Lars, Thanks for the great notes! This kind of "first blush" feedback is hugely useful, since users are by definition only new to a piece of software once -- this kind of knowledge is lost almost immediately.
P. On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Lars Westerlind<[email protected]> wrote: > Newbie feedback > > > > Hello all, > > we newly installed Mapserver as ms4w installation on windows; and we are > very satisfied. > > We got up and running very fast, even though we are not fluent in the > techniques > > used (in Partiucar, Apache webserver). However, I want to share a few small > points that caused > > unnecessary problems. > > > > 1. A suggestion where in the directory structure to put the mapfiles would > be appreciated. If there are > > different meanings, give two or three scenarios. Also include the looks of > the URL reference to the mapfile. > > 2. Why not enclose a small working example with one simplest possible > mapfile and one shapefile set? And > > perhaps another more advanced mapfile with some common techniques exposed? > > 3. Font handling caused me much problems. As it is a windows installation, > it could be at least a insall note / readme describing > > where to search for the .ttf files. The Mapserver documentation doesn't say > anything about Windows, and in Windows you need not be very > > aware of where to find the font files, so it took some time to find out. It > appears that the documentation is not very clear either; > > I hade to create a fontset file and refer to it to get it work; the > documentation hints that font references could be written in the fontset > > clause, but I didn't manage. > > 4. The default font handling (bitmap) was confusing as it appears to be > ascii based, where the > > true type font appears to be Unicode/UTF-8 based. When doing the correct > 'encoding', the output was silly until I managed to handel the > > true type fonts correctly. > > 5. I would suggest more examples in the documentation, especially around > mapfile editing. In examles you > > would also get punctuation issues and such > > > > I think that was my most important points I think. > > > > Kind regards > > Lars Westerlind > > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > > _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
