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Training MapServer: deployment and configuration

MapServer is an Open Source platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web.

MapServer is a robust application with a very large community of users and projects.

In addition to its Open Source nature, MapServer is distinguished from other mapping engines for its ability to handle very many formats of cartographic data, the quality of its graphics rendering, its richness in terms of symbology and its processing speed.
 

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Dates and locations

Trainings can take place in our offices. Please contact us. 

Private training sessions can also be organized across Europe upon request

 

Target audience and prerequisites
 

  • GIS managers
  • Basic knowledge in geomatics
     
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Goals

  • Know the features, characteristics and limitations of Mapserver
  • Learn implement MapServer as a mapping engine in a GIS project
  • Be autonomous with the configuration of MapFile and integration of heterogeneous GIS data

Price
 

  • Public training in France or Switzerland: please contact us
  • Private training: please contact us
  • From 700 € or 900 CHF / day / trainee (for other currency, please contact us)

Camptocamp curriculum

Lecture content/Topics

Day 1

Presentation of MapServer

Installation

Configuration of the main objects of MapFile

  • Map-level settings
  • Setting layers
  • Styles

Access to multiple data sources

  • Native raster
  • Native vector
  • OGR/GDAL Interface
  • Spatial databases (PostGIS)
  • Tileindex
  • WMS / WFS

Day 2

Thematic classification

  • Simple vector classification
  • Complex vector classification
  • Raster Classification

Symbology

  • Vector and Ellipse Symbols
  • Pixmap Symbols
  • TrueType Symbols
  • Hatch Symbols

Day 3

Implementation of OGC Web Services

  • WMS Serveur
  • WFS Serveur

Coupling with OpenLayers

Implementation of MapCache/MapProxy

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Yves Jacolin

Training & Support Manager

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Additional training

This training can be accompanied by the PostGIS, OpenLayers and/or PostgreSQL training

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