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+------------
+Requirements
+------------
+
+The current version of the converter only runs on Windows. This is because
+the ArcObjects JDK API is not running properly on Linux though.
+
+To run the converter you need at least the following componentes:
+
+ * Sun Java6 SDK to build, JRE to run
+ * ArcGIS Desktop10.x or ArcEngine10.x with a valid licence enabled
+ * UMN MapServer with Java MapScript-bindings (recent development-version)
+ * Apache Webserver for displaying the resulting Mapfiles
+ * Optional: MapServer compiled with ArcSDE-plugin
+ * Optional: GDAL/OGR compiled with ArcSDE-support
+ * Optional: GDAL/OGR compiled with FileGeodatabase-support 
+
+
+
+------------
+Installation
+------------
+
+Compile the converter-sources
+-----------------------------
+
+To compile the sources you need to have a properly configured
+ant-environmet available. ArcGIS SDK provides an ant-installation which
+suffices::
+
+ ant jar
+
+Install Apache Webserver
+------------------------
+
+Install Apache webserver by exedcuting the .msi-file and follow the
+install-dialogs::
+
+ httpd-2.2.19-win32-x86-openssl-0.9.8r.msi
+
+Make sure that you install apache as a service so it will be available
+directly after system bootup.
+
+
+Install UMN MapServer
+---------------------
+
+The current documentation uses the Windows binary-builds from http://www.gisinternals.com/sdk/
+
+1. Unzip the ZIP-file at c:/ms_6.1-dev
+
+#. Configure Apache Webserver to find the cgi-bin-folder::
+
+    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:/ms_6.1-dev/bin/"
+
+    <Location "/cgi-bin">
+        Options None
+        Order allow,deny
+        Allow from all
+    </Location>
+
+#. Copy mapserv.exe from c:/ms_6.1-dev/bin/apps/ms to c:/ms_6.1-dev/bin/
+
+Create run-environment
+----------------------
+
+writeme
+
+
+-----
+Usage
+-----
+
+writeme