​MapServer is an open source platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web. MapServer allows you to render data from TileDB arrays and combine other sources and formats such as GeoJSON to render cartographic quality maps.
Installation
You can run the MapServer and TileDB examples as follows;
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docker run -it --rm -u 0 -v /local/path:/data tiledb/tiledb-geospatial /bin/bash
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MapServer configuration
We will use the following MapServer mapfile;
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MAP
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IMAGETYPE PNG
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SIZE 400300
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EXTENT -77.8751 34.1472 -77.7869 34.267
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CONFIG "TILEDB_CONFIG""./aws.config"
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PROJECTION
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"init=epsg:4326"
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END
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WEB
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METADATA
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"wms_title""TileDB tutorial"
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"wms_onlineresource""https://myhost/mapserv"
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"wms_enable_request""*"
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END
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END
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LAYER
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NAME "tiledb_coastal"
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TYPE RASTER
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DATA "s3://tiledb-mapserver/tiledb_mosaic"
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CONNECTIONOPTIONS
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"TILEDB_CONFIG""aws.config"
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END
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OFFSITE 000
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PROJECTION
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"init=epsg:4326"
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END
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METADATA
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"wms_title""TileDB Sample 2017 NOAA NGS Ortho-rectified Oblique Imagery of the East Coast"
As in our TileDB and GDAL tutorials, we store the S3 credentials in an aws.config file. Note that this aws.config file should be stored in a location that is accessible by your web server but is not public.
To test rendering a map with MapServer we use the shp2img command;