<div>woohooo High Five!</div><div><br></div><div>The map renders now and I am glad to have reached the first step. </div><div><br></div><div>For this project the end requirements are rather complex and I am bound to have trouble due to lack of knowledge and difficultly in finding information online.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Can you give me some advice on how to learn more about Projections and GIS is general, books, online resources etc as I look forward to doing a lot more mapping work.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
<div>Thanks once again Brent.</div><div><br></div><div>Warm regards,</div><div>Vaibhav G</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:55 AM, Brent Fraser [via OSGeo.org] <span dir="ltr"><<a href="/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=6774941&i=0" target="_top" rel="nofollow" link="external">[hidden email]</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Your extents and units are wrong. They must be valid for the
projection specified. Change to<br>
<br>
UNITS METERS<br>
<br>
and remove the LAYER EXTENTS.<br>
</div><pre cols="72">Best Regards,
Brent Fraser</pre>
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On 9/8/2011 2:20 PM, vaibhavgarg wrote:
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Ok now it is back to the empty tiles.. here is what the map file
looks like:<br>
That other error shows up anytime I specify a unknown
projection..a side product maybe.
</b>
<br>
<br>
<pre>MAP
NAME WMS_Server
SIZE 256 256
UNITS dd
EXTENT -2.290993 50.833757 -1.766036 51.105957
FONTSET '../etc/fonts.txt'
SYMBOLSET '../etc/symbols.txt'
STATUS ON
PROJECTION
"proj=merc"
"a=6378137"
"b=6378137"
"lat_ts=0.0"
"lon_0=0.0"
"x_0=0.0"
"y_0=0"
"k=1.0"
"units=m"
"nadgrids=@null"
"no_defs"
END
IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
IMAGEQUALITY 95
IMAGETYPE png
OUTPUTFORMAT
NAME png
DRIVER 'GD/PNG'
MIMETYPE 'image/png'
IMAGEMODE RGB
EXTENSION 'png'
END
WEB
IMAGEPATH '/tmp/ms_tmp/'
IMAGEURL '/tmp/'
METADATA
'wms_title' 'Hampshire'
'wms_onlineresource' '<a href="http://localhost:8088/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=C:/ms4w/apps/gmap/htdocs/hampshire.map" rel="nofollow" link="external" target="_blank">http://localhost:8088/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=C:/ms4w/apps/gmap/htdocs/hampshire.map</a>'
'wms_srs' 'EPSG:4326'
'wms_enable_request' '*'
END
TEMPLATE 'fooOnlyForWMSGetFeatureInfo'
END
LAYER
NAME 'HampshireAreas'
TYPE POLYGON
DEBUG ON
TEMPLATE fooOnlyForWMSGetFeatureInfo
EXTENT -2.290993 50.833757 -1.766036 51.105957
DATA 'C:/ms4w/apps/gmap/data/HampshireAreas.shp'
METADATA
'wms_title' 'HampshireAreas'
END
PROJECTION
"proj=tmerc"
"lat_0=49"
"lon_0=-2"
"k=0.9996012717"
"x_0=400000"
"y_0=-100000"
"ellps=airy"
"datum=OSGB36"
"units=m"
"no_defs"
END
STATUS DEFAULT
CLASS
NAME 'HampshireAreas'
STYLE
WIDTH 0.91
OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
COLOR 73 135 43
END
END
END
END</pre>
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