Monali Lodha wrote:
Hi,
We are working on displaying the TIGER Data using MapServer.
This is our first time with MapServer, and we would appreciate your
help in the following areas:
1. We could run the Itasca Demo Application. However, we could not
integrate our shapefiles with the sample
A few questions for you.
Regarding #1
Were all of your shapes in the same projection as the Itasca demo? If not,
their coordinates may have been far outside of the extents of the map.
Regarding #2
Do you have 300 shapefiles, meaning you have 300 layers you wish to display?
If so, you might
Thanks Stephen and Dan!
@Stephen
The recent Tiger Shapefiles come with .prj files and do have a
projection. Could there be a different issue then?
@Dan
Regarding #1
Were all of your shapes in the same projection as the Itasca demo? If not,
their coordinates may have been far outside of the
: [mapserver-users] Starting with TIGER Line Data and MapServer
Thanks Stephen and Dan!
@Stephen
The recent Tiger Shapefiles come with .prj files and do have a
projection. Could there be a different issue then?
@Dan
Regarding #1
Were all of your shapes in the same projection as the Itasca demo
Monali Lodha wrote:
Thanks Stephen and Dan!
@Stephen
The recent Tiger Shapefiles come with .prj files and do have a
projection. Could there be a different issue then?
Mapserver does NOT look at the *.prj file. You have to do that yourself
and set the PROJECTION ... END blocks appropriately
