[mapserver-users] Windows Server 2008 R2 CGI
Does anyone have any tips for setting up mapserv CGI on Windows Server 2008 R2 ? I got it working on Windows Server 2008 and took good notes, but R2 has me stumped. I seem to be stuck on Handler Mapping - I can't find it. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks, Rich -- Richard Greenwood richard.greenw...@gmail.com www.greenwoodmap.com ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
[mapserver-users] mapserver as a tiling client for an untiled WMS
Dear List, In my mapserver maps (served as a WMS) I'd like to add a layer from an untiled WMS (not under my control). Simple enough, but this WMS restricts the returned images to a maximum number of pixels, and also restricts the scale (only scales larger than a certain scale is allowed). The maps I'd like to make of course exceeds the limit of pixels. The solution seems simple enough: chop up the request in a series off requests, and stich the returned images together. So basically this is a tiling approach. To complicate things a bit, the service is not spherical mercator. I guess I have to use the GDAL-WMS minidriver and/ or TileCache, but I've not a clue to how to proceed. Can anyone please point me to some usefull examples or give me a short explanation to work from? any help again greatly appreciated ... MArco ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
Re: [mapserver-users] Mapserver vs Geoserver
pcr...@pcreso.com ha scritto: Hi, There are differences, like (as you note below) if you require WFS-T then mapserver will not be of much use. Most differences are due to the java vs cgi underlying approaches. The config gui for geoserver is nice, but a bit of experience scribbling (or cut'n pasting) mapfiles means the gui is not that big a difference (IMHO) The fundamental difference for me is that every mapserver mapfile effectively instantiates a new OGC service provider with its own set of layers, geoserver, however, is a single monolithic service providing all defined layers in the one URL. I want a single server providing lots of custom WMS/WFS services, from mostly PostGIS databases, but also raster tilesets, shapefiles, etc... Mapserver provides this (at present) far more easily than geoserver - so my choice is simple. Yup, true. GeoServer is starting to have something like that with namespace filters: http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/GSIP+44+-+Virtual+services+with+workspaces (available only in trunk builds). Also, last time I looked, Mapserver works more effectively than Geoserver with PostGIS. For example, the mapserver pre-processor with variable substitution allows me to provide a mapfile with a single layer, say querying a table of recorded species locations with 1200 species, in a single query: " ... where species ='%SPP%' ...". The URL querying the service can pass in the value mapserver will use in place of SPP when the query is passed to Postgis. So a single query (layer) in a mapfile provides access to 1200 available layers. AFAIK, geoserver cannot provide this sort of functionality & flexibility with both embedded SQL queries specifying a layer content & runtime variable substitution. I think you're talking about a combination of available functionality: http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/styling/sld-extensions/substitution.html and soon to be available one: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-2123 http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-3922 But yeah, GeoServer has been quite lacking in this respect for a lot of time. Cheers Andrea ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
Re: [mapserver-users] Mapserver vs Geoserver
Hi, Brent Wood Wrote: > So a single query (layer) in a mapfile provides access to 1200 available layers. AFAIK, geoserver cannot provide > this sort of functionality & flexibility with both embedded SQL queries specifying a layer content & > runtime variable substitution. I believe that with OGC services both servers are supporting this kind of queries in a similar way through OGC SDL and Filter Encoding system. In addition Geoserver supports user friendly CQL filters. On the other hand, Mapserver administrator has better control on what queries are accepted through variable substitution than Geoserver admin with CQL filters because Mapserver variables must be specified first and they must have validation rules. However, I suppose that Mapserver does not have either a possibility to set rules for filters which are coming baked in with SLD. -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
