Section 1: Static Maps and the MapFile¶

Take a shapefile. Any shapefile. We can use MapServer to display that shapefile on a web browser. Look...
- Example 1.1 - A map with a single layer
We can display the same shapefile repeatedly. We can display the polygon attributes on one LAYER and and the line attributes on another...
- Example 1.2 - A map with two layers
And we can select which parts of the shapefile to display. We do this using the CLASS object...
- Example 1.3 - Using classes to make a “useful” map
We can also label our maps...
- Example 1.4 - Labeling layers and label layers
Or add raster data such as satellite images, aerial photographs, or shaded reliefs...
- Example 1.5 - Adding a raster layer
We can reproject our data from just about any projection to just about any... Yeah, check it out!
- Example 1.6 - Projection/Reprojection <example1-6
And we can use layers from other map servers on the internet (as long as they are WMS servers)...
- Example 1.7 - Adding a WMS layer
MapServer can output to various formats such as PDF and GeoTIFF.
- Example 1.8 - A different output format
MapServer not only generates static maps, it can also create interactive maps...
- Example 1.9 - The difference between map and browse mode