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Have a look at GeoMoose.org for a sample application. Go to
osgeo.org for general info on Open Source GIS. Get Tyler Mitchel's
book "Web Mapping Illustrated".<br>
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Good Luck!<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Best Regards,
Brent Fraser</pre>
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On 9/8/2011 11:58 PM, vaibhavgarg wrote:
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<div>woohooo High Five!</div>
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<div>The map renders now and I am glad to have reached the first
step. </div>
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<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>
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</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>
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<div>Thanks once again Brent.</div>
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<div>Warm regards,</div>
<div>Vaibhav G</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:55 AM, Brent
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<div class="im"> Your extents and units are wrong. They must
be valid for the projection specified. Change to<br>
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UNITS METERS<br>
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and remove the LAYER EXTENTS.<br>
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<div class="im"> On 9/8/2011 2:20 PM, vaibhavgarg wrote: </div>
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<div class="h5"><b> 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>
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<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 moz-do-not-send="true" 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
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