[maplab-users] Newbie question...

[Jeff McKenna]

good question.  You might want to try to remove the minscale and 
maxscale parameters.

other than that I'm not sure what is going on.

jeff



Athanasis Nikolaos wrote:
>  
> Hello all,
>  
> I just installed ms4w in a WinXP environment, and followed the tutorial 
> given in order to build a map.
>  
> Please see my map on-line: 
> http://195.251.137.181/maplab_projects/gmf_apps/xartis_lesvos/xartis_lesvos.phtml
>  
> Unfortunately, a "zoom/in -  zoom-out" problem appears. You can check 
> this out: Every time you zoom in an area of the map, the map zooms out....
>  
> What could be the problem?
> Is it something that has to do with the extent?
>  
> I give you the raw map fie, and I would very much appreciate it if you 
> could help me, in my first steps in the GIS map development!
>  
> P.S All I have installed is just the ms4w package,  and tried to 
> construct the map file with the help of mapedit....
>  
>  
>  
>       MAP
>   NAME "xartis_nikos5"
>   STATUS ON
>   EXTENT 398151 4310734.625 466700 4362146.375
>   SIZE 800 600
>   SHAPEPATH "C:/ms4w/apps/maplab-2.2.1/tutorial/data/output_kostas"
>   SYMBOLSET "C:/ms4w/apps/maplab-2.2.1/tutorial/etc/symbols.sym"
>   FONTSET "C:/ms4w/apps/maplab-2.2.1/tutorial/etc/fonts.txt"
>   IMAGETYPE png
>   IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
>   UNITS METERS
>   WEB
>     MINSCALE 2e+006
>     MAXSCALE 5e+007
>     IMAGEPATH "C:/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp/"
>     IMAGEURL "/ms_tmp/"
>     METADATA
>     END
>   END
>   REFERENCE
>     STATUS ON
>     IMAGE "images/keymap.png"
>     SIZE 100 75
>     EXTENT -2.2e+006 -712631 3.0728e+006 3.84e+006
>     COLOR -1 -1 -1
>     OUTLINECOLOR 255 0 0
>     MINBOXSIZE 3
>     MAXBOXSIZE 0
>     MARKER 0
>     MARKERSIZE 0
>   END
>   QUERYMAP
>     STATUS OFF
>     SIZE -1 -1
>     COLOR 255 0 0
>     STYLE HILITE
>   END
>   LEGEND
>     STATUS ON
>     IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
>     POSITION LL
>     KEYSIZE 18 12
>     KEYSPACING 5 5
>     TEMPLATE 
> "C:/ms4w/apps/maplab-2.2.1/htdocs/mapbrowser/legend_template.html"
>     LABEL
>       TYPE BITMAP
>       SIZE MEDIUM
>       OFFSET 0 0
>       BUFFER 0
>       MINDISTANCE -1
>       MINFEATURESIZE -1
>       COLOR 0 0 89
>       PARTIALS TRUE
>       FORCE FALSE
>     END
>   END
>   SCALEBAR
>     STATUS ON
>     COLOR 255 255 255
>     OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
>     BACKGROUNDCOLOR 0 0 0
>     IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
>     UNITS KILOMETERS
>     INTERVALS 5
>     SIZE 150 5
>     STYLE 0
>     POSITION LL
>     LABEL
>       TYPE BITMAP
>       SIZE SMALL
>       OFFSET 0 0
>       BUFFER 0
>       MINDISTANCE -1
>       MINFEATURESIZE -1
>       COLOR 0 0 0
>       PARTIALS TRUE
>       FORCE FALSE
>     END
>   END
>   OUTPUTFORMAT
>     NAME "png"
>     MIMETYPE "image/png"
>     DRIVER "GD/PNG"
>     EXTENSION "png"
>     IMAGEMODE PC256
>     TRANSPARENT FALSE
>   END
>   LAYER
>     NAME "akto_lesvos"
>     STATUS ON
>     DATA "akto"
>     TYPE POLYGON
>     UNITS METERS
>     SIZEUNITS PIXELS
>     TOLERANCEUNITS PIXELS
>     METADATA
>     END
>     CLASS
>       NAME "aktogrammi"
>     END
>   END
> END
>  
>  
>  
> Athanasis Nikolaos
> Postgraduate Student
> University of the Aegean
> Department of Geography
> University Hill
> 81100 Mytilene, GREECE
>  
> TEL  +30-22510-36437


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