Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] How to generate 3d image like GPS device?

2008-02-27 Thread Bob Basques
Stephen, Some things to think about for and end product: * A parameter is needed to get a directional bearing, which way, direction is the user looking (in decimal deg?) * A parameter (may be) is needed to indicate azimuth or declination of the view, up/down (in decimal deg?) * A

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] AGG and legends

2008-02-06 Thread Bob Basques
343275.62326869805mapsize=781 722mode=legend Which is a 24 bit png with transparent background (no IE 6 happy) bobb Bob Basques GIS Systems Developer City of Saint Paul, MN GISmo Powered by GeoMOOSE "Hunter, David - St. Louis Park, MN" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my legend section:LEG

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Feedback request for a Modified GeoMoose client.

2008-02-06 Thread Bob Basques
All, Looking for comments on the following Flash video related to possible future directions of GeoMoose development. Beware, this is a 15 meg file, but it does stream pretty well. http://pwultra5.ci.stpaul.mn.us/cp_tiles/temp/gismo/gismo3_files/gismo3.swf I did this video quite a while back,

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Googlish MapFile test site update.

2008-01-28 Thread Bob Basques
All, I got a couple of reports that some of the layers were being authenticated on the outside. I think I have them all exposed now, so they should all be viewable for those that were interested in comparing the AGG 24bit PNG and GD 8bit PNG outputs which both have transparent backgrounds

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Googlish MapFile V0.02 - additional files

2008-01-25 Thread Bob Basques
I'm using, which are questionable as far as reuse/licensing goes. bobb Bob Basques GIS Systems Developer City of Saint Paul, MN GISmo Powered by GeoMOOSE Jim Dahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I apologize if I made a double post, I have not replied on this list befo=re so I=20am learning.Bob

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Map file with 35,000+ Lines... management issue

2008-01-23 Thread Bob Basques
is dynamic request structure in place. bobb Bob Basques GIS Systems Developer City of Saint Paul, MN GISmo Powered by GeoMOOSE riteshambastha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Readers, I have developed a map file with more than 35,000 Lines. Its size will growby double/triple in next few mont

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Map file with 35,000+ Lines... management issue

2008-01-23 Thread Bob Basques
for this too that I need to review first as well. But in the interest of getting the MAPFILE smaller and more manageable . . . . :c) bobb Bob Basques GIS Systems Developer City of Saint Paul, MN GISmo Powered by GeoMOOSE Espen Isaksen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks! Don't know how I

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Map file with 35,000+ Lines... management issue

2008-01-23 Thread Bob Basques
I'm hoping that there will be some discussion to come out of this Thread related to developing some different methods for applying styles that may end up being easier to maintain as well as easier to teach to others. bobb Bob Basques GIS Systems Developer City of Saint Paul, MN GISm

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS]

2008-01-23 Thread Bob Basques
All, A new version of the Googlish MapFile is available for Download. It's essentially the same as the previous version, but has the completed thresholding (as far as the local dataset allows for anyway). Some more comments added throughout as well.

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Googlish MapFile V0.02

2008-01-23 Thread Bob Basques
Dang it!, forgot the Subject: All, A new version of the Googlish MapFile is available for Download. It's essentially the same as the previous version, but has the completed thresholding (as far as the local dataset allows for anyway). Some more comments added

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Googlish MapFile V0,01 released (cleaner posting?)

2008-01-17 Thread Bob Basques
All, I've gotten a couple of questions about the fonts and symbol sets (Which I knew would happen :c), I'm in the process of getting permissions to redistribute what I have, or get some to include in the distribution, it would be good to have some variety available to, so I may find a few

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Googlish MapFile V0,01 released

2008-01-16 Thread Bob Basques
paul.mn.us/gis/gismo_public/html/index.html (this is the GD version, until I figure out how to get Alpha transparency to work in IE.) Have fun bobb Bob Basques GIS Systems Developer City of Saint Paul, MN GISmo Powered by GeoMOOSE

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Googlish MapFile V0,01 released (cleaner posting?)

2008-01-16 Thread Bob Basques
Sorry for this second posting, just noticed that my postings aren't very nicely formatted to the list. Just trying to see if I can fix them. - All, I posted a version (unfinished) on the GeoMoose Website. http://www.geomoose.org/moose/ Just do a search for googlish

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Googlish Mapfile (Png24 vs Png8 for AGG output)

2008-01-14 Thread Bob Basques
as straight PNG for now in my production interfaces, but the PNG24 looks a heck of a lot better. Any ideas? bobb Bob Basques GIS Systems Developer City of Saint Paul, MN GISmo Powered by GeoMOOSE

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Googlish Mapfile

2008-01-11 Thread Bob Basques
All, I'm getting close to publishing the MAPFILE I've been working on. The results to date can be seen here: http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us/gis/gismo_public/html/?mapbook=/datasets/CONFIGS/SAINT_PAUL/PUBLIC_WORKS/MAPBOOKS/TS/gismo3_test_public.xml# First off, thanks to those that answered the

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Callout Issue

2008-01-09 Thread Bob Basques
Ritesh, GeoMoose has a Popup capability as well, although the docs are bit lacking right now. I'm working on them as time permits. bobb Stephen Woodbridge wrote: riteshambastha wrote: Dear Readers, Please let us know how to place a callout describing a marked point in the map. The

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] raster and vector group

2008-01-08 Thread Bob Basques
try swapping the order of the data sources/layers in the mapfile around. bobb GISmo Powered by GeoMOOSE Steve Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --0-382631810-1199829167=:44230Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bitI am trying to combine raster and

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Funky Legend Output

2008-01-04 Thread Bob Basques
I'm getting a funky Symbol output in a raster legend. see: http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us/datasets/SHP/METC/TLG/CENTERLINES_TLG/tlg_shields_googlish_agg_public.map-4.99-pwcs-01?mapext=561102.4457165183%20133820.84525871728%20583263.0777287454%20149106.64483987846mapsize=880%20607mode=legend I'll

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] funky legend

2008-01-04 Thread Bob Basques
All, Note, the last Highway Shield in the Legend output is generated from a carbon copy of the first CLASS in the listing below but at the line drawing stage. I was trying to move the Legend generation stuff into it's own LAYER as list below, but the Symbols don't want to cooperate for some

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] funky legend

2008-01-04 Thread Bob Basques
All, I'm so embarrassed. figured it out for myself. Needed to change the Shield symbol layer to ANNOTATION from LINE Just needed a separate layer for the Symbol Points Thanks The previous link show the corrected Symbols now. bobb Bob Basques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a MIME

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] New MapServer Demo (feedback requested)

2008-01-03 Thread Bob Basques
Steve ( and others, sorry, long one, it's all your own faults though ), I'm going along with the ideas that MapServer demos should be MapServer specific. All the replies seem to point to setting up demos to be implemented after the installation has been done. Although one could argue that

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] question about AGG

2007-12-31 Thread Bob Basques
All, Is the general consensus that all MapServers should move to AGG output, or is this considered more of an optional output at this time? I mean, will it at some point become the default output for MapServer? I'm asking mostly based on the differences in the mapfiles required between the

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Google-ish cartography.

2007-12-31 Thread Bob Basques
All, I'm making good progress on my Google-ish cartography mapfile creation, see the attached links. I will be publishing it to the GeoMoose site as a mapfile once it's ready. It should be portable to use against the Census tiger centerlines as well, actually it should be fairly easy to apply

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Zoom to location by name or other parameter using cgi mapserv

2007-12-22 Thread Bob Basques
Ben (and Richard), I know I've been sounding like a broken record on the list lately with regard to GeoMoose, but . . . :c) In one of the Demo datasets that is included with the Windows (MS4W) version of GeoMoose, there is a selection and highlighting example already set up for use with

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] New to Mapserver

2007-12-19 Thread Bob Basques
David, You asked a couple of questions here. One was the reuse of distributed mapping with Google Maps, a way of doing this is with a WMS overlay. Mapserver can generate this type of map image, which can be used in a number of opensource client frame works besides Google maps. It can be

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Google-ish Cartography

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Basques
I can send you the mapfile http://motte.yi.org/~tom/maps/utah.html (the computer is off on european nightime) thomas On Dec 5, 2007 8:04 PM, Bob Basques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Anyone have a pointer to a Google-ish looking Mapfile. I would like to play around with this a bit

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Google-ish Cartography

2007-12-05 Thread Bob Basques
All, Anyone have a pointer to a Google-ish looking Mapfile. I would like to play around with this a bit. Thanks bobb

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Announcement - GeoMOOSE 1.0.0 Mapserver client framework for local government

2007-10-08 Thread Bob Basques
MapServer users, We would like to share a relatively new open source project designed around use cases for local government needs. The open source project development team is proud to announce GeoMOOSE 1.0.0 release. For more information, to download the source code or check out the gallery,

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] adding support for user authentication within Mapserver for GetCapablities and GetMap

2007-09-01 Thread Bob Basques
Hmm, this look interesting, but it the whole of the 52north product needed for the security features? Thanks bobb Flavio Hendry wrote: Ed, John Co. might have a look at: http://52north.org/index.php?option=com_contenttask=blogcategoryid=36Itemid=120 Mit freundlichem Gruss / Best Regards

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] adding support for user authentication within Mapserver for GetCapablities and GetMap

2007-09-01 Thread Bob Basques
Flavio, Ahh, never mind that previous question, figured it out for myself. bobb Flavio Hendry wrote: Ed, John Co. might have a look at: http://52north.org/index.php?option=com_contenttask=blogcategoryid=36Itemid=120 Mit freundlichem Gruss / Best Regards Flavio Hendry

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] adding support for user authentication within Mapserver for GetCapablities and GetMap

2007-09-01 Thread Bob Basques
All, Ok, upon closer scrutiny, this is about what I was thinking about too as far as a Ticketing system being used for authentication. Geez, it's in java though and uses Tomcat . . . . I've had way too many problems with this combination in the past especially related to other

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] adding support for user authentication within Mapserver for GetCapablities and GetMap

2007-08-31 Thread Bob Basques
All, I've run into the same design problems as Ed is describing here as well. There just doesn't seem to be an easy way to add in Authentication to any of the spatial standards that have been set up. I'm really having a hard time trying to decide just how to add authentication. I also

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] question about mapsever uptimes

2007-08-15 Thread Bob Basques
All, Just doing some system cleaning and discovered we've had a MapServer Process up continuously for 384 days (and counting). Average Mapserver hits per day are, 8200 across a two node, load balanced system. That's averaging over a year, so the current numbers are really higher nearing 10k per

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] dataset extents from MapServer CGI

2007-07-19 Thread Bob Basques
All, Is there any way to get a dataset extents from MapServer CGI directly (no Mapscript)? Thanks bobb

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] dataset extents from MapServer CGI

2007-07-19 Thread Bob Basques
/MapScript myself if it's not plausible to include in MapServer. bobb Frank Warmerdam wrote: Jan Hartmann wrote: I second that question. If not, could it be implemented? Very useful feature Jan Bob Basques wrote: All, Is there any way to get a dataset extents from MapServer CGI directly

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Draft Questionaire: MapServer Mapping Frameworks (comment please)

2007-06-18 Thread Bob Basques
Robert, I don't have a specific name for this capability, but the ability to handle separate layers individually, via separate MAPFILEs, as overlays. I have a Client Framework listing that I will add to you inventory, that allows the use of multiple MAPFILEs on the Server (same Domain [So

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Arbitrary text in the legends.

2007-06-06 Thread Bob Basques
All, In order to add some arbitrary text to a Legend image output, do I need to add in a dummy layer to display this sort of thing? I would like to add some Notes for specific layers to the Legend outputs. bobb

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Arbitrary text in the legends.

2007-06-06 Thread Bob Basques
All, In order to add some arbitrary text to a Legend image output, do I need to add in a dummy layer to display this sort of thing? I would like to add some Notes for specific layers to the Legend outputs. bobb

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] imagemap examples

2007-06-01 Thread Bob Basques
David, If you want something up and running fairly quickly, you should take a look at GeoMoose. It makes this type of integration very easy (considering the pieces involved). The interface is based on this type of architecture, where any layer can have a corrosponding imagemap (XML in

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] nquery (can a NOT condition be used for drawing?)

2007-03-17 Thread Bob Basques
All, Can a nquery draw based on a NOT condition? Basically what I want to do is a draw (fill) all polygons in the view, except for the NQUERY results. How would something like that look in the MapFILE? Thanks bobb

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Fwd: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Vertor PDF as data source for mapserver

2007-03-12 Thread Bob Basques
You may need to convert the DWG data with a utility of some sort. I use AutoCAD MAP for such conversions for example. There are likely others out on the net somewhere that will do the conversion for you as well. Some better than others depending on what type of elements they are. bobb

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Annotation and positioning referenced from the edges (like Scale POSITION Otption)

2007-02-20 Thread Bob Basques
FEATURE POINTS 0 0 END END CLASS STYLE SYMBOL moose_logo_90x42 COLOR 0 0 0 OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0 END END END* END Bob Basques wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Annotation and positioning referenced from the edges (like Scale POSITION

2007-02-20 Thread Bob Basques
Steve Lime wrote: Annotation implies drawing text of some sort. Without that I bet the code is bailing since there isn't a label object defined nor a labelitem or text element. Off the top of my head there are a couple of work arounds to try: Got it working, changing the ANNOTATION to POINT

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] REGEX in Map file

2007-02-08 Thread Bob Basques
All, I think I asked this before, but danged if I can find the answer (or even the question) in the archives. Can I change a CLASSITEM result from I-94 to I94 with a REGEX in the Mapfile? If so, how? I originally accomplished this by adding another Column to the data, but I have this

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Random Color (number) generation in MapSever for thematic colorizing.

2007-02-08 Thread Bob Basques
All, I have a set of seven colored defined that I would like to apply to a Polygon layer to randomly color the fills of the polygons. Simply to give each polygon a separate color when viewed side by side. I'm trying to color in City Polygon shapes with a Random color. Anyone know of a way

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] How to Construct Railroad Style lines?

2006-12-29 Thread Bob Basques
Bill, Here's how we do it. Found it in one of the old posts from this list somewhere I think originally. You should be able to tweak the settings more to your liking too. LAYER NAME 'railroads' DATA 'SURVEY/2003_12/RAILROAD/railroads' GROUP 'planimetrics_lines' STATUS DEFAULT

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] How to Construct Railroad Style lines?

2006-12-29 Thread Bob Basques
Oh, no, now you got me going . . . You could use the same process of stacking things by using two lines on top of one another, place a white line (we use white as a Transparent color here by default) on top of a slightly wider line of a different color, this will in effect give you two side

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] a mapserver framework for flexibility

2006-12-08 Thread Bob Basques
Neil, Can you describe more of the authentication process you would like to use. Are you planning on implementing the Authentication in the Mambo environment? I have a new project that might fit your bill. But alas there's not much documentation put together for it yet. The layer aspects

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Stumped

2006-11-01 Thread Bob Basques
Works from here. Richard Greenwood wrote: On 11/1/06, Mark Peil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello there. I am brand new to Map Server. I have my map up and running: http://maps.cityofpt.us but I am having difficulties trying to "zoom to" a feature, in this

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Limiting the viewable extent...

2006-10-31 Thread Bob Basques
All, One method you might try, would be to use the new include mechanisms in the MAPFILES and have a separate MapFile header for each client. You need to set the Extents somewhere anyway, just keep a separate header file and include the LAYER defs from a separate central file. Although,

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Am I correct in assuming this won't work? (map_web_template=select_html)

2006-10-13 Thread Bob Basques
All, I'm trying to generate a different LEGEND (then specified in the MapFILE) by passing a CGI request to MapSever with a MAPFILE parameter change: map_web_template=select.html (Am I correct in assuming that the map_legend_template=something else would react the same way?) This doesn't

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] - SOLUTION (sort of) Am I correct in assuming this won't work? (map_web_template=select_html)

2006-10-13 Thread Bob Basques
. H. bobb Bob Basques wrote: All, I'm trying to generate a different LEGEND (then specified in the MapFILE) by passing a CGI request to MapSever with a MAPFILE parameter change: map_web_template=select.html (Am I correct in assuming that the map_legend_template=something else would

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] WMS Javascript Client

2006-09-01 Thread Bob Basques
Does it need to be WMS? We've got something coming out in the near future, but it operates just about the same with a separate call for each layer, although layers can be separated and/or combined if needed with no problem. It doesn't work with WMS services (yet) though. bobb Léveillé

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] RE : WMS Javascript Client

2006-09-01 Thread Bob Basques
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[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Can the creation date of a SHP file be retrieved via a MAPSERVER call?

2006-08-31 Thread Bob Basques
All, Can the creation date of a SHP file be retrieved via a MAPSERVER call? I would like to place a Date related to the file creation time at the bottom of a template output. Is this something that's possible with a CGI call? If so, how is it done? in the Template, the Map file or both?

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Can the creation date of a SHP file be retrieved via a MAPSERVER call?

2006-08-31 Thread Bob Basques
Frank Warmerdam wrote: Bob Basques wrote: All, Can the creation date of a SHP file be retrieved via a MAPSERVER call? Bob, No mechanism exists to get at this from a CGI or mapscript point of view. I thought about that, I also thought about using Metadata in the MapFile, IT just

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Can the creation date of a SHP file be retrieved via a MAPSERVER call?

2006-08-31 Thread Bob Basques
=my_shapefile.shp -- On 8/31/06, Bob Basques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Warmerdam wrote: Bob Basques wrote: All, Can the creation date of a SHP file be retrieved via a MAPSERVER call? Bob, No mechanism exists to get at this from a CGI or mapscript point of view

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Raster Data Download

2006-08-23 Thread Bob Basques
Ryan Ollerenshaw wrote: Does anyone know of a good way to allow users to download raster datasets from a Mapserver? I have tried using WCS requests but for large data areas at high resolutions the requests just take to long. Thanks, -Ryan Not that this doesn't specifically relate to

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Website thought, an map gallery?

2006-08-04 Thread Bob Basques
Steve, Great idea. I think just implementing an input form to add a link would suffice, where the owners could upload a screen capture (or captures). Or where you thinking about something more? bobb Steve Lime wrote: Hi folks: I've been wondering if we shouldn't start up a new type of

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Website thought, an map gallery?

2006-08-04 Thread Bob Basques
, while some of these items may very well originate from MapServer as well. bobb Steve Bob Basques [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/4/2006 1:36:34 PM Steve, Great idea. I think just implementing an input form to add a link would suffice, where the owners could upload a screen capture

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] SDF (AutoDESK) file format.

2006-07-11 Thread Bob Basques
All, Is there a Mapserver data Reader for this file type? Thanks bobb

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Ok, this might sound weird, but (different MAXSCALEs)

2006-06-08 Thread Bob Basques
All, Does it make any sense to have a different MAXSCALE seeting for Raster images vs Imagemaping (Templated output? bobb

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] raster symbols.

2006-06-08 Thread Bob Basques
All, I've added my very first set of raster symbols to a layer. The symbols are PNGs with a transparent Background. While the resulting image has a nice transparent background overall, I noticed that the drawing of the Symbols where they overlap, that the original BBOX of the symbol graphic

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] [Fwd: Re: WFS gurus . . . .]

2006-06-06 Thread Bob Basques
- From: Bob Basques [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 05-Jun-06 11:29 To: Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] Cc: Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: WFS gurus . . . .] Ok, last private one . . . Is would be nice to get options for our neighboring Counties as well

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] [Fwd: Re: WFS gurus . . . .]

2006-06-06 Thread Bob Basques
Frank, This is exactly what we we're looking for. I guess we just needed to dig far enough to get our terminology right to ask the question(s) Thanks bobb Frank Warmerdam wrote: Bob Basques wrote: All, Some progress, We've managed to add to the PROJ4 EPSG list and verified

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] WFS gurus . . . .

2006-06-05 Thread Bob Basques
All, I'm trying to get a WFS output in a local coordinate system. Everything works just fine with a EPSG code, but our coordinate system is not in the list. Do we need to add it in in more than one location? We're using a few extensions that all seem to have their own version of a EPSG

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] [Fwd: Re: WFS gurus . . . .]

2006-06-05 Thread Bob Basques
-Original Message- From: UMN MapServer Users List=20 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Basques Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 10:38 AM To: MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] [Fwd: Re: WFS gurus . . . .] =20 =20 Ok, we'll try that. =20 Any rule-of-thumb

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] [Fwd: Re: WFS gurus . . . .]

2006-06-05 Thread Bob Basques
Bob Basques wrote: Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote: I suppose I should add that we're trying to use a Minnesota County (Ramsey) Coordinate system for the WFS output. bobb Good question. What's your actual projection definition? I believe this works (been a while though since

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] SRS setting for a non-EPSG coordinate system.

2006-06-02 Thread Bob Basques
All, Is there a way to get an arbitrary coordinate system output from Mapserver WFS (non-EPSG) using the same coordinate in the call to mapserver? I can get the Capabilities request to show the correct coordinate BBOX numbers, but I still need to send in a UTM box to retrieve by. How many

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Symbol file reader.

2006-04-24 Thread Bob Basques
All, does anyone know of a generic Symbol file reader? Something that would build a image, or images, from a symbol file? I want to set up something for maintaining a symbol file by many individuals, is there something out there already like this? I would prefer a CGI version of

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Question about WFS.

2006-03-22 Thread Bob Basques
Seems like a simple idea, but . . . All, We're moving some layers to WFS for some testing of clients. One question I have is can a Label layer as well as a Geometry layer be set up as two seperate WFS layer request from the same dataset. It seems like this is possible, but wondering about

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Using mapsize in variable substitution

2006-03-07 Thread Bob Basques
Ian, Hmmm, I was told you couldn't do this when I asked about the same thing a couple of months ago. I had asked about a way to label arbitrarily just like inserting a SCALE in the lower Right corner, but there didn't seem to be a way to do it at the time. I recall putting in a bug I

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] UMN Mapserver on mobile devices

2006-02-23 Thread Bob Basques
Puneet Kishor wrote: Rainer Spittel wrote: Hi there, It just came in my mind: I wonder if is might be possible to setup a UMN Mapserver environment on a mobile/handheld device (cellphone, PocketPC etc.)? So the MapServer runs on the PocketPC including core geospatial datasets (contours

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Lining up tiles and styling

2006-02-21 Thread Bob Basques
Ed, If you want to get into the coding aspect of things. The trick is to grab an image bigger than the desired tile size and clip it back with some other piece of middle ware to the desired tile size. Another route to go, is to build a rather large tile, and then clip it back to smaller

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Visualizing Point Data

2006-02-06 Thread Bob Basques
Bill, The census site I sent you is actually doing this type of overlay right now. It's all MapServer/Mapscript based. Let me know if you have any questions. The overlays are drawn on the fly from the Census BlockGroup data. It's got quite a bit of indexing behind the scenes that makes it

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Can a super-script formatting be applied to a TT font?

2006-01-27 Thread Bob Basques
All, Is there a method for applying Superscript to a TT font character in a mapfile? thanks bobb

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] positioning an arbitrary feature . . .

2006-01-27 Thread Bob Basques
All, how can I position a feature like I can with a ScaleBar (POSITION LL). I have an interface that doesn't use a static mapsize. The Scalebar works great, but how can I postion abstract annotation in the same way, by pushing things to the corners or edges (with the POSITION parameter)

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] DECORATION layer definition (was: positioning an arbitrary feature . . .)

2006-01-27 Thread Bob Basques
://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1547 -Steve W. Bob Basques wrote: All, how can I position a feature like I can with a ScaleBar (POSITION LL). I have an interface that doesn't use a static mapsize. The Scalebar works great, but how can I postion abstract annotation in the same way

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Example of placing a PNG symbol in a map.

2006-01-26 Thread Bob Basques
All, Can someone send me an example Mapfile entry for placing a PNG image at a particular location in a MapServer Layer? I need to add in a Logo to a map in the Lower Left Corner, is there something similar to a Scalebar positioning (LL) parameter for example? thanks bobb

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] New to the List

2006-01-23 Thread Bob Basques
Tomasz, First off, what is DHW , I get a couple of hit in GOOGLE about it concerning Housing and Health Welfare. But that's it. What type of data is it that you are trying to render? bobb Tomasz Adamczewski wrote: Dear Friends, My name is Tomasz Adamczewski, I am an Assistant Lecturer

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] New to the List

2006-01-23 Thread Bob Basques
Depending on the type of data and how you want to visualize it, I've found MapServer to be an excellent tool. If designed correctly inside of a larger system, it's quite capable of operating as the main integration piece as far as visualization of the data.  Adding in other services to the

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Source for TrueType font for Road Signs.

2006-01-20 Thread Bob Basques
I found this one too, but I'm actually looking for these types of signs for an Inventory/Maintenance layer: http://members.aol.com/rcmoeur/w1.html Looks like I may need to make my own set. bobb Flavio Hendry wrote: Hi Bob Anyone know of a pointer to a TT font for Road Signs?

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Data Discovery . . .

2006-01-20 Thread Bob Basques
All, Is there any way to query MapServer CGI about what scale a layer turns on/off for display? Othere than a blank image, is there a method to ask mapServer when a layer is visible (based on scale). we haven't done any of the WMS stuff yet (It's coming, but we're not there yet), I was

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Source for TrueType font for Road Signs.

2006-01-19 Thread Bob Basques
All, Anyone know of a pointer to a TT font for Road Signs? Warning, Informational, Regulatory. Failing that, how about a pointer to a Symbol set that I can possibly convert to a TT font. Thanks bobb

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Radians for rotation

2006-01-11 Thread Bob Basques
All, Can radians be used for rotation for symbol rotation? bobb

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] About PNG output. Uncompressed PNG.

2006-01-10 Thread Bob Basques
All, I don't really know what I'm asking here, but here goes. What Compression value does MapServer use for outputting PNG images? Can this be adjusted. I'm interested in outputting PNG's with 0 (zero) compression. Is there a setting somewhere for this? bobb

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Oracle and SELECTs with OGR . .

2006-01-04 Thread Bob Basques
All (well actually, those OGR GURUs), Anyone have an example (request Syntax) of using a OGR connection to filter with a Outer Select using MapServers IMGEXT as the inner select? We're trying to run a complicated SELECT statement against a layer in Oracle, but would like to use the MapServer

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Oracle and SELECTs with OGR . .

2006-01-04 Thread Bob Basques
Frank Warmerdam wrote: What we want to do as the outer select: select * from sewer_permits1 where ogr_fid in (select max(ogr_fid) from sewer_permits1 group by id); We can't seem to get this to be used AFTER the Spatial Select occurs from the MapServer Request. It's rather slow if it's used

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Creating a designated graphics file

2006-01-04 Thread Bob Basques
You could also run MapServer on the commandline as well and pipe the output to a location, you would need some sort of CGI if you need to pass the instructions via the Web though. bobb Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote: Do you need this functionality to be available from the web? Then as

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] [MSF-Discuss] Foundation Purpose, Cost, Name

2005-12-30 Thread Bob Basques
How about Geo-Carta bobb Gary Lang wrote: Howard, I'm with you on everything except the Google hits. I don't understand why being unknown on the net is a benefit. I do like CartaCode. Gary -

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Negative numbers in a Label OFFSET, how?

2005-12-28 Thread Bob Basques
All, My OFFSET values are being interpreted as Positive even though they are negative numbers. Actually only the y value is doing this, the X value seems to be working just fine. Do I need to quote the - signs or something in the MAP file? I didn't see anything in the Reference page about

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Ok, this is going to sound like a weird one (Label POSITION Scaling)

2005-12-28 Thread Bob Basques
All, Why isn't there a way to define how far out the Label POSITION value should be, what is the value anyway? Couldn't a label SCALE value work for something like this? For example, I' working with a fairly large Symbol and the Labels are drawing over the top of the symbols. I'm trying

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Ok, this is going to sound like a weird one (Label POSITION Scaling)

2005-12-28 Thread Bob Basques
defined offset is applied after that.) I can only guess that there is something busted in the size computation function. I'll check on that. Steve Bob Basques [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/28/05 2:15 PM All, Why isn't there a way to define how far out the Label POSITION value should

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Sort of MapServer related . . Stacked, or coincident points . . .

2005-12-28 Thread Bob Basques
All, I need a way to handle a stacked point data set. I'm working with a Address dataset that has some points that are stacked in the same spot. A few of them have hundreds of points in the same location, IE Apt. Buildings, etc. Has anyone worked with a similar dataset before from

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Raster Analysis and MapServer

2005-12-23 Thread Bob Basques
tractor during the upcoming feasibility study. Bob, Good points. As far as timeouts go, any lengthy process could cause timeout issues no matter if it's a web service or connected on the back-end. The timeout would just cascade to the front-end anyways. I believe the grass-server

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] SHP file attribute query . . .

2005-12-23 Thread Bob Basques
All, Any ideas on how to query a SHP file for all of it's Attribute columns through MapServer? I'm wanting to set up a way to select which label to use so that the user can pick which label from the attributes available. Do I need to build a middle ware for this? It seems like a lot of

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] scrolling over a point to view attributes

2005-12-22 Thread Bob Basques
Jennifer A Bennett wrote: We use IMAGEMAPS generated via Mapserver using Templates. The Template contain the Javscript that does exactly this. bobb This is a multipart message in MIME format. --=_alternative 005C8B88862570DF_= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hello, I am

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] scrolling over a point to view attributes

2005-12-22 Thread Bob Basques
Jennifer, I originally put together our first version of this capability for our internal developers here at the City. This is how I got started, it's not the only way: http://www.walterzorn.com/tooltip/tooltip_e.htm Once you have a Webpage working with aboveLIB, then the next step is to make

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Announcement - MapServer Browser Client (Another one)

2005-12-21 Thread Bob Basques
controller | |--OPACITY.JS - Layer Opacity controller | |--DUCKLOADER.JS - | |--POPUPS.JS - ToolTip Controller | |--POINTMANAGER.JS - | \--MENUS.JS- Thanks Bob Basques GIS Systems Developer - Public Works 25 West 4th Street, 1000 CHA City of Saint Paul

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Foundation and Mapserver MAP file manag e tool

2005-12-15 Thread Bob Basques
Flavio Hendry wrote: Bob and all The initial question was about having some WYSIWYG tool for editing MapFiles. There are some out there, I mentioned most of them on http://umn.mapserver.ch - the ultimate mapfile resource :-) My big suggestion is doing the WYSIWYG thing as an online

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