<html><div style='background-color:'><P>Hello,</P>
<P>I am using maplab and it is so nice and easy to use.I have written some mapfiles but the maplab cant open it.I shows all the other features with the exception of the display of the map itself, but the tutorial mapfile is working perfectly.</P>
<P>I would like to know if there is any idea of viewing the map or if there is other things I have to do.Need help.Below is an example of my mapfile <BR><BR><FONT size=2></P>
<P>#</P>
<P># Start of german.map file</P>
<P>#</P>
<P>#</P>
<P>MAP</P>
<P>NAME "GERMAN"</P>
<P>STATUS ON</P>
<P>EXTENT -2200000 -712631 3072800 3840000 </P>
<P>SIZE 400 300 </P>
<P>SHAPEPATH "./data"</P>
<P>SYMBOLSET "./etc/symbols.sym"</P>
<P>FONTSET "./etc/fonts.txt"</P>
<P>IMAGETYPE PNG</P>
<P>IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255</P>
<P>UNITS METERS</P>
<P>#</P>
<P># Start of web interface definition</P>
<P>#</P>
<P>WEB</P>
<P>MINSCALE 2e+06</P>
<P>MAXSCALE 5e+07</P>
<P>#</P>
<P># On Windows systems, /tmp and /tmp/ms_tmp/ should be created at the root </P>
<P># of the drive where the .MAP file resides.</P>
<P>#</P>
<P>IMAGEPATH "/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp/" </P>
<P>IMAGEURL "/ms_tmp/"</P>
<P>END</P>
<P>#</P>
<P># Start of reference object (keymap)</P>
<P>#</P>
<P># REFERENCE</P>
<P># STATUS ON</P>
<P># IMAGE "images/keymap.png"</P>
<P># SIZE 100 75 </P>
<P># EXTENT -2.2e+06 -712631 3.0728e+06 3.84e+06 </P>
<P># COLOR -1 -1 -1</P>
<P># OUTLINECOLOR 255 0 0</P>
<P># MINBOXSIZE 3</P>
<P># MAXBOXSIZE 0</P>
<P># MARKER 0</P>
<P># MARKERSIZE 0</P>
<P># END</P>
<P>#</P>
<P># Start of querymap object</P>
<P>#</P>
<P>QUERYMAP</P>
<P>STATUS OFF</P>
<P>SIZE -1 -1 </P>
<P>COLOR 255 0 0</P>
<P>STYLE HILITE</P>
<P>END</P>
<P>#</P>
<P># Start of legend object</P>
<P>#</P>
<P>LEGEND</P>
<P>STATUS ON</P>
<P>IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255</P>
<P>POSITION LL</P>
<P>KEYSIZE 18 12 </P>
<P>KEYSPACING 5 5 </P>
<P>TEMPLATE "ttt"</P>
<P>LABEL</P>
<P>TYPE BITMAP</P>
<P>SIZE MEDIUM</P>
<P>OFFSET 0 0 </P>
<P>BUFFER 0</P>
<P>MINDISTANCE -1</P>
<P>MINFEATURESIZE -1</P>
<P>COLOR 0 0 89</P>
<P>PARTIALS TRUE</P>
<P>FORCE FALSE</P>
<P>END</P>
<P>END</P>
<P>#</P>
<P># Start of scalebar object</P>
<P>#</P>
<P>SCALEBAR</P>
<P>STATUS ON</P>
<P>COLOR 255 255 255</P>
<P>OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0</P>
<P>BACKGROUNDCOLOR 0 0 0</P>
<P>IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255</P>
<P>UNITS KILOMETERS</P>
<P>INTERVALS 5</P>
<P>SIZE 150 5 </P>
<P>STYLE 0</P>
<P>POSITION LL</P>
<P>LABEL</P>
<P>TYPE BITMAP</P>
<P>SIZE SMALL</P>
<P>OFFSET 0 0 </P>
<P>BUFFER 0</P>
<P>MINDISTANCE -1</P>
<P>MINFEATURESIZE -1</P>
<P>COLOR 0 0 0</P>
<P>PARTIALS TRUE</P>
<P>FORCE FALSE</P>
<P>END</P>
<P>END</P>
<P></P>
<P>#</P>
<P># Start of OutputFormat object</P>
<P>#</P>
<P>OUTPUTFORMAT</P>
<P>NAME "png"</P>
<P>MIMETYPE "image/png"</P>
<P>DRIVER "GD/PNG"</P>
<P>EXTENSION "png"</P>
<P>IMAGEMODE PC256</P>
<P>TRANSPARENT FALSE</P>
<P>END</P>
<P>#</P>
<P># Start of layer definitions</P>
<P>#</P>
<P>LAYER</P>
<P>NAME "deu_city"</P>
<P>STATUS ON</P>
<P>DATA "deu_city"</P>
<P>TYPE POINT</P>
<P>UNITS METERS</P>
<P>SIZEUNITS PIXELS</P>
<P>TOLERANCE 0</P>
<P>TOLERANCEUNITS PIXELS</P>
<P>METADATA</P>
<P>"DESCRIPTION" "German Cities"</P>
<P>END</P>
<P>END # Layer</P>
<P></P>
<P>END # MAPFILE</P>
<P></FONT><BR> </P>
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