Well, since noone else has responded to this (and there are a lot of folks who know more about it than I do...) -
It's world "file" not world "map". Basically it's just a file that is used to georeference the image. Check this out: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/raster_data/#georeference-with-world -files David Lowther -----Original Message----- From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Maine(ATS) Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 10:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] How to use ESRI Map with Mapserver? How do you create a world map? Thanks David! Paul, I guess I see two ways to approach this problem: 1 - If the web service is WMS compliant (yes, I know this is a stretch) then you could use the service as a layer in your map configuration file. 2 - You would need to automate several steps each time you make a map: - Request the ArcWeb Services map at an extent and projection that matches the current extent of the map. (It's surprisingly hard to say, but what I mean is, if you zoom in the extent changes. Request a map at this extent.) - Create a world file from the returned image (if it doesn't exist) - Create a dummy layer in your Mapfile for the ArcWeb image. - Modify the Data attribute of the dummy layer with the image file you returned above. I'm sure there are gotchas in this scenario, but I have managed to successfully make this work for ArcIMS and Mapserver, I can't imagine ArcWeb Services would be that much more difficult. David Lowther -----Original Message----- From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Maine(ATS) Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 10:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] How to use ESRI Map with Mapserver? I have installed MS4W and am using a PHP5 web service to get a map image (gif) from ESRI Arcweb Services. How can I use the map image with MapServer? In other words, I desire to use this map image as the bottom layer and then use MapServer to add additional layers. Thank You
