20 This hands-on workshop is intended as an introduction to Web mapping with the University of Minnesota MapServer. The participants will go through the process of setting up a MapServer environment which includes configuring a Web server and creating a MapServer application. The creation of a MapServer application will include step-by-step examples of building a map file, including defining the WEB object, the LAYER objects, and assigning symbology to these objects. Once a map file is created, the participants will then go through the process of creating a web-based interface. Important MapServer and Web mapping concepts will be discussed throughout the workshop. A significant portion of the workshop will involve accessing data from several different data types and incorporating them into a MapServer map file. FOSS4G2006 - Free And Open Source Software for Geoinformatics Workshop Session 2 Jeff McKenna jmckenna@dmsolutions.ca Pericles Nacionales nacional@cbs.umn.edu Tyler Mitchell tjm@timberline.ca Jeff McKenna jmckenna@dmsolutions.ca Pericles Nacionales nacional@cbs.umn.edu Tyler Mitchell tjm@timberline.ca <MaKaC.conference.ContributionType object at 0xb4937e2c> [WKS] Workshop