[Mapserver-users] Reading in Projections from layer data files

Tyler Mitchell TMitchell at lignum.com
Mon Apr 26 17:22:15 EDT 2004


> Perry is mostly right, but there are a few exceptions.  For OGR vector
> sources, and GDAL raster sources, you can use the special "AUTO" keyword
> in the projection object.  This means that the projection should be
> read from the datasource itself if possible.

Thanks for the clarification Frank, I knew you wouldn't ignore 
projections!

> I see this isn't even described in the mapfile reference, OGR howto or
> the raster howto.  Yikes - essentially an invisible feature.

Whew - it wasn't a dumb question after all :)

Tyler





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