Hi. I have a map that is broken up into a bunch of .gif tiles. I want to display them on a layer in Mapserver. I have working version of what I want to accomplish, but it uses one .gif (the big map pic), attaches the big map to the globe via a world file. That big map .gif had no georeferencing info attached to it.
These .gifs have no georeferencing information included or attached as well. I read Section 4 (and Section 9 too) on the mapserver site page: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/raster_data >From this I learned that I need a tile index shapefile. I noticed the snippet >at the bottom of Section 4 about gdaltindex and creating a tile index >shapefile. I tried that. Here's what I typed: gdaltindex u_of_ill.shp ~/Desktop/UofImapSquares/*.gif Here's what was returned to me: It appears no georeferencing is available for `/home/jimbo/Desktop/UofImapSquares/A0.gif', skipping. It appears no georeferencing is available for `/home/jimbo/Desktop/UofImapSquares/A12.gif', skipping. and so on......... Ok. Yes. I know. There's no georeferencing info attached. But, how do I go about attaching georeferencing info? And how do I create, edit, and view a shapefile? And lastly, do I need a world file to determine a global position for every tile? I tried using a text editor Gedit (I figured What the Hey?) to open them and nope - wasn't in UTF-8 encoding. I did some digging Google and noticed that you can use ArcView GIS, ArcMap, ArcGIS, and ArcCatalog to create, edit, and view shapefiles. I also stumbled across posting that talked about ShapeLib created by Eduardo Patto Kanegae and maintained by Frank Warmerdam. I don't have money to spend on buying some GIS program, and ShapeLib seems like the answer. Could anyone help? - Chris _________________________________________________________________ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx
