# MapServer 5.x Tutorial ### Section 1: Static Maps and the MapFile Take a shapefile. Any shapefile. We can use MapServer to display that shapefile on a web browser. Look... Example 1.1 - A map with a single layer We can display the same shapefile repeatedly. We can display the polygon attributes on one LAYER and and the line attributes on another... Example 1.2 - A map with two layers And we can select which parts of the shapefile 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 (as long as they are 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 and browse mode Back to Sections Page | Proceed to the First Example | Go to Section 2