Issues for MapServer extensions

[Jan Schüngel]

Hi,
thanks for your comments.

I write my answers directly behind the numbers.

Greets
 Jan S.

>1. When creating .map files, there should be a comment
>at the beginning of the file that this has been
>automatically created by the Thuban UMN Mapserver extension.
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I will try this, but the mapscript-saver don't support this, so I must
open the map file manuell and write the text inside. I try it.

>2. I have problems creating a .map file from
>iceland_sample_class.thuban (but happens with all iceland
>sampes):
>  An unhandled exception occurred:
>  msInitGDALOutputFormat(): General error message. No GDAL driver named
>  `GTiff' available.
>What do I need to do to avoid this?
>Hmm: This problem occurs only if I first load a mapfile,
>the load another session. If I start with loading a session
>and then storing this as a mapfile all works fine.
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I know this problem but I don't know how to solve it.
For any idea I last very gratefully

>3. I improved the README a little bit as it can be avoided
>to make a installation as root which some people (like me)
>do not want.
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ok its fine :)

>4. There are some error message when importing the sample
>map file. Are you working on this?
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O, I don't see any error messages when importing the sample mapfile. Can
you send me an error log so I can look what's wrong ?

>5. If I export the iceland_sample_class.thuban as a .map-file
>and import that again, the projection is lost. The rest
>looks identical - very nice.
>What about the projection?
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In this case the problem is, that the layer need an projection to show 
in the mapserver.
If there is no projection defined the layer will not shown. But if I set 
the layer in this
case during the export, the set projection will be imported, too. I will 
look how to solve this.

>Best
>
>	Jan
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