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Community
Up one levelAnother way you can get support with MapServer is by participating in the MapServer community. Below are links to email lists, the MapServer IRC channel, conferences, and user groups.
- Conferences by Jeff McKenna — last modified 2006-12-06 09:35
- Meet other MapServer users and developers at these conferences around the world. You can also download proceedings/workshops from past conferences.
- Hosting Providers by Howard Butler — last modified 2006-01-10 09:48
- A listing of hosting providers that allow or have MapServer and/or MapScript available for a fee.
- Internet Relay Chat (IRC) by Howard Butler — last modified 2005-12-14 10:11
- Some of the development of MapServer is coordinated through IRC. This page describes how you log on to chat, ask questions, and hack around with the developers.
- Mailing Lists by Jeff McKenna — last modified 2005-12-14 17:04
- MapServer has several active mailing lists for all skill levels.
- Open Source Geospatial Foundation by Tyler Mitchell — last modified 2006-03-15 10:58
- Items related to MapServer's membership in the OSGF (or OSGeo).
- Polls by Howard Butler — last modified 2005-11-19 16:24
- Polls about MapServer
- Presentations by Jeff McKenna — last modified 2005-11-23 13:32
- An archive of MapServer presentations from various events.
- Scripts by Sean Gillies — last modified 2005-11-20 23:31
- User contributed scripts
- User Groups by Pericles Nacionales — last modified 2005-12-12 16:12
- Regional MapServer User Groups are where users congregate to discuss MapServer and other Open Source GIS technologies.
- Volunteering by Howard Butler — last modified 2006-10-11 10:50
Australian mapserver users group
Is anyone interested in forming an Australian mapserver users group? If interested, contact Tim Bowden tim.bowden at westnet.com.au
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
Things are really busy. As of now it is the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, further information will be available at http://www.osgeo.org.
Please bear with a tansition phase during which information and list mails and so on might get lost or mangled. The CollabNet professionals are doing all they can to keep it as smooth as possible and so far they have been doing a great job.
Welcome MapServer!
graphic scale
I used MapServer for developing simple mapping application. I encountered following cartographic problem: the graphic scale, which is re-generated by MapServer every time I change the scale of the map, does not have a decimal division. MapServer sets the size (or boundaries) of the sections of the graphic scale appropriately to the current map scale, and these boundaries are not decimal (for instance they are: 0-160-320 km instead of 0-100-200-300 km).
I would like to ask you, whether the are some changes planned into the future releases of MapServer, that would enable use of decimal division in the graphic scale. For example: that there would be some parameter determining variable size of the graphic scale within reasonable borders and some other parameter could determine variable number of the scale sections, which would have rounded decimal boundaries (for instance: 0-100-200-300).
Thank you
How do I create a new shapeObj from a list of shapeobj?
I am retrieving a list of shapes from a line shapefile file using the following code:
for($x=0;$x
I want to merge this list of shapes into one shape (i.e. one line). I thought I could do it using the following code but it returns a "Fatal error: Object has an invalid handle property":
$oLine = ms_newShapeObj(MS_SHAPE_LINE);
For($x=0; $x
The goal here is to create one line, then use the GEOS - buffer(width) to create a polygon object that I can save to a new shapefile.
Does anybody have any ideas? OR CODE!!!
Sincerely, Bryon
FOSS4G2008
Potential Tasks and Responsibilities: EDUCATION
The MapServer foundation could be a powerful vehicle for K-12 geography education which, in the US, is absolutely abysmal. While ESRI deserves a lot of credit for their focus on this "market", the private sector tie-in will always be problematic.
Developing EASY-to-use interfaces with grade-appropriate levels of functionality would be a start. Then offering up libraries of content as WMS services would be great. Me, personally, I'd round up grant money to develop content from the Census and UN (Human Geography) and the USGS (Physical Geography). And if it were my millions, I'd launch an effort to put a broad sample of the David Rumsey collection up for a rich historical context.
My sense is that making gathering a rich library of materials with intuitive search and content management would attract the attention of hardware and infrastructure providers (e.g. HP, Dell, Cisco, Verizon, Comcast, etc.) to chip in their resources.
Keyhole/Google Earth showed the broad attraction of a great interface--and their only going to get better. Providing broad access to the geospatial assets floating around in a thousand different spheres in the name of geographic education is quite a worthy goal of the foundation.