Re: [mapserver-users] Ruby Mapscript on Windows

Peter, I have built the ruby bindings on linux lately, but never on Windows. Have you tried asking on the ms4w mailing list? Best regards, Umberto On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:47 AM, hazzar...@fastmail.fm wrote: Does anybody have any advice on how to get Ruby Mapscript working on Windows (2003),

[mapserver-users] Accessing metadata from datafile in mapfile

Hello. Is it possible to access metadata from the data file in a mapfile? We get data from variable sources and need to scale the colour lookup table with a metadata item from the data file. We tried to write the name of the metadata directly in the mapfile, but it didn't work. Look below in

[mapserver-users] WMS client and layers using different CRS namespace prefix

Hi list, I have a question about WMS Client behavior. I have already post this question in the OGC forum... but nobody answered ! I hope that someone of this MapServer Community has an opinion about it. In OpenGIS Implementation Specification documents, we can read : Maps from multiples servers

Re: [mapserver-users] Ruby Mapscript on Windows

I have successfully built and used Ruby mapscript on OS X in the past. I seem to remember having similar (though not identical) problems, which I managed to resolve with a little perseverance. Unfortunately I never tried on Windows Tim On Jan 30, 2009, at 7:47 AM, hazzar...@fastmail.fm

[mapserver-users] regarding database connection in postgresql

hi, i am new to FGSmapserver. i have created one sample mapfile which is NAME object SIZE 800 600 IMAGECOLOR 249 245 186 IMAGETYPE png EXTENT -1.00 -1.00 1.00 1.00 WEB TEMPLATE /opt/fgs/www/htdocs/db.html IMAGEPATH /opt/fgs/www/htdocs/tmp/ IMAGEURL /tmp/ END LAYER NAME data CONNECTIONTYPE

[mapserver-users] MapServer x Oracle 9i

Hi!I'm beginning with MapServer.Does MapServer support Oracle 9i? I visited MapServer website and I just have information about Oracle 10g. Can you pass me some link about it to help me?Thanks in advance!Verusa Verusa

Re: [mapserver-users] problem with raster data..

Melvin, The syntax is: gdaltindex /name_of_tile_index/.shp /location_of_rasters /So, for your example, the syntax would look something like: gdaltindex sample_index.shp c:\ms4w\data\raster\*.tif Regards, Christy -- Christy Nieman GIS Technician DM Solutions Group, Inc. Email:

Re: [mapserver-users] Problem with transparency overlays

Hi Rafael, Here's what the doc has to say about the TRANSPARENT option in the MAP object : TRANSPARENT [on|off] Use FORMATOPTION “TRANSPARENT=ON” in the /OUTPUTFORMAT/ http://mapserver.org/mapfile/outputformat.html#outputformat declaration to specify if the output images should be

Re: [mapserver-users] MapServer x Oracle 9i

Hi We used Mapserver with Oracle9 and Oracle10. I cannot remember any problems which emerged by the the Oracle-version. You should obey http://mapserver.org/input/vector/oracle.html?highlight=oracle#additional-keywords-version Bye Benedikt Rothe mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org

[mapserver-users] plz urgent regarding relative path

Hi all Can anyone tell me please the path of image (gif or png file) in symbol file is relative to what? (2) imagepath of WEB is relative to what?(in map file) (3) image of REFERENCE is relative to what?() Thank you in advance Amiya ___

Re: [mapserver-users] opensource software for 3d gis

Have a look at VTP: http://www.vterrain.org/ rohan phatak wrote: hello friends, i am doing project on 3-d visualization using open source software. So do you know any software which can be display raster + vector + 3d data on it?? i am using open source because lot of people can see their data

Re: [mapserver-users] opensource software for 3d gis

Rohan, We maintain a couple open source projects for 3D/GIS visualization: http://osgearth.org http://osggis.org Plans are in the works to web/js-enable some of this technology as well. Hope this helps. Glenn Waldron : Pelican Mapping : http://pelicanmapping.com : +1.703.652.4791 On Fri,

Re: [mapserver-users] plz urgent regarding relative path

Did you check the mapfile reference? http://www.mapserver.org/introduction.html#introduction-to-the-mapfile http://www.mapserver.org/mapfile/index.html#mapfile You can probably also find what you're looking for here: http://biometry.gis.umn.edu/tutorial/sections.html -Perry Amiya Patra

[mapserver-users] Support for rendering INLINE layers with layer attributes (items)

Folks, I've prepared a patch to implement a support for using the attributes of the inline features when rendering the layer (eg. for supporting LABELITEM and CLASSITEM or attribute bindings) The item names have to be specified by using a PROCESSING parameter as follows: LAYER NAME INLINE

Re: [mapserver-users] opensource software for 3d gis

Hi, Try OpenDX, or the VTK libraries for full 3D interactive/animated capabilities. GMT can draw nice 3D maps, but is not interactive, but scripted. GRASS has nviz, there are other packages like viz5D. Conventional raster images used with GIS are not 3D, so you need to drape them over a 3D