Re: [mapserver-users] how do you unsubscribe from this list

2008-09-03 Thread Kristian Thy
On Wed, Sep 03, Pete Kennedy wrote: anyone know? Have you tried looking at the link at the bottom of each and every mail you receive from the list? \\kristian -- ... et nemo ex vobis interrogat me: »Quo vadis?« ___ mapserver-users mailing list

Re: [mapserver-users] confused about pulling data from postgis

2008-07-21 Thread Kristian Thy
On Mon, Jul 21, orkun wrote: In addition to wkb_geometry, I also want to get ogc_fid using querybypoint. I am using this line in my map file. I am getting wkb_geometry but not ogc_fid DATA wkb_geometry FROM (select ogc_fid,wkb_geometry,cat from sheydene2) as foo using unique ogc_fid

Re: [mapserver-users] queryByPoint + PostGIS layers + USING statement

2008-07-21 Thread Kristian Thy
On Mon, Jul 21, Stefan Schwarzer wrote: My layer parameters look a bit like this: DATA 'the_geom FROM ( SELECT FROM xxx LEFT JOIN WHERE xxx) AS foo USING UNIQUE uid USING srid=4326) ' You have an extra ) at the end. But nevertheless, mapserver doesn't like it... If

Re: [mapserver-users] COLOR can take an expression?

2008-05-17 Thread Kristian Thy
On Fri, May 16, Tom Huras wrote: I want to assign a color to some features from a database based on a field. The full range of values is large, so I don't want to code a CLASS for each value. Instead I'd like to use an expression for the color. For doing stuff like this, I use mako

Re: [mapserver-users] testing mapserver large files rendering improvements

2008-05-15 Thread Kristian Thy
On Thu, May 15, Paul Ramsey wrote: I've been thinking about auto-building qix files... it would fix this problem and also fix the problem of the shape file that gets updated and out-of-synch with its index file. Seeing that this would probably lead to (slightly) decreased performance since

Re: [mapserver-users] To WFS, WMS or to WCS

2008-05-13 Thread Kristian Thy
On Tue, May 13, Sarel Coetzer wrote: Is there anywhere a brief explanation of the deferent types of map services such as WFS, WMS and WCS. WIYF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Map_Service http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Feature_Service http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Coverage_Service

Re: [MAPSERVER-USERS] ASCII - UTF-8 convert problems for importing (GIS) data (DBF standard encoding?)

2008-05-02 Thread Kristian Thy
On Fri, Apr 25, Stefan Schwarzer wrote: But: is there anyway to specify the encoding for DBF files? According to this http://www.clicketyclick.dk/databases/xbase/format/dbf.html (which is the closest I could come to an official DBF spec), all records in the DBF file format are in

Re: [mapserver-users] multiple tiffs in one layer

2008-04-28 Thread Kristian Thy
On Mon, Apr 28, Kyle Wilcox wrote: Each geotiff will need to be a layer. You can use the GROUP tag inside each of the layers to display them together. Attila Berényi wrote: Dear List, I'd like to know that is it possible to display separate geotiffs on one layer? Now I'm able to

Re: [mapserver-users] Large scale PDF output on Windows

2008-04-26 Thread Kristian Thy
On Fri, Apr 25, Brent Fraser wrote: If there's enough interest, I'd be willing to contribute the code changes he made if there's a Mapserver developer/committer willing to review, upgrade them to v5,and test (and it may require an RFC as there was a map file addition to

Re: [mapserver-users] Problem creating WMS

2008-03-26 Thread Kristian Thy
On Wed, Mar 26, Milo van der Linden wrote: svGIS will return text/html only when the WMS server returns a message or error. The GetCapabilities is parsed correctly, but when the GetMap is triggered, it occasionally returns text/html on error. The best thing to do is copy the request string

Re: [MAPSERVER-USERS] image in an output

2008-03-23 Thread Kristian Thy
On Sat, Mar 22, nickthegreek- wrote: fist in my output i try to insert in mapfile a image so as to display a compass.. what i do is to try to put in mapfile a layer which shows only this image, the compass... i haven't tried that up now..any help would be great (what exactly to write in the

Re: [mapserver-users] Linux installation

2008-03-06 Thread Kristian Thy
On Thu, Mar 06, Hans Castorp wrote: Is there any tutorial or manual explaining how to install mapserver 5 w/postgis over Linux?? I did a cookbook recipe for Ubuntu a few months ago: http://quovadis.dk/index.cgi/i_can_has_gis%3A2007-10-20%3Ageo%2Clinux%2Cserver%2Cubuntu \\kristian -- ... et