On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 05:01:36PM -0400, Schuyler Erle wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 21:02 +0100, Ian Mayo wrote: > > Does anybody here know how metacarta produce this WMS layer? I'm > > familiar with VPF, but a google search indicates that the GeoServer > > VPF implementation is a little dodgy - so I presume they're either not > > using GeoServer or not using the native VPF viewer. > > It's rendered with MapServer, backed by GDAL/OGR and OGDI. I think I > wrote the map file for it when I was working there, unless my memory is > seriously distorted.
No serious distortion. > They've probably tweaked it since. Not a bit. > For example, I don't remember if we use ogr2ogr to convert the VPF > data to Shapefile, or whether it reads the VPF data directly. Neither :) The data was originally converted (before either of our time, I believe) using now-defunct binary only ogdi tools. -- Chris > > SDE > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > Dev@openlayers.org > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
