[Chameleon] Calling Data from Local Drives

[Paul Spencer]

Aaron,

with chameleon 1.0.4 on windows 2000, it is not possible to include 
local data directly.  Chameleon 1.0.4 is an 'OGC-only' version, which 
means that it works with Context files.  Context files can only refer to 
WMS layers.

It is possible to do what you want by first adding a WMS service to 
serve up your local data as WMS, then building the context to point to 
the data in this WMS service.  There are descriptions of how to do this 
on the MapServer web site:

(http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc40/wms-server-howto.html)

Constructing a context by hand is a little trickier, but you can start 
with an existing one (like the gmap_context.xml distributed with 
Chameleon 1.0.4) and you will see pretty quickly how to edit it I think.

Chameleon 1.1 removes this restriction by working directly with 
MapServer map files which can refer to both local and OGC data sources.

Cheers,

Paul

Aaron Griffin wrote:

> I am working with chameleon 1.0.4 on windows 2000 and I am trying to
> call data from my hard drive to be displayed in my map.  The data is a
> collection of shape files created in arcview.  What do i need to add to
> the context file to load these datasets?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Aaron Griffin
> Centre for Sustainable Watersheds
> 
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