> Well, there are indeed many deficiencies in GDAL/OGR and MapServer > documentation. The assistance of you, and other community members > is critical in improving the documentation, so thanks for your willingness > to dig in!
I will make the edits later. Please see below for a known FWTools bug I ran into, and solved thanks to an earlier posting from you. > > Now I have a different problem. I'm running MapServer 4.0 on a Linux > > box with OGR 1.1.9. I read that OVF was introduced in OGR 1.2.0 (and > > in fact, my ogr2ogr line can't handle the ovf file!). Given my old > > MapServer, do you think it'd be safe to upgrade GDAL/OGR to the latest > > version without upgrading MapServer (I don't want to deal with all the > > dependencies just yet)? > > Note that while OVF (which I call OGR VRT) support may have been > introduced in 1.2.0, there were also numerous fixes and improvements > in the facility right through to 1.3.1. I installed the current FWTools (1.0.0a7) on both Windows and Linux. Everything works fine on Windows. (BTW, I think the syntax is much more consistent now). But on Linux I ran into the FWTools/ogr2ogr bug described (and solved) here: http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/fwtools/2006-February/000304.html Your solution worked great. > To answer your question, I believe MapServer 4.0 should work just fine > with GDAL/OGR 1.3.1. While I respect your need to manage risk in upgrading, > it is generally hard to support people using significantly old versions > of the software. When answering I certainly never thought you might > be running such old versions of MapServer or GDAL/OGR. So, I would > encourage you to upgrade to the latest stable release of things when > you can if you are hoping for assistance, or bug fixes. I fully understand, no worries. I do plan to upgrade MapServer and all dependencies, I just haven't had time... Thanks so much for all your help. -Emilio
