Section 1: Static Maps and the MapFile
- Take a shapefile. Any shapefile. We can use MapServer to display that shapefile on a web browser. Look...
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- We can display the same shapefile repeatedly. We can display the polygon attributes on one LAYER and and the line attributes on another...
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- And we can select which parts of the shapefile to display. We do this using the CLASS object...
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- We can also label our maps...
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- Or add raster data such as satellite images, aerial photographs, or shaded reliefs...
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- We can reproject our data from just about any projection to just about any... Yeah, check it out!
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- And we can use layers from other map servers on the internet (as long as they are WMS servers)...
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- MapServer can output to various formats such as PDF and GeoTIFF.
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- MapServer not only generates static maps, it can also create interactive maps...
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