March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
584 pages
14h 31m
English
book
PostGIS Cookbook - Second Edition
by Stephen Vincent Mather, Pedro Wightman, Bborie Park, Thomas Kraft, Mayra Zurbarán, Paolo Corti
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Getting ready
Follow these steps before getting ready:
- Create a schema for this chapter within the postgis_cookbook database using the following command:
postgis_cookbook=# create schema chp09;
- Be sure to have Apache HTTP installed (MapServer will run on it as a CGI) and check whether it is working by visiting its home page at http://localhost (typically, an It works! message will be displayed if you still have not customized any features).
- Install MapServer as per its installation guide (http://mapserver.org/installation/index.html).
A handy way to have MapServer up and running in Apache for Windows is to install the OSGeo4W (http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/) or MS4W (http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/) packages. For Linux, there are packages ...