Hi Paul, QGIS has such a tool, I'm not sure about Arc.
You should be able to handcraft a generic mapfile as a template you can re-use as required. I had a use case some time ago for this sort of thing & used a Linux shell script to make the text substitutions in such a template from reading a spreadsheet containing the mapfile parameters required for each individual shapefile. These days I tend to manage data in Postgis, & use a filter or mapserver's variable substitution to manage such situations. Using a single mapfile with cgi wrappers to re-use it in this way for different datasets works better for me than maintaining lots of separate mapfiles. In a couple of situations where this is not flexible enough, having a cgi actually contain the mapfile text, so it writes the customised mapfile, then invokes it, also works for me. Cheers, Brent Wood --- On Sat, 2/4/12, Paul Maddock <[email protected]> wrote: From: Paul Maddock <[email protected]> Subject: [mapserver-users] Mapfile Generators To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, February 4, 2012, 2:49 AM Hi all, Are there any extensions of ArcView 10 which I can export .shp files into mapfiles or possibly any other open source mapfile generators? It seems time consuming to manually create these map files if I have a large collection of shapefiles. Many thanks,Paul -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
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