Mapserver Postgis driver problem with EWKB

Tamas Szekeres szekeres.tamas at FREEMAIL.HU
Tue Nov 22 17:28:25 EST 2005


It seems that the OGR postgis driver does not suffer with this problem

Tamas




On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:04:17 -0600, Tamas Szekeres
<szekeres.tamas at FREEMAIL.HU> wrote:

>Hi list,
>
>Mapserver postgis driver unable to read geometries with embedded SRID.
>(For example after using ogr2ogr with -a_srs parameter to load data into a
>postgis table).
>
>I haven't found a documentation about postgis EWKB representation but it
>seems that it stores extra information in the upper bits of the geometry
>type (eg. SRID presence flag) which have't taken into account by
>mapserver, so the geometries will not displayed.
>
>
>Could anyone forward me to the right direction solving this problem?
>
>
>Tamas Szekeres



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