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This article is part of a series on Web GIS in practice, edited by Maged Kamel Boulos.

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Web GIS in practice IV: publishing your health maps and connecting to remote WMS sources using the Open Source UMN MapServer and DM Solutions MapLab

Maged N Kamel Boulos* 1 email and Kiyoshi Honda* 2 email

1Faculty of Health and Social Work, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AA, UK

2Remote Sensing and GIS Field of Study, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Pathumthani 12120, Thailand

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

International Journal of Health Geographics 2006, 5:6doi:10.1186/1476-072X-5-6

Published: 18 January 2006

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Step-by-step tutorial – publishing your maps and connecting to remote WMS sources using the Open Source UMN MapServer and DM Solutions MapLab. An illustrated step-by-step tutorial to help interested readers running mainstream Microsoft® Windows machines, and with no prior experience in Web GIS or Internet map servers, to publish their own health maps on the Web and add to those maps additional layers retrieved from remote WMS servers.

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