[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Symbols: cut-off and decluttering

2007-12-20 Thread Dave Weaver
I'm trying to plot symbols on a map (US highway shields), but am experiencing problems. If I ask MapServer for two adjacent squares of map, on the northern square I get the top half a symbol (it is at the southern boundary) and on the southern square there is no sign of that symbol. When the

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] mapserver update

2007-12-20 Thread R. Ortner
fyi found the problem: I had the following path in the Makefile: PHP_SRC_DIR = /usr/include/php/main/ changed it to: PHP_SRC_DIR = /usr/include/php/ that worked out and created the php_mapscript.so, after replacing the old I have MapServer version 5.0.0 installed! thx for all your help!

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] New to Mapserver

2007-12-20 Thread David H. McCoy
The customers will be expected to supply their own maps or floorplans from whatever source they deem appropriate. I need a map for development purposes. Somethng large enought to pan around, something that can be zoomed, something to which I can add marker, preferably something free that I can

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] width/height greater than 2048 pixels?

2007-12-20 Thread Smith, Michael
I have MS4W installed and it works great. We envision using it as WMS for raster data. One issue I am running into is trying to print large maps in ArcGIS or MapInfo. I get the WMS error message WMS service exceptions:Service Error Description: msWMSLoadGetMapParams(): WMS server error. Image

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] width/height greater than 2048 pixels?

2007-12-20 Thread Gregor Mosheh
Smith, Michael wrote: WIDTH and HEIGHT must be between 1 and 2048 pixels. If I recall, this is set in map.h in the source code. Get source, edit, recompile. If this changed in 5.0, that'd be nice. -- Gregor Mosheh / Greg Allensworth System Administrator, HostGIS cartographic development

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] width/height greater than 2048 pixels?

2007-12-20 Thread Daniel Morissette
Smith, Michael wrote: WMS service exceptions:Service Error Description: msWMSLoadGetMapParams(): WMS server error. Image size out of range, WIDTH and HEIGHT must be between 1 and 2048 pixels. [...] Can I increase the limit of 2048 pixels? If so, how, is it in some configuration file? What

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] width/height greater than 2048 pixels?

2007-12-20 Thread Gregor Mosheh
Daniel Morissette wrote: Look for MAXSIZE in http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/mapfile/mapObj That's nice to know thanks Daniel. Is that new to 5, or 4.10? I recall the answer used to be recompile -- Gregor Mosheh / Greg Allensworth System Administrator, HostGIS cartographic

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] width/height greater than 2048 pixels?

2007-12-20 Thread Daniel Morissette
Gregor Mosheh wrote: Daniel Morissette wrote: Look for MAXSIZE in http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/mapfile/mapObj That's nice to know thanks Daniel. Is that new to 5, or 4.10? I recall the answer used to be recompile MAXSIZE has been there for a while. According to HISTORY.TXT

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] New to Mapserver

2007-12-20 Thread Ed McNierney
OK - I promise I'll only ask one more time, and then give up g. For which countries do you need map data, whether it's free or not? If your customers are expected to supply them, what maps were you asking about when you asked for data? - Ed From: UMN

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] CLASSITEM + EXPRESSION

2007-12-20 Thread Hans Castorp
Hi to all, I’m trying to filter a postgis layer using the statement EXPRESSION. I think my configuration is fine but doesn’t works. Anyone of you detects any trouble on this LAYER statement: LAYER CONNECTION host=localhost dbname=lalin user=??? password=???

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] width/height greater than 2048 pixels?

2007-12-20 Thread bobb
All, We did this as well, but you need to be aware that it can really tax your image service to build layers at this size in one request. We ran into a limit of how large even this setting could be as well, and still needed to tile in the end. bobb On Dec 20, 2007, at 12:53 PM,

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] FW: No color showing up in map

2007-12-20 Thread David J. Renz
Hello. I am just getting started with MapServer. I have created a map that connects to a test postGIS database. I also have an demo MapScript (C#) app that connects successfully to the map. The application is able to pull up the map and I can get around. The problem is that my map is only

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] New to Mapserver

2007-12-20 Thread David H. McCoy
The application will probably need maps for the United States. I thought that I was to be tasked with supplying maps, but that isn't the case. I would be grateful for a list of any commerical or freeware maps the US that has detail down to the street level. The freeware would be used by me

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] No color showing up in map

2007-12-20 Thread David J. Renz
Hello. I am just getting started with MapServer. I have created a map that connects to a test postGIS database. I also have an demo MapScript (C#) app that connects successfully to the map. The application is able to pull up the map and I can get around. The problem is that my map is only

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] libpdf {Scanned}

2007-12-20 Thread Siki Zoltan
Hi List, I compiled mapserver 5.0.0 on a debian box. MapServer version 5.0.0 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP OUTPUT=PDF OUTPUT=SVG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=AGG SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE Everything

[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Setting Layer Transparency From CGI URL?

2007-12-20 Thread Bruce, Bob (CON)
Hi: I was wondering if there is a way to change the transparency of individual layers from form variables similar to the way that layers are turned on and off. thanks, Bob Bruce

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

2007-12-20 Thread Ben Madin
G'day all, I have a list of small polygons spread out over about 2500 kms, and I want to be able to zoom to a polygon by choosing it from a list. The data is all in a postgis database, so I can get the polygon names, gid and centroid location. I had through I would put the names into a

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

2007-12-20 Thread Richard Greenwood
On Dec 20, 2007 6:20 PM, Ben Madin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day all, I have a list of small polygons spread out over about 2500 kms, and I want to be able to zoom to a polygon by choosing it from a list. The data is all in a postgis database, so I can get the polygon names, gid and

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Setting Layer Transparency From CGI URL?

2007-12-20 Thread Matthew Pettis
Meant to send this to the whole list for posterity... Hi Bob, I think what you want is the 'Changing map file parameters via a form or a URL' section of: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/cgi/controls hth, matt On Dec 20, 2007 4:55 PM, Bruce, Bob (CON) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] CLASSITEM + EXPRESSION

2007-12-20 Thread Kathrin KÖHL
Hi! I haven't worked with PostGIS yet but with my Shapefiles I use EXPRESSION like this: LAYER NAME admin DATA /mypath/ TEMPLATE '../templates/' STATUS ON TYPE POLYGON CLASSITEM NAT CLASS NAME 'Belgium' EXPRESSION 'BE' STYLE COLOR 255 255 255 END END CLASS NAME 'Germany' EXPRESSION 'GM' STYLE