Questions tagged [mapserver]
MapServer (formerly referred to as "UMN MapServer") is an Open Source platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web. Built on C, MapServer is known for being one of the fastest mapping engines. Hundreds of vector and raster formats can be accessed in MapServer directly through GDAL.
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MapServer - Adjust brightness and contrast of a layer
I'm completely new to GIS/MapServer stuff. I'm working on an application that displays geotiff images on a 3d earth/map. I'd like to be able to adjust the brightness and contrast for this imagery via ...
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MapServer slow rendering on Leaflet viewer
I am trying to use display shapefile data on top of raster images using Leaflet.
I render the shapefile data using leaflet L.tileLayer.wms function.
The size of shapefile is 300mb. The problem is that ...
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MapServer stopped showing maps on a website
I have a MapServer version 7* installed on Linux, to serve maps to a website. It worked well until recently, but now it's not serving maps anymore and can't figure out why.
When I check ps aux, the ...
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MapManager - Mapserver
I'm using MapManager to create the file .map but I can't understand how mapserver opens this file, I try to see the folder of pmapper where there is the demo file. I put the my .map file there and ...
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MapServer UVraster layer with two data sources
I have wind data that I want to use in a UVraster layer. The problem I have is that my data for the U and V components are in separate files.
While I know I could combine the U and V files into one ...
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Set MapServer label format to DD-MM-YYYY format
I have created a WMS service with MapServer using a GIS shapefile data.
The source shapefile has an attribute (EFF_Date) of type DateTime.
I want to display the EFF_Date in the label text. By default ...
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How to display locally stored raster tiles with zoom levels in MapServer
I am completely new to GIS. I am having trouble showing raster tiles from QGIS on MapServer. My goal is to have zoom level tiles shown as basemap on MapServer, on which then I can display features ...
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Providing MS_ENCRYPTION_KEY as an enviornment variable instead of a file in a mapserver mapfile
In order to use a secured WMS service in a mapfile, one can directly provide credentials as follow:
LAYER
NAME "topic-infra-service"
TYPE RASTER
STATUS ON
CONNECTION "...
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Does MapServer's .map file support more than one set of S3 credentials using VSIS3?
Is it possible to use more than one set of S3 credentials on a .map file, when using VSIS3?
Say just for visualization that .vrt files are stored on an AWS S3 bucket, while the images where .vrt ...
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MapServer 8 How to compile with MVT support
I have compiled MapServer 8.0.0 and works well, except it will not generate an MVT tile, instead, it returns this message
loadOutputFormat(): General error message. OUTPUTFORMAT (mvt) clause ...
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Create tileindex by time for MapServer
I have a directory full of GeoTiff files which cover the same geographical extent but differ in time (satellite photos). I would like to set up a WMS service with MapServer to serve those with the ...
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MapServer WMS: Not all features show, depending on how I zoom and pan
Here is how QGIS shows an irrigation network, received by MapServer via WMS and superimposed on OpenStreetMap:
Here is the same thing, but slightly panned to the right:
Several items are obviously ...
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MapServer: Labels with auto position and leader lines
I want to label points with MapServer like this:
LABEL
MAXSCALEDENOM 5001
MINSCALEDENOM 1
ALIGN right
BUFFER 1
COLOR 0 0 0
OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
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MapServer WFS Filter incorrectly maps PropertyName as Literal instead of MySQL Field
I've never used MapServer before, but have been tasked with migrating a legacy website which uses it to an updated server, including an upgrade to MapServer 7.6.2. Most stuff just works, but I'm ...
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Get rid of duplicate polygons using OpenLayers
OpenLayers 6, Mapserver 7
I have defined a vector source like this :
const presc = new ol.source.Vector({
format: new ol.format.GeoJSON(),
loader: function(extent, resolution, projection, success,...
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Showing images of large area in website with thousands of large aerial images hosted on remote server
To be able to use TMS service using GDAL2TIle, one has to make a mosaic of all of images first which is impractical given the fact that there are thousands of aerial images, each 3500x3500px large.
Is ...
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Browser-based layer editing
Does anyone know of a software that is similar in function to this Esri example:
https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/sample-code/draw-line/
But relies on other technologies apart from Esri?...
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Configuring mapserv with Oracle on Ubuntu 22.04
I am new for mapserv over Ubuntu 22.04.
I had use ms4w and there are lots of things I don't know how to configure and use.
And the first thing is compiling with Oracle
I had Oracle Client installed ok,...
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Mapserver - RGB Composite - Keep Color with exception
I am currently having the issue that I want to give my nodata-values a specific color and keep the rest of the Map in the given RGB-values.
This is my standard-Map:
I added the following statement to ...
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Blank tiles near borders of shapefile
I've generated a tileindex (.shp file) of some COG files using gdaltindex. However, when loading the shapefile through MapServer in Leaflet, some of the tiles seem to go blank partially when zooming ...
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MapServer 7 arithmetic expressions do not work on STYLE attributes
I am trying to port my code from MapServer 5 (Oracle) to MapServer 7 (PostgreSQL),
but I am encountering a issue when trying to apply arithmetic expressions in the style class.
So previously in ...
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MapServer map vizualization problem
I am new to MapServer. To make it easier to learn, I installed the OSGeoLive 14 virtual machine in VirtualBox with UBUNTU. For teaching I use both the Quick Start manual, which is part of OSGeoLive, ...
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why error msProcessProjection(): Projection library error?
I'm using mapserver in Centos 7. I'm using fgs from this (http://www.maptools.org/fgs/index.phtml?page=downloads.html). I'm using mapfile with epsg:4326, but I get error
<ServiceException> ...
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MapServer picture on specific entity
I'm using MapServer and i need to call MapServer with an URL and locate a specific feature within the GetMap mode (need a picture).
I am getting error while using QString and request=GetMap in the ...
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MapServer create multitemporal WMS with TIME enabled from raster in PostGIS
The goal in my current project is to create a WMS from a GeoTIFF raster layer that was previously uploaded to a PostgreSQL database with PostGIS enabled via "raster2pgsql". That worked out ...
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Rendering OSM data in Windows in MapServer causing error during generating Mapfile
I am following the documentation steps at https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki/RenderingOsmDataWindows. This is great documentation and everything is clear. However, I am getting the following ...
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One of the multiple layers with different extents not visible in MapServer
I have 2 layers in the map file with different extents. In QGIS, I am able to see them one over the other in proper positions. However, when I am adding those 2 layers in the map file for MapServer (...
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MapServer HTML Legend How-to
I am trying to build my first HTML legend with MapServer, but I can't find any full example.
As I understand:
mylayer.map (just after the classes END):
LEGEND
TEMPLATE "../path/mylegend.html&...
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MapServer : background buffer around labels ( GEOMTRANSFORM 'labelpoly' )
I'm struggling on MapServer trying to create better and smoother background buffer around labels using GEOMTRANSFORM 'labelpoly' function documented here https://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/mapfile/...
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MapServer WMS on-the-fly reprojection renders only partial image
When trying to access a WMS that gets on-the-fly reprojected from EPSG:2056 to EPSG:3857, I only receive partially rendered images (see image bolow). The more I zoom in, the worse it gets.
If I access ...
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Combining POINT and POLYGON Layer in mapfile
I have two layers defined in a mapfile, for displaying either polygons or points dependent on a query parameter of the accessing WMS Request.
Is it possible to combine them in a UNION layer or ...
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Problem seeding MapServer's MapCache from an ArcGIS WMS source
I have an ArcGIS Server acting as a WMS service for some data that I cannot serve any other way. The rest of our system uses either MapServer or MapCache (from the MS4W distribution) to serve our ...
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QGIS 3.24 (and 3.18) can't load WFS layer from MapServer (MS4W)
I have a MapServer (MS4W on Windows) setup with WFS in a mapfile. I cannot load WFS layers from this MapServer, they all return this warning in QGIS:
WARNING Analysis of DescribeFeatureType ...
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UMN MapServer PostGIS vector layer Background transparent
How to set background transparent in UMN Mapserver mapfile for the layer coming from postgis.
executed map file is
MAP
PROJECTION
"init=epsg:4326"
END
NAME "layername&...
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Control Point Layer Symbol placement with MapServer
I have a point layer that are representing the location and type of traffic signs. The type of sign is a number code specified for each feature within the attribute table. I also have SVG graphics of ...
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Configure layer in MapServer 7.2 with 2 dimension (time and depth)
I am trying to configure MapServer in order to serve a vector layer with 2 dimensions (time and depth) using a tileindex shapefile.
In the mapfile I define the main layer and the tileindex layer as ...
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MapServer / PostgreSQL don't display an ITEMQUERY
I try to search a string in MapServer with the method ITEMQUERY from a PostgreSQL table,. It look very simple but I receive the folow error:
msPostGISLayerWhichShapes(): Query error. Error executing ...
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Can't reference an MVT layer from Mapfile
I'm trying to add an MVT layer to my Mapfile, but it doesn't work and I ran out of ideas.
Some info about the layer I'm trying to add: https://support.regrid.com/articles/using-the-tileserver/
This is ...
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MapServer: Render labels anchored outside tile
I'm using MapServer 7.6 to render a tiled map using a custom tile grid. Therefore I cannot use MapServer's "tile mode".
I'm rendering a WMS layer that has a text label centerd on each point ...
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Why is PROJ not figuring out a CRS?
I am trying to use gdal_translate to convert a WCS source to a tif target. I am trying to achieve this using a WCS XML service description file. The gdal_translate call looks like this
"C:\...
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Setting up environment for python MapScript development
I'm trying to setup a virtual environment for developing against the Python bindings of MapScript on Windows. So far, I've tried several things in various combinations:
Install MapScript via pip ...
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MapServer raster from PostGIS fails to load
I have a PostGIS with a raster stored in a table (solardensity.density).
I want to create a map service with MapServer like this:
LAYER
NAME "raster"
TYPE raster
PROJECTION
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MapScript : Output creation date
Is it possible to make an output of the creations date in a map script file (WMS). I have a WMS service for example like this:
MAP
NAME "Basel-01"
STATUS ON
#EXTENT -137 29 -53 88
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MapServer can't draw PostGIS table
I'm using MS4W 3.0.6 (MapServer CGI 6.0.3), PostgreSQL 13 with geospatial extension (PostGIS) and pmapper 4.3.2. I can display maps perfectly in MapServer and pmapper with shapefiles, but when I try ...
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MapServer Template
I have a wms mapfile to publish routing data line. Some of the lines have the same position and lie on top of each other, but have different values. I filter the objects with the attribute "...
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MapCache not storing files
I'm using MapCache with MapServer.
When I use the link to MapCache the map is served but I look in the /tmp/mapcache directory and no files are list. I've made the /tmp/mapcache directory world ...
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Combine different geometry types in single layer in MapServer- is it possible?
I'm trying to display features with different geometry types in single LAYER. MapServer version 7.0.1 (MS4W 3.1.4). The data source is MS SQL spatial database table with geometry column, containing ...
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Mapserver - msLoadMap(): Regular expression error. MS_DEFAULT_MAPFILE_PATTERN validation failed
I am trying to use MapServer to load tiles overtop of my Google map. When hitting the endpoint, I am getting the error:
msLoadMap(): Regular expression error. MS_DEFAULT_MAPFILE_PATTERN validation ...
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How do I set the root-layer of a MapServer WMS to queryable="0"?
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Problem Summary
I want the response of all the MapServer WMS GetCapabilities requests to not show queryable="1" in the root layers XML node.
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The GetCapabilities response ...
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MapServer: How to define connection string outside of mapfile?
Is there a possibility in MapServer to store the connection string in an external file and reference it in the mapfile?
I have basic Postgres connection strings like this:
CONNECTION "user=...
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