Hi Justin,
MapServer already supports shapefiles format as datasource ( .shp ).
There is plenty of informations on MapServer website about how to
create your mapfile : http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/wms_server
Go and see the "3.3 Sample WMS Server Mapfile" section. This should
be a good start for you.
Hope this helps,
Alexandre
Justin Bailey wrote:
Hi list,
I hope I can get some assistance on a matter of some urgency. Our
organization has been putting the finishing touches on an application
that is supposed to be released by the end of the year. Unexpectedly,
it did not pass license review, because it used Geoserver, which is
GPL-licensed. Since Mapserver has a more permissive license, and is
also WMS-compatible, the decision was made to switch to Mapserver. It
now falls to me, as the junior developer, to do a
last-minute switchover. Unfortunately I come to this task knowing
nothing about either Geoserver *or* Mapserver.
After some difficulty I succeeded in getting Mapserver running on our
existing Tomcat server, but I have not been able to figure out how to
convert the Geoserver data. I have made some encouraging steps on the
Mapserver tutorial but I still know nothing about Geoserver, and I am
running out of time. I need to solve this problem by the end of this
week if possible, or by the end of next week at the absolute latest.
So, I have two questions:
1) Is there a utility I could download that can convert a Geoserver
installation to Mapserver?
-- or --
2) I *think* (crossing fingers) that the only thing I need to do, on
the application side, is to convert the following Javascript call...
var wms = new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS("World",
"geoserver/wms?service=wms", {layers: 'countries', bgcolor: 0x000055});
...into its equivalent Mapserver call. There are four countries.*
files in the geoserver repository:
countries.dbf
countries.prj
countries.shp
countries.shx
How do I create countries.map to serve these files, and what
mapserv.exe call should I use?
Many thanks for any and all assistance.
Justin
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