Hi Jukka,
Speaking of that, I spent a considerable amount of time for this release
setting up the MS4W add-ons for this version (MapServer 7). Actually
this does handle the needs you mention. Such as OGC: well there is an
MS4W add-on named "MapServer OGC Workshop" that contains so many links
to services and working mapfiles (all working for MapServer 7). Need
full applications working with MapServer 7? : well there is GeoMOOSE
(latest release) or Mapbender (latest release), all ready for you to use
with MS4W. Looking for the original (as in Steve Lime's CGI demo), it
works now with MapServer 7 even, as an MS4W add-on, named "MapServer
Itasca Demo Application". :)
In total there is over 500 MB of working mapfiles, data, applications
ready to get you going.
Give them a try: http://www.ms4w.com/download.html
See you on the new MS4W list.
-jeff
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Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/
On 2015-09-23 11:39 AM, Rahkonen Jukka (MML) wrote:
Hi Jeff,
That will be great. I am sure that Mapserver has frightened away thousands of
new users because it is so difficult to make the very first map. Just compare
it with Geoserver that comes with the data_dir and fine collection of readymade
demo services and layers. It is not so easy to make Mapserver demos which would
work out-of-the box on both Windows and Linux, but making it to work in MS4W
will be a good start.
-Jukka-
-----Alkuperäinen viesti-----
Lähettäjä: Jeff McKenna [mailto:[email protected]]
Lähetetty: 23. syyskuuta 2015 4:18
Vastaanottaja: Rahkonen Jukka (MML)
Aihe: Re: [mapserver-users] Announcing the new MS4W
Hi Jukka,
Great idea, actually I have something ready from a workshop that can be used.
Will add it with the upcoming GDAL 2.0.1
-jeff
On 2015-09-22 10:40 AM, Rahkonen Jukka (MML) wrote:
Hi Jeff,
I believe that MapServer should offer an immediate "It works" experience for new users.
Could you consider to include some demo data and mapfiles into the standard delivery of MS4W?
They could be placed for example into \apps\demo. Once they are there we could have WMS GetMap
links with &FORMAT=image/png and &FORMAT=application/openlayers on a visible place of the
html page that opens from http://localhost. Or the OpenLayers map could even be included on the
start page by default.
If you think it is a good idea I can make some first few mapfiles on top of
Natural Earth countries. It seems to mean about 5 MB extra as zipped but I do
believe that it would be worth it. I could start with these:
- Hello world WMS - simple but still complete with enough WMS metadata, and
naturally debug and ms_errorfile.
- WMS with some styling
- WMS with labels
- WMS with GetFeatureInfo
- WFS
I could also write a short document about how to get the first map with
shp2img, browser, and with a few GIS program.
Regards,
-Jukka Rahkonen-
Jeff McKenna wrote: Announcing the new MS4W
Hi everyone!
Just in time for FOSS4G-Seoul, I'm very proud to announce the new MS4W[1] MS4W
is thriving, as you can see by its long history[2] of releases, and the last
few months has seen a lot of development. Much thanks goes to Tanya Haddad for
her support for this release, it has been quite an effort updating the full
stack (the number of libraries updated and added is large as you see in the
recent history).
You'll also note that there has been releases happening, we just needed a new
home for people to find them. It's quite exciting to live at ms4w.com now, and
you'll also notice that we have been using a new tracker[3] which has been
working well (please feel free to use it).
You may also notice that releases now have a Roadmap[4], every 3 months with
dated milestones, and you can follow along the exact changes coming through the
tracker link on that page.
This 3.1.0 release has some tasty features, including optimized Apache
2.4, MapServer 7.0, PHP 5.4.45, all mapscripts, Oracle support,
MapCache
1.4.0 (with GDAL support), TinyOWS 1.1.1, spatialite/OSM utilities, and many
many more goodies. New users might like to start at the features[5] page to
review.
Finally we have moved to a new mailing list (I haven't been able to
post to my own old MS4W mailing list for almost 2 years now): please
join, as all releases will be announced and support given through the
new MS4W list[6] So, I'll cya there! :)
Thanks so much everyone, I am quite excited.
[1] http://www.ms4w.com/
[2] http://www.ms4w.com/HISTORY.html
[3] http://www.ms4w.com/trac/
[4] http://www.ms4w.com/roadmap.html
[5] http://www.ms4w.com/features.html
[6] http://lists.ms4w.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ms4w-users
-jeff
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