GeoLabs

Alessandro Pasotti has authored a utility to output mapserver layers as KML for display on Google Earth. This is written in PHP mapscript so will require mapscript to be installed with your standard Mapserver installation. Check it out here.
Although its a useful tool, it would be nice to have kml support in mapserver (C++) out [...]

Some great news for those interested in the convergence between Ruby/Rails and Geospatial applications. Kashif and I will be giving a tutorial at RailsConf in Berlin. There is going to be 3 hr tutorial titled Rails GIS Hacks, where we will be going through some pretty nifty stuff such as RESTful geospatial applications development. [...]

Just heard that libTiff which is used in GDAL for GeoTiff support has found sponsors to implement BigTiff support. This will mean an end to the 4Gig limitation of GeoTiffs. These changes to libTiff will filter down to GDAL and a number of Open Source Geospatial packages like Mapserver. The detailed implementation plan can be [...]

The release of Mapserver (version 4.8.4) fixed some bugs that mapscript developers may be interesed in. Nomad servers are now running the latest release. Check out the release notes here.

Yes i know that looks like ArcGIS… that’s because it is. I did a screen cast of what we (Minh & myself) have manged to complete of the WCS client its far from finished. The image below is from the part where i opened the downloaded data in ArcGIS to process.
Enjoy this for now, [...]

… announcing yet another take on getting PostGIS working with Ruby on Rails. Our goal (well, one of them) is to make it easy to arrange for web-based presentation of geographic data, with mouse-sensitive polygons, line-strings, and the like. The code is still quite new, but it’s to the point that other people [...]

As I said in my last post one of the topics of discussion at the melbourne’s Mapserver users group meeting was the uptake of OGC standards by the OSS community. Here’s an example of OSS taking lead in implementing upcoming open standards: the current CVS version has has already implemented partial support for Sensor Observation [...]

Well eventually someone was gonna ask this. Can you connect to MS-SQL using Mapserver? Of course thanks to GDAL/OGR anything is possible. OGR’s Virtual Spatial Data can be used to connect to SQL Server database. http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_vrt.html
One can connect via OGR ODBC driver directly by creating a view with an additional WKT column from your x, [...]

For those new to creating mapfiles Tydac have a nice set of examples that won’t intimidate you HERE