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How to configure MS4W Apache for multiple connections and multiple server urls while using tilecache.py

I have configured my Apache Server to broadcast 4 subdomains to my WMS services. I am using TileCache to serve locally generated (pre-seeded) tiles with ms4w. Here are example urls which request the ...
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Blank MapServer WMS image at low zoom levels in OpenLayers

I have an OpenLayers map using OSM as the baselayer with several layers coming from MapServer via WMS. The OL map is in EPSG:3857 and my mapfile (and shapefiles) are in EPSG:4326. In my mapfile I ...
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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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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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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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How to specify layer getWMSInfo when click feature on map (getWMSInfo with multiple layers)

i'm using getWMSFeatureInfo with multiple layers (point)! When i click a point on map, how to specify point clicked belong to any layer??
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bing maps with mapserver + postgis [closed]

would like to display a layer bing maps with mapserver / postgis, but I can not, I think there are errors related to projection. see: GeoExt - FOSSGIS Brasil --> --> --> --> --> ...
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OpenLayers and TInyOWS WFS won't load - 'InvalidParameterValue'

I've got a tinyows on localhost that works fine (both through browser GetFeature and QGIS). But my OpenLayers code fails. I've checked here: Display a WFS layer with OpenLayers and here : How to add a ...
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Get lon/lat of feature in postgis

I'm hava a problem I have a point layer (shapefile) insert to postgis! I'm using MapServer and OpenLayer to display layer on map! Now, i want get lon/lat all feature of layer! Hope somebody can help ...
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OpenLayers does not render wms layer generated by MapServer

I need to add a wms layer to my OpenLayers map and it should be generated by MapServer installed locally. OpenLayers HTML file <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" ...
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Problem with setCenter in openlayers

I'm working with MapServer/Postgis using OpenLayers to display map! I'm trying setCenter map but it not working! My code: var bounds = new OpenLayers.Bounds(107.567139, 12.326586, 108.258591, ...
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How to create curved polygons using OpenLayers and MapServer? Any Alternatives?

I've created a website that uses OpenLayers, MapServer and a SQL2008R2 database. Part of the website allows users to draw polygons to overlay a map of the UK. Ideally, these polygons need to have ...
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How to use bbox in long/lat with google/bing/etc… using mapserver‏

The bbox of OpenLayers.Control.GetFeature works in utm when the baselayer is 900913 ie. google/bing/etc) and in long/lat when the baselayer is 4326 (ie. my postgis layers served by mapserver), no ...
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What are the requirements for building a Web Mapping and analysis Site?

I want to make a site like bhuvan in which it can provide different layers of information and also tools for performing GIS analysis I know three main requirements : client side scripting ...
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MapServer / OpenLayers: Is there a limit of 16 zoom levels?

I set up a MapServer (WMS) with a raster basemap like this (Mapfile): MAP PROJECTION "init=epsg:900913" END WEB METADATA "wms_title" "mymap" "wms_srs" "epsg:900913" END ...
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Mapserver+openlayers: displaying a shapefile with Cylindrical Equal Area (Lambert) projection

I have some shapefiles in "World Cylindrical Equal Area (Lambert) projection". The .prj reads: PROJCS["World_Cylindrical_Equal_Area",GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM["D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_ ...
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GetFeatureInfo doesn't work!

I'm new at openlayers and I am having some trouble when trying to display the feature info. I have the map working, with the layers I want to add in, but it seems that when I try to ask for the info ...
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Broken image from mapserver, png not rendering

I'm trying to render WMS MapServer data on top of Google Maps using the OpenLayers JS library. My problem arises when I try to render the data as a series of points throughout the New York City area. ...
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Best practice for serving data to OpenLayers client

We have some polyline and point data in SHP format and would like to serve that data to an OpenLayers client. First we thought about converting the data to GeoJSON and send it to the client as a ...
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MapServer and IIS Express configuration

I hope you can help me with the following: We need to create a stand alone asp.net based site that will display some maps. We are using IIS Express to run a site and now we need to add the map server ...
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What is a good learning source for programmer who wants to understand the infrastrucre of map based web map?

I want to to write a simple web app with a map (tile cache because of hi res raster) that once a user click the map he can do some queries on it (as in search in polygon , radius , nearest ) on the ...
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Is dynamically generating Choropleth maps a solved problem?

I am trying to work out what mapping tools I would need to use to dynamically create Choropleth maps from our data. I am working on a project where the backend is a big database of statistics, and ...
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Overlaying WMS from Mapserver in OpenLayers with epsg:900913 from Google/Bing/OpenStreetMap

ADDED: Another curious effect is that no matter to what scale I zoom on the baselayer google/bing map, the WMS overlay is always the same-sized shot of MN. That is, as the baselayer map is scaled up ...
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Double output with getfeaureinfo request with Mapserver and Openlayers

I am trying to make an popup InfoTool in OpenLayers with a Mapserver file. Everything is working fine now. But when I click on the map I gives a double output. So I get for instance: cityname, ...
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OpenLayers / Mapserver WFS Filter: <gml:null>missing</gml:null>

I'm trying to filter features in OpenLayers when moving a JQueryUI slider. It works like this: EDIT: full files available here on GitHub. JQueryUI slider When moving the slider cursor, minSelection ...
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How to use getfeatureinfo with MapServer and OpenLayers?

I'm trying to use the getfeatureinfo function of Openlayers with MapServer. When I click on a point on my map, I get the following error in Firebug: <?xml version='1.0' encoding="ISO-8859-1" ...
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Can't get MapServer WFS to display in OpenLayers

I'm new to OpenLayers and MapServer and I'm trying to serve a shapefile through a WFS but can't seem to get the data to display. When I use Firebug and HttpFox in Firefox I seem to be getting some ...
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Problems with highlight data from database using MapServer WMS and OpenLayers

did someone try highlight features using MapServer and OpenLayers? I tried to create map, where I display layer from MapServer by WMS using OpenLayers. It works, but I cannot highlight features to the ...
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Setting Center Point of Pixmap Symbol for Mapserver

It seems like all the Mapserver documentation on changing the center-point of a symbol only deals with TYPE 'vector' symbols. I have pixmap symbol (the standard looking Google marker image thingy) ...
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postgis, mapserver & openlayers: if data is not in table give an error / pop-up

I have created a website with postgis, mapserver & openlayers. On the website you can enter a postal code and then a drivetime isochroon is created. The problem now is that you can enter ...
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WFS layer from Mapserver into OpenLayers connection error

I have been working for last 15 days to connect setup the WFS service on Mapserver into OpenLayers I tried examples from Mapserver but did not work out .Following is the Map file code snippet MAP ...
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Set Up WFS Service on MapServer and display in OpenLayers

I have used following mapfile to create the WFS service on Mapserver but struggling to display the service output using OpenLayers. Please suggest some links to use WFS service in openlayers. Thanks ...
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WMS,WFS Services in Mapserver

I am new at Mapserver. I was trying to get WMS and WFS services started but could not get any simple article to start the services from scratch and display service data into openlayers. Please ...
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Options for PostGIS and Mapserver outputing SVG, and client with OpenLayers

This question is related to "Options for displaying PostGIS vectors in OpenLayers?", but I need SVG output on server. OpenLayers must render SVG directly. We are using Mapserver6, and thinking on WFS ...
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How to prepare or normalize raw shape (.shp) files for Openlayers use

Hi all it seems like I am having difficulties in normalizing raw map files' resolutions to openlayer's use most probably in parameters mapext and imgext. I hope you can help me with this. Using raw ...
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Identify functionality using mapserver

I am just creating a simple web application using mapserver. It has the basic pan, zoom in/out functionality. Now what I want to try is to get an identify functional added into it so that when I click ...
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Preventing an Openlayers WMS layer from updating on zoom-change

I'm using openlayers to overlay a raster. When I zoom out, the overlaid layer expands to cover a larger area than was originally requested. I want the tile to be fixed to a particular boundary, and ...
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OpenLayers GML Polygon Performance

I'm working on a project where we have a large number of very detailed polygons being displayed on a image using Openlayers. The polygons are added to the map through a GML feed. We are having end ...
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MapServer WMS not configured properly?

This is related to another question I asked just recently: Use OpenLayers WMSGetFeatureInfo on Mapserver Layer? unicoletti indicated that he/she was able to use OpenLayer's WMS Layer declaration to ...
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Use OpenLayers WMSGetFeatureInfo on Mapserver Layer?

I'm able to use OpenLayers' OpenLayers.Layer.Mapserver declaration to generate a raster from GRIB data. I've read in the MapServer docs and on forums that it should be possible to get point ...
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config parser error raised by TileCache and Mapserver with OpenLayers

Just a forewarning, I will try to be as extensive with my question as possible. Due to a number of reasons why this might not be working, I have posted all sorts of portions of my debugging below. ...
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Loading a raster using Openlayers and Mapserver

I'm trying to load a raster into my browser using Openlayers. I can examine my WMS raster layer using OpenJump, but I'm not able to get it to load into my browser. My mapfile is as follows: MAP ...
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Why does Mapserver (ms4w) not generate tmp images?

I am having trouble with my web-based application, where my tmp images are not being stored for later retrieval. The images are generated each time they have to be loaded, so zooming out and then back ...
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Setting up MapServer WMS and use it with OpenLayers

I have set up MapServer WMS on the localhost by the following map file: MAP NAME "Prvi_WMS" SIZE 600 300 # 600 by 300 pixel image output PROJECTION "init=epsg:4326" END ...
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How does mapscript queryByShape work?

I am trying to return the results of queryByShape call from a (large) raster file given a user specified polygon. For example, when a user plots the following polygon on an openlayers layer as ...
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MapServer rendering at the lowest zoom levels

I am developing a web mapping application based on OpenLayers and using a WMS layer from MapServer (the source data for this layer is stored in PostGIS database) and I am facing the following problem: ...
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openlayers + mapserver: controlling tiles

I have a mapserver serving the following mapfile: MAP NAME "GLOBCOVER MAP" # Map image size SIZE 1000 1000 UNITS meters EXTENT -30.001389 -30.106069 80.998611 80.108847 ...

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