[mapserver-users] WMS BBOX, etc. settings

[Tyler Mitchell]

You mentioned wms_extent, that may be all I need, but I wasn't even
familiar with that.  So I just checked out
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc36/wms-server-howto.html again and now see
that there is a long list of metadata parameters listed at the end!  Man, I
didn't see that! Duh.  I guess I was so intent on searching for bbox
parameters that never actually read the WHOLE document.  I'll try them out
and let you know if I find others.

Tyler


                                                                                                          
                      Daniel Morissette                                                                   
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Tyler Mitchell wrote:
>
> Can anyone direct me to other WMS-related METADATA I could (or should) be
> using in my Mapserver layer definitions?   I mean other than those in the
> wms-server-howto: wms_title, wms_onlineresource, wms_srs.  I'm thinking
> about things such as bbox so that more wms clients can read it.
>
> Tyler


Tyler,

Unless we overlooked one or two, what you find in the WMS SERVER HOWTO
should be what is currently supported by MapServer.

You mention providing multiple BoundingBox tags in diferent SRS for a
layer, this may be nice to have and is allowed by the WMS spec but is
not currently possible with MapServer.  I don't remember the exact
details, but I think MapServer will try to fetch the extents of a
shapefile by opening it (or use the wms_extent metadata if it's set) to
provide a BoundingBox tag in each layer's default SRS.

If there are specific WMS capabilities tags that are not currently
supported and that you think would be useful to control via the mapfile
then please file a bug about them in bugzilla and we'll try to add them
in a future release.

Daniel
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