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# Example1-1.map

    # The annotated map file (sort of)
    # Created by Pericles S. Nacionales for the MapServer tutorial
    # 20050408
    #
    # MapServer map file uses the pound sign (#) to denote the start of a line
    # comment--each line that needs to be commented has to be prepended with a "#".
    #
    # Map files begin with MAP keyword to signify the start of the map object.
    # Well, the entire map file is THE map object.  Enclosed between MAP and END
    # at the very bottom of this map file, are keyword/value pairs and other
    # objects.
    MAP
      IMAGETYPE      PNG
      EXTENT         -97.238976 41.619778 -82.122902 49.385620
      SIZE           400 300
      SHAPEPATH      "/ms4w/apps/tutorial/data"
      IMAGECOLOR     255 255 255

      # Layer objects are defined beneath the map object.  You need at least one
      # layer defined in your map file before you can display a map...  You can
      # define as many layers as you'd like although a limit is typically hard-coded
      # in map.h in the MapServer source.  The default limit is set at 100.  You'd
      # have to have a very specialized application to need more than 100 layers in
      # your application.

      # Start of LAYER DEFINITIONS ---------------------------------------------
      LAYER # States polygon layer begins here
        NAME         states
        DATA         states_ugl
        STATUS       OFF
        TYPE         POLYGON

        # The class object is defined within the layer object.  You can define as
        # many classes as you need (well, there are limits as with layers, but it's
        # senseless to define more than ten on a "normal" layer.  There are
        # situations, however, where you might have to do it.)
        CLASS
          NAME       "The Upper Great Lakes States"

          # There are styles in a class, just like there are classes in a layer,
          # just like there are layers in a map.  You can define multiple styles in
          # a class just as you can define multiple classes in a layer and multiple
          # layers in a map.
          STYLE
            COLOR        232 232 232
            OUTLINECOLOR 32 32 32
          END
        END
      END # States polygon layer ends here
      # End of LAYER DEFINITIONS -------------------------------

    END # All map files must come to an end just as all other things must come to...