(UMN) MapServer is an Open Source platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web.

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What should I start with WebGis Mapserver?

I'm not native English Speaker and I'm a graduated student who want to have a master degree in software engineering. I have a thesis relative with "Build a WebGis for air pollution in Vietnam's ...
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How to show/hide labels with mapserver and openlayers

I'd like to have a check/uncheck option like this print checkbox to show/hide labels in my WMS layers served by mapserver 5.6.7 in openlayers 2.11. I have a toolbar where to put this using probably ...
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how to stretch GMT raster with gdal to work with google

How can I stretch a PNG raster coming from GMT (Generic Mapping Tools 4.5.6) in such a way that does align with google satellite or bing? such raster is in wgs84 and crosses two UTM zones (17 and 18 ...
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What is the main benefit and drawback of: GeoServer, MapServer, Mapnik? [duplicate]

For the purpose of creating a comparison table, please recommend a couple of feature fields that would apply to each FOSS GIS server. And, perhaps answer the question of which desktop GIS System, ...
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Limit legend only to the displayed area in mapserver + pmapper

I have a big map consist of many scattered layers. To make loading faster, I have merge several layers into one shapefile (*.shp). So in total there are only around 5 layers in the each MAP file. BTW ...
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“ Emergency information system using QGIS”

I am doing a project on " Emergency information system using QGIS" so that i need to know about the optimum path determination between ambulance/ fire services & accident locations as well as ...
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openlayers multiple layers with different projection

My page contains two layers: 1. Open Street Map as a basic layer and WMS layer from mapserver as a overlay layer. My map show this two layers but in a wrong position. I spent a lot of time trying ...
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String comparison expression failing in Mapserver when including fieldname

Within classes I'm able to match strings using CLASSITEM, but not when including the field name in the expression, for example (inside a layer declaration): CLASSITEM "myfieldname" CLASS ...
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User Defined Dynamic Layer in pmapper + mapserver

I am a newbie and I need to develop a web gis app, that have a capability to show a thematic layer dynamically based on users option from combo box. I am using mapserver and pmapper. I want to have a ...
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Command-line exporting QGIS layers to MapServer map file

I know about the QGIS plugin for exporting loaded layers as a MapServer map file, and I would like to know if there is a way to achieve this via terminal. I cannot find useful info on the web.. ...
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Why is mapserver layer not showing up in openlayers?

I'm currently setting up a Mapserver/OpenLayers application. My mapscript works fine when i run on mapserver, but my mapserver layer not showing up in openlayers. this is my mapscript "tangsel.map" ...
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GMT raster (*.tiff + *.pgw) in epsg4326 shifts few kms (4326-900913-3857 problem?)

This seems to be an old problem with an already known solution (ie. "...stop using 900913 and start using 3857..."), but not sure whether this problem is about software versions, the raster itself or ...
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GIS Server - evaluation architecture

Building from my previous questions: QGIS Server limitations? I want to evaluate performance of both MapServer and GeoServer. Can both servers exist on the same machine (each serving out WMS) or ...
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Is there a way to control label density in mapserver?

I'm reading a US County Tiger Shapefile and everything is plotting correctly, but I want to slim down the number of labels shown at scales larger than the state level because it begins to overwhelm ...
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Unsupported WFS request in MapServer at Insert and Update

I'm created a WFS with MapServer (ms4w) and SQL Server DB. The wfs:GetFeature works fine. But I cann't get the wfs:insert/wfs:update to work, they return: <?xml version="1.0" ...

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