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# Section 1: Static Maps and the MapFile

- Take a Shapefile dataset. Any Shapefile dataset. We can use MapServer to display that Shapefile dataset in a web browser. Look…

  - Example 1.1 - A map with a single layer

- We can display the same Shapefile dataset repeatedly. We can display the polygon attributes in one LAYER and the line attributes in another…

  - Example 1.2 - A map with two layers

- And we can select which parts of the Shapefile dataset to display. We do this using the CLASS object…

  - Example 1.3 - Using classes to make a “useful” map

- We can also label our maps…

  - Example 1.4 - Labeling layers and label layers

- Or add raster data such as satellite images, aerial photographs, or shaded reliefs…

  - Example 1.5 - Adding a raster layer

- We can reproject our data from just about any projection to just about any… Yeah, check it out!

  - Example 1.6 - Projection/Reprojection

- And we can use layers from other map servers on the Internet (for example WMS servers)…

  - Example 1.7 - Adding a WMS layer

- MapServer can output to various formats such as PDF and GeoTIFF.

  - Example 1.8 - A different output format

- MapServer not only generates static maps, it can also create interactive maps…

  - Example 1.9 - The difference between map mode and browse mode

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