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