On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Stephen Brown Jr wrote: > I found out about this today: > > http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ > > And I have seen it in action many times over and not even realized it! My > company uses this for an application we run. > > Here's my question, I am a complete newbie when it comes to mapping software > etc. How could something like this be utilized for Xastir if even > applicable? I would love the idea of having my own local mapserver to > serve/render my own maps locally and I am just looking for a starting point.
If it serves up WMS maps, then Xastir can use them. If it only serves up WFS maps, then Xastir has no support for it yet. Here's a sample .geo file to try, use it to create your own that might work with the above server. It helps greatly if you have specs on the server or use a web browser to go in and query which layers it supports first. See below. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" > cat test1.geo WMSSERVER #URL http://mesonet.tamu.edu/cgi-bin/CONUSradar?SERVICE=WMS&LAYERS=radar,nwscounties URL http://atlas.gc.ca/cgi-bin/atlaswms_en?SERVICE=WMS&LAYERS=can_7.5m&VERSION-1.1.0 # # REFRESH tells your program just how often to retrieve the radar # image. Images are recreated on the server every 6 minutes (720 # sec). #REFRESH 720 #TRANSPARENT 0x000000 _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
