Re: [mapserver-users] Just starting out...

2008-11-10 Thread tuckeratwork
I'm sorry to reply to this - my subscription hadn't been accepted and the posting was rejected. I'm hoping that a reply will get through. I'm copying the entire posting only because it was originally rejected. === tuckeratwork wrote: > > I'm ju

Re: [mapserver-users] Just starting out...

2008-11-10 Thread tuckeratwork
> > What information do you have now defining the regions for the cutouts? Are > > you expecting to need to manually define polygons for these by digitizing? First, wow - I'm getting answers from the source! I'm sorry to bother you with such trivial questions. Yes, I expect to write a quick d

Re: [mapserver-users] Just starting out...

2008-11-10 Thread Frank Warmerdam
tuckeratwork wrote: What information do you have now defining the regions for the cutouts? Are you expecting to need to manually define polygons for these by digitizing? First, wow - I'm getting answers from the source! I'm sorry to bother you with such trivial questions.

Re: [mapserver-users] Just starting out...

2008-11-10 Thread Frank Warmerdam
tuckeratwork wrote: 2. Can I define non-rectangular boundaries in the source data including cutouts? Will MapServer quilt the other raster data to those boundaries and inside the cutouts? Tucker, What information do you have now defining the regions for the cutouts? Are you expecting to need

Re: [mapserver-users] Just starting out...

2008-11-10 Thread Roger André
Hi Tucker, My experience using the techniques that Frank's described below ("burn" away areas of non-interest using gdal_rasterize, then layer separate raster layers in Mapserver) has been very good. The one additional piece that I have used is TileCache, so that I can generate PNG tiles for disp

Re: [mapserver-users] Just starting out...

2008-11-11 Thread tuckeratwork
Closer investigation of the GeoTiff files produced by UKHO shows that although the cut out areas are white, they are all drawn with a different pixel index. That makes the whole job pretty simple to pull out the chart data. Now I'm fighting to get the "MapServer Demo" from the New User's documen