What geospatial data formats can Web Maps handle?

Depending on how the mapscript system has been compiled it should handle:

  • Rasters (either GeoTiffs or images provided with a suitable world file specifying the image geometry)
  • ESRI shapefiles
  • ArcSDE
  • PostGIS

If the mapscript system has been compiled with GDAL/OGR (recommended), it should also be able to handle:

  • Mapinfo formats
  • DEM's
  • WFS etc.

See http://www.gdal.org/formats_list.html and http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/vector_data for more details.