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MapServer comes with much more than the standard mapserv executable file. The following programs are compiled at the same time as the mapserv file and are usually included in any MapServer installation package. MapServer is more than just a web mapping program. To demonstrate this, the chapter begins with an introduction to some command-line tools. They can be used as standalone applications for making maps without a web server. Details about each program are included.
For historical reasons, the prefix shp is used for some of the programs. They were originally created to convert shapefiles into images. Now they take a MapServer map file and output an image. Therefore, in most cases the shp prefix is a misnomer because shapefiles may not actually be involved; MapServer can access dozens of different types of data. |
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