[mapserver-users] Starting with TIGER Line Data and MapServer

2009-11-03 Thread Monali Lodha
Hi, We are working on displaying the TIGER Data using MapServer. This is our first time with MapServer, and we would appreciate your help in the following areas: 1. We could run the Itasca Demo Application. However, we could not integrate our shapefiles with the sample Mapfile. We have read the

Re: [mapserver-users] Starting with TIGER Line Data and MapServer

2009-11-03 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Monali Lodha wrote: Hi, We are working on displaying the TIGER Data using MapServer. This is our first time with MapServer, and we would appreciate your help in the following areas: 1. We could run the Itasca Demo Application. However, we could not integrate our shapefiles with the sample

Re: [mapserver-users] Starting with TIGER Line Data and MapServer

2009-11-03 Thread Dan Little
: [mapserver-users] Starting with TIGER Line Data and MapServer Hi, We are working on displaying the TIGER Data using MapServer. This is our first time with MapServer, and we would appreciate your help in the following areas: 1. We could run the Itasca Demo Application. However, we could

Re: [mapserver-users] Starting with TIGER Line Data and MapServer

2009-11-03 Thread Monali Lodha
Thanks Stephen and Dan! @Stephen The recent Tiger Shapefiles come with .prj files and do have a projection. Could there be a different issue then? @Dan Regarding #1 Were all of your shapes in the same projection as the Itasca demo? If not, their coordinates may have been far outside of the

RE: [mapserver-users] Starting with TIGER Line Data and MapServer

2009-11-03 Thread Fawcett, David
: [mapserver-users] Starting with TIGER Line Data and MapServer Thanks Stephen and Dan! @Stephen The recent Tiger Shapefiles come with .prj files and do have a projection. Could there be a different issue then? @Dan Regarding #1 Were all of your shapes in the same projection as the Itasca demo

Re: [mapserver-users] Starting with TIGER Line Data and MapServer

2009-11-03 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Monali Lodha wrote: Thanks Stephen and Dan! @Stephen The recent Tiger Shapefiles come with .prj files and do have a projection. Could there be a different issue then? Mapserver does NOT look at the *.prj file. You have to do that yourself and set the PROJECTION ... END blocks appropriately