[mapserver-dev] MS RFC 37: AUTO Projection Support

[Howard Butler]

On Feb 21, 2010, at 11:32 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> 
> A few points:
> 
> 1) What will happen if PROJECTION AUTO is used for a layer type that does
> not implement LayerGetAutoProjection?  I hope an error will be issued.

yes.

> 
> 2) Are you proposing to do the implementation for shapefile, OGR, GDAL Raster,
> ArcSDE and PostGIS?  I'd be happy to do it for GDAL Raster if you wish.
> 

I will do shapefile, SDE, PostGIS, and adapt the existing OGR/GDAL stuff.  Hopefully Jim can help with the Oracle driver

> 3) I think it would have been worth nothing that OGR and raster already
> supported AUTO though this wasn't widely used or known.  I don't anticipate
> any compatability issues with changing to this approach.

The PROJECTION block will now support AUTO as well as "AUTO", but other than that, unchanged.