Mapping Hacks

Tyler Mitchell, the author of O’Reilly’s Web Mapping Illustrated, an excellent practical guide to building your own open source web mapping applications with the Mapserver package, has started a new blog at spatialguru.com.
In these intense times of governance, licensing and access policy discussions, Tyler’s essays into geek humour provide welcome light relief. And he promises […]

A bona fide mapscript recipe this time, on annotating features with python/mapscript. Some of it may be a little cargo-culted.
This only describes about 1/3 of my recent mapscript adventures, but i’m
trying to create some distributable code and do a python rewrite of map.wirelesslondon at the moment…

As i learn more about mapserver and mapscript, I keep feeling compelled to contribute docs of some kind to it; sometimes it’s taken a lot of digging around in the API docs and source to figure out what i want to do.
Today i turned a couple of my mapservers into Web Feature Service servers and […]

Number one in a series of some: a perl mapscript recipe. The rough aim is to present more of these during the ascent of the mapserver learning curve.