Testing UMN Mapfiles with QGIS

Posted on November 16th, 2010 by pka

The Sunday night session of the QGIS hackfest resulted in a new release of the Mapfile Tools plugin.

This QGIS plugin allows you to display an UMN Mapserver mapfile in QGIS without running a Mapserver instance. It depends only on Mapscript (apt-get install python-mapscript on Debian/Ubuntu) and allows you to zoom and pan on the mapfile layer.

In release 0.6, an output window has been added, which shows error messages and detailed layer information. This makes it a convenient tool to test your mapfiles.

qgis-mapfile-tools

2 Responses to “Testing UMN Mapfiles with QGIS”

  1. Peter Hopfgartner Says:
    November 16th, 2010 at 04:01 PM

    This is really awesome. Where could I get this plugin from?

    Peter

  2. Pirmin Says:
    November 17th, 2010 at 11:41 PM

    The Mapfile Tools plugin is available from the Sourcepole repository, which is a standard 3rd party repository of QGIS. It requires QGIS 1.5 or newer.