Thanks Chris On 30 August 2012 15:46, Chris Jackson webturt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I have OGR Virtual Format layer in my map file and the underlying .OVF is calling a flat MS SQL table of point data. The layer displays fine, but I am having issues

Re: [mapserver-users] OGR Virtual Format and character encoding

2012-08-31 Thread Chris Jackson
, Chris Jackson webturt...@gmail.com wrote: All One thought I did have, if the characters where html encoded in the SQL table (e.g. ü as #252;) is there anyway to get MapServer to render them correctly again in a label? I guess OGR can only deal with UTF-8 encoded characters (I am using

[mapserver-users] OGR Virtual Format and character encoding

2012-08-30 Thread Chris Jackson
Hi all I have OGR Virtual Format layer in my map file and the underlying .OVF is calling a flat MS SQL table of point data. The layer displays fine, but I am having issues with umlauts etc for one of the attribute fields. When I run the ogrinfo command on the layer, it has already messed up the

Re: [mapserver-users] OGRVRT Data Sources and SQL server

2012-05-30 Thread Chris Jackson
Hi Robert and Jeff I tried those steps (think FID is optional) and no further - more blank outputs using shp2img (ms bebugging at 5 - no errors at all, happily finds layer and draws it - apparently! - should rename my layer to snowflakes or white cats). Have run shp2img debugging - nothing

[mapserver-users] OGRVRT Data Sources and SQL server

2012-05-28 Thread Chris Jackson
Hi all Has anyone got much experience of using OGRVRT Data Sources in Windows with SQL server system DSNs? I am having an issue with system DSN connection type (windows authentication will work fine and proceses the table fine, sql authentication - get not trusted connection (both authentication

[mapserver-users] character encoding

2011-09-07 Thread Chris Jackson
Hi all I am having some issues with special characters in my application (sure I am not the first!) and wondered what the best way is to 'clean up' the data so I know it is specifically in a given format say UTF-8 or ISO. My source data was from KML - shp using ArcGIS 10 (though who knows what

[mapserver-users] Re character encoding

2011-09-07 Thread Chris Jackson
Hi Jeff I may well try that! The trouble is I have a stack of attributes in a Access db which I was joining onto the KML data. I need the complete dataset for an ArcGIS Server data service anyway so a shapefile seemed to be a good way to join it all and assist with that (will end up in SDE) and

[mapserver-users] Mapscript and wms client

2011-09-05 Thread Chris Jackson
Hi I am trying to use a remote WMS service in my mapfile and am not having any luck. I resorted to the MapServer tutorial example and still had no luck: LAYER # MODIS WMS map from JPL NAME modis_jpl TYPE RASTER OFFSITE 0 0 0 STATUS On

Re: [mapserver-users] Mapscript and wms client

2011-09-05 Thread Chris Jackson
a GetCapapabilies XML). Best Regards, Brent Fraser On 9/5/2011 3:53 PM, Chris Jackson wrote: Hi I am trying to use a remote WMS service in my mapfile and am not having any luck. I resorted to the MapServer tutorial example and still had no luck: LAYER # MODIS WMS map from JPL NAME

Re: [mapserver-users] IIS and mapfiles and also GDAL

2011-09-02 Thread Chris Jackson
TileCountX1/TileCountX TileCountY1/TileCountY YOrigintop/YOrigin /DataWindow ProjectionEPSG:900913/Projection BlockSizeX256/BlockSizeX BlockSizeY256/BlockSizeY BandsCount3/BandsCount Cache / /GDAL_WMS Best Regards, Brent Fraser On 9/2/2011 8:13 AM, Chris

[mapserver-users] Raster dataset recommendations

2011-02-25 Thread Chris Jackson
Hi all I have a largish raster dataset (2 GB) of hi resolution data points with a small geographical footprint. What would people recommend as the best way to prepare and then call data in the map file (with rendering performance in mind). It isn't going to be a basemap and the output legend

[mapserver-users] MapScript dlls?

2010-09-16 Thread Chris Jackson
Hi Does anyone know where I might find a compiled version of the MapScript dll for NTS PHP 5.3.1 (or 5.3.3) on Windows (VC9)? I am trying to use FastCGI combined with Wincache (hence NTS required). Many thanks Chris ___ mapserver-users mailing list

Re: [mapserver-users] Display performance

2010-09-03 Thread Chris Jackson
Hi Jukka Thanks for the response and the great investigative work! My log entry for drawing the layer is - [Fri Sep 03 10:01:25 2010].658000 msDrawMap(): Layer 1 (meanspringpeakflow), 24.500s. :o( I do wonder if my Mapfile layer definition is just v.poor (admittedly no expert!) so have taken an

Re: [mapserver-users] Display performance

2010-09-03 Thread Chris Jackson
Jukka Thank you for the code I will give it a go. I guess I will dust off the field calculator in ArcMap and see if that improves things somewhat, I guess that is a similar overhead when classifying a raster by pixel value (not sure how to fix that). So if I understand you right then I would

Re: [mapserver-users] Display performance

2010-09-03 Thread Chris Jackson
the classes inside your layer by order of occurences, i.e. the most common classes first, and the least common ones last. -- thomas On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:54, Chris Jackson webturt...@gmail.com wrote: Jukka Thank you for the code I will give it a go. I guess I will dust off

[mapserver-users] Display performance

2010-09-02 Thread Chris Jackson
Hi I wondered if anyone knew if displaying a 50,000 polygon dataset would be significantly faster if called from a database rather than a spatially indexed shapefile, or is it a similar overhead for both. Thanks Chris ___ mapserver-users mailing list

Re: [mapserver-users] Display performance

2010-09-02 Thread Chris Jackson
(DNR) steve.l...@state.mn.uswrote: That’s not that big a dataset. Probably faster from a local shapefile. Steve *From:* mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Chris Jackson *Sent:* Thursday, September 02, 2010 2:29 PM

Re: [mapserver-users] Display performance

2010-09-02 Thread Chris Jackson
processing trick (admittedly I have done minimal work bar a spatial index). Thanks for the swift response. Chris On 2 September 2010 21:07, P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Chris Jackson webturt...@gmail.com wrote: Steve That saves some work, but how long

Re: [mapserver-users] Display performance

2010-09-02 Thread Chris Jackson
Steve I don't have postgis, hence the fishing around for answers from helpful people like yourself! You are right about playing around with generalisations, unfortunately the colouring is very specific and needs to match other GIS outputs, so will have to still 'look' right - something I will

Re: [mapserver-users] Feature select performance

2010-08-25 Thread Chris Jackson
file. Anyway, it’s what you do with results afterwards that matters and that’s probably specific to your application. I’ve used query files to persist selected features over many map draws successfully on modest (50,000 feature) sized shapefiles. Steve *From:* Chris Jackson

[mapserver-users] Feature select performance

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Jackson
Hi all I have rigged up a webGIS app (P.Mapper framework) where one of the underlying datasets is a model grid (many thousand cells) in a shapefile. The data displays nice and quick when just viewing, but if I allow the user to select say 5000 cells it is very (extremely) slow to redraw with the

Re: [mapserver-users] Feature select performance

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Jackson
...@lists.osgeo.org [ mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Chris Jackson [ webturt...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 3:19 AM To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [mapserver-users] Feature select performance Hi all I have rigged up a webGIS app (P.Mapper