Onder Ubuntu valt MapServer via de volgende stappen te bouwen. Netbeans kan als IDE gebruikt worden hierbij.

De source code wordt in de huidige folder uitgepakt door:

$ apt-get source cgi-mapserver

De voor bouwen benodigde pakketten worden geïnstalleerd door:

$ sudo apt-get build-dep cgi-mapserver

Bij mij werden hierbij zo'n 99 pakketten opgehaald, maar het aantal hangt natuurlijk af van wat er op het systeem aanwezig is.

When apt-get returns an error message like NO_PUBKEY F9A2F76A9D1A0061, the problem can be solved by adding a valid key:

$ gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv F9A2F76A9D1A0061
$ gpg --export --armor F9A2F76A9D1A0061 | sudo apt-key add - 

In case of a missing key from Opera:

wget -O - http://deb.opera.com/archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
 

HTML5 support of browsers can be tested at http://html5test.com. This test score is only an indication of how well your browser supports the upcoming HTML5 standard and related specifications. It does not try to test all of the new features offered by HTML5.

Having just installed MySQL under Ubuntu 10.04 on an old laptop, I noticed that the default character sets were still latin1. Since utf8 is to be preferred, the easiest way to get this is to add a small utf8.cnf file to the /etc/mysql/conf.d folder.

The file should contain something like;

[mysqld]
character-set-server=utf8
default-collation=utf8_unicode_ci

[client]
default-character-set=utf8

After restarting MySQL you should be ok. Advantage of this approach is that your modified settings are not affected on updates of MySQL.

This blog will discuss the Mapping kit modules for Drupal and how these interact with e.g. OpenLayers, Mapserver and PHP/Mapscript, shapefiles, PostgreSQL and PostGIS, etc.