Section 1: Static Maps and the MapFile¶
Take a vector dataset. Any vector datatype supported by GDAL. We can use MapServer to display that vector 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...