Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Creating WMS and WFS services with
MapServer
In this recipe, you will see how to create a
Web Map Service
(
WMS
) and
Web
Feature Service
(
WFS
) from a PostGIS layer, using the popular MapServer open-
source web-mapping engine.
You will then use the services, testing their exposed requests, using first a browser
andthenadesktoptoolsuchasQGIS(youcoulddothisusingothersoftware,such
as uDig, gvSIG, and OpenJUMP GIS).
Getting ready
Follow these steps beforegetting ready:
1. Create a schema for this chapter within the
postgis_cookbook
database
using the following command:
postgis_cookbook=# create schema chp09;
2. BesuretohaveApacheHTTP installed (MapServerwillrunonitasaCGI),
and check whether or not it is working by visiting its home page at
ht-
tp://localhost
(typically, an "It works!" message will be displayed if you
still have not customized any features).
3. InstallMapServerasperitsinstallationguide(
http://mapserver.org/en/install-
ation/
).
Note
AhandywaytohaveMapServerupandrunninginApacheforWindows
is to install the OSGeo4W (
http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/
) or MS4W (
ht-
tp://www.maptools.org/ms4w/
)
packages.
For Linux, there are packages for almost any kind of distribution.
