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| Version |
Location |
Description |
Submitted By |
| Printed |
Page 26
middle |
Arc/Info Binary Grid (.adf) repeated
P.S. your 9780596008659.confirmed page has mangled reports for p. 179-180
|
Anonymous |
| Printed |
Page 84
example 6-11 |
For the command,
ogrinfo data airports | grep ` NAME'
Replace inverted commas ' NAMES' by quotation marks " NAMES"
|
Anonymous |
| Printed |
Page 85
The first example |
For the example,
ogrinfo data airports | grep ' NAME' | wc -1
In the end, it is difficult to understand that it is the letter l,& not the number 1.
|
Anonymous |
| Printed |
Page 179
example 11-2, action value of form tag |
action="/cgi-bin/mapserv"
does not work with MS4W. I had to change it to
action="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe"
|
Anonymous |
| Printed |
Page 181
example 11-3, action value of form tag |
action="/cgi-bin/mapserv"
does not work with MS4W. I had to change it to
action="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe"
|
Anonymous |
| Printed |
Page 198
Example 11-8. "Adding a layer of labels to the map" line 17 |
As printed on page 198 (Example 11-8), line 17:
...
PROJECTION
"proj=latlong"
"proj=WGS84" # line 17
END
...
Should read(?):
...
PROJECTION
"proj=latlong"
"ellps=WGS84" # changes here?
END
...
User comment:
In this case the map file example ("global.map") does work as printed. However, based
on the Example 11-5 ("Setting projection of the map and source layers") shown on page
187, the example shown here on page 198 is at a minimum inconsistent and if the
"LAYER" were in a different projection (not in decimal degrees) it would most likely
not display correctly (perhaps this may depend on which version of MapServer is in
use. In this case the examples were used with MapServer version 4.8.0.b1).
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Anonymous |
"If you want to create and edit personal map data...convert map data from one format to another...[or] do anything with maps stored in digital format, this is the book to have."
--Major Keary, PC Update
