Querying the extents of a layer (shapefile)

[Fawcett, David]

You can run ogrinfo on it and get the extents  

http://ogr.maptools.org/ogr_utilities.html

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Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 2:34 PM
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Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Querying the extents of a layer
(shapefile)


If I have a shapefile as a layer can I query the extents of that
shapefile from MapServer or MapScript?

Thanks for all the help you give to us poor newbies.

Chip Taylor
Prepared Response, Inc.