[maplab-users] Re: Maplab-users Digest (Q: Simple tutorial)

Zak James zak4ms at gmail.com
Tue Nov 22 09:02:33 EST 2005 

Hi,

Have you tried working through the tutorial that accompanies maplab?
I'm not aware of any other simple maplab tutorials but maybe someone
on the list will have a suggestion.

On 11/9/05, chief of police <info at carmonapolice.com> wrote:
> CAN you please help me with a very simple tutorial on how to create maps
> with maplab thru very simple steps?  please avoid so many technical words.
>
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> >   1. Re: GMapFactory project generation problem (willianrp at rc.unesp.br)
> >   2. Problem whit MapFactory (Daniel Ignacio Fern?ndez)
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> >Message: 1
> >Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 19:13:17 -0200 (BRST)
> >From: willianrp at rc.unesp.br
> >Subject: Re: [maplab-users] GMapFactory project generation problem
> >To: "Zak James" <zak4ms at gmail.com>
> >Cc: maplab-users at lists.maptools.org
> >Message-ID: <1275.200.145.32.220.1131484397.squirrel at 200.145.32.220>
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> >Hi Zak and all,
> >
> >   At this time my problem is solved, for some reason i tryed to generate
> >the project 4 or 5 times again without change anything and it worked.
> >Now, i´m just having a problem with a layer that should be the first
> >one to be shown and i just get the loading screen. If i try a lot of
> >refreshes it works ... really don´t know what it can be.
> >   About the versions i'm using, after a lot of tries, we noticed that the
> >best version of mapserver and php to run on our real server (not on the
> >development machine), a Sun machine running Solaris 8, are these listed
> >in the e-mail i sent. We had problems with all other versions we tried.
> >
> >Thanks again and regards,
> >
> >Willian Rampazzo
> >
> >
> >
> >>William,
> >>
> >>I don't have PHP 3 to test with, but I think Maplab probably relies on
> >>some php 4 language features. Is there some reason you need to stick
> >>with such an old version?
> >>
> >>zak
> >>
> >>On 11/3/05, Willian Rampazzo <willianrp at rc.unesp.br> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Zak,
> >>>
> >>>     I just tryed to create a gmapfactory application using the tutorial
> >>>mapfile and had the same problem, globprefs.php
> >>> file had the same missing values.
> >>>     About the version of MapServer and packages i'm using, here we go:
> >>>
> >>>     Apache 1.3.9
> >>>     PHP 3.4.5
> >>>     MapServer 4.4.0
> >>>     Freetype 2.1.10
> >>>     GD 2.0.22
> >>>     GDAL 1.3.0
> >>>     JPEG 6b
> >>>     MySQL 4.1.140
> >>>     Proj 4.4.9
> >>>     Tiff 3.7.4
> >>>     LibPNG 1.2.8
> >>>     XPM 3.4k
> >>>
> >>>     Everything running under Linux Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) with
> >>>kernel 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.
> >>>
> >>>     Thanks again in advance,
> >>>
> >>> Willian Rampazzo
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Zak James wrote:
> >>> William,
> >>>
> >>>Are you able to create a gmapfactory application that works from the
> >>>tutorial mapfile? Are you using ms4w?
> >>>
> >>>zak
> >>>
> >>>--
> >>>Zak James
> >>>Applications and Software Development
> >>>DM Solutions Group Inc.
> >>>http://www.dmsolutions.ca
> >>>
> >>>On 11/2/05, Willian Rampazzo <willianrp at rc.unesp.br> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Hello folks,
> >>>
> >>> I'm done with MapEdit on constructing my map file. When i use the
> >>>"Preview Map" function, it shows me the project
> >>>without problems, it looks perfect in the visualization and it works
> >>>fine.
> >>> When i tryed to use GMapFactory to create the project files, it
> >>>created the files but globprefs.php had some missing values
> >>>like the MinX, MinY, MaxX, Max, MAP_WIDTH, MAP_HEIGHT, KEYMAP_WIDTH and
> >>>KEYMAP_HEIGHT.
> >>> I completed it myself but when i try to view the full project on the
> >>>browser using the link that would work it just open
> >>>9 layer of 16 that it has and the map just shows me "Loading Map...
> >>>Please wait".
> >>> I double checked the map file and it's fine. If i open the mapfile on
> >>>MapEdit, it shows me all the 16 layers and the "Preview
> >>>Map" function works perfect.
> >>> Could anyone help me on it? I would really appreciate.
> >>>
> >>>Thanks in advance,
> >>>
> >>>Willian Rampazzo
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> >>--
> >>Zak James
> >>Applications and Software Development
> >>DM Solutions Group Inc.
> >>http://www.dmsolutions.ca
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> >------------------------------
> >
> >Message: 2
> >Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 13:36:42 -0300
> >From: Daniel Ignacio Fern?ndez <ventasdannet at gmail.com>
> >Subject: [maplab-users] Problem whit MapFactory
> >To: maplab-users at lists.maptools.org
> >Message-ID: <56f5f9040511090836h2b1ff5e8j at mail.gmail.com>
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> >Hello, i have a problem when i want to use the mapfactory, for example, if i
> >add a map to the mapfactory, its delete the layers and the objects of the
> >map and add anothers objects as querymap object, scalebar, etc. For example
> >if the map have 3 layers the mapfactory deletes two and in the layer add a
> >metadata empty object- Where is the error?, and wich is the specific use
> >that the mapfactory have in addition to add remote layers and create this
> >new objects?
> >
> >And another question is that i can't connect to the server of ms4w, when i
> >want to connect to this there are some errors, how do you connect to this
> >server?
> >
> >thanks to all
> >Daniel
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Zak James
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