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Setting up Windows to Handle On-The-Fly Projections with MapServer / MapScript
Note: Installer packages such as MS4W contain Proj ready-to-use.
by Chip Hankley and Frank Warmerdam
MapServer supports on-the-fly projections using the PROJ4 library. See:
Using Prebuilt Binaries
- Grab ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/proj/proj446_win32_bin.zip and unpack it, if possible under the root in C:\. This creates a C:\PROJ directory.
- If you had to unpack it somewhere else, you will need to set the PROJ_LIB environment variable to point to the NAD directory within it. eg. SET PROJ_LIB=D:\Software\PROJ_446\NAD
- Either add the C:\PROJ\BIN directory to your path, or copy C:\PROJ\BIN\PROJ.DLL to somewhere appropriate, like wherever your MAPSERV.EXE is.
You should be good to go, with access to the "epsg" init file, and the various standard NAD27/NAD83 grid shift files.
Building From Source
Set up PROJ4 on a Windows box by doing the following:
- Download the latest PROJ4 source from http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/.
- Un-compress the source documents to the C: drive. The default parent folder will end up being something like C:\PROJ-4.X.X, where the 4-X.X refers to the version. You should rename the parent folder to PROJ.
- If you want to support NAD27 to NAD83 datum shifts, also download the US and Canadian datum shift grids from the same site (this should come packaged as a single archive - Zip or Tar). Un-compress this file to the C:\PROJ\NAD directory.
- Compile PROJ4.
Using Microsoft Visual C++, you would do the following:
C:\proj\src>"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\Vc7\bin\vcvars32.bat" C:\proj\src>nmake /f makefile.vc nadshift
Note that the first line simply sets the environment variable for doing command-line compiling using Microsoft Visual C++. The second line compiles the program AND specifies that you want PROJ4 to be configured to support NAD shifting.