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Web Mapping Illustrated

Errata for Web Mapping Illustrated

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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
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).

 Anonymous   
Other Digital Version 3311
Under the heading "Open the Airports Shapefile"

To clarify, I have Kindle version of this book, so the page number listed above actually points to a location number. In any event, it now appears that FWTools no longer comes packaged with the 'airports.shp' file described in the text. As a result, it's a little disappointing not being able to follow along with the text. Is it possible to locate the missing example files?

Thanks!

 Anonymous  Oct 10, 2010