FW: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Upgrade Problems - Additional Info

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

Assefa,

http://dl.maptools.org/dl/mapserver-4.6.1-win32-php5.0.5.zip still has
an older gdal in there.  Can we get an updated distro with GDAL 1.3 and
PHP 5.0.5 / MapServer 4.6.1?

..Tom


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yewondwossen Assefa [mailto:assefa at dmsolutions.ca] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 26 October, 2005 14:31
> To: Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]
> Cc: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] FW: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] 
> Upgrade Problems - Additional Info
> 
> 
> Tom,
> 
> I have upgraded the php/mapscript download site with new windows 
> binaries (http://www.maptools.org/php_mapscript/).
> 
> Later,
> 
> Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:
> > Everyone,
> > 
> > Follow up to this thread.
> > 
> > It seemed that an updated gdal fixed this issue.  The gdal 
> used with 
> > the distro Tim was using was 1.2.6.
> > 
> > Having said this, where can one fetch a Win32 dist of 
> MapServer 4.6.1 
> > / PHP 5.0.5 / GDAL 1.3.1 ?  I'm guessing this will be a hot 
> item (alot 
> > of my stakeholders share Tim's type of configuration and connection 
> > bindings).
> > 
> > Thanks for Frank and Tim for their guidance and testing support.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > ..Tom
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: UMN MapServer Users List 
> [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] 
> > On Behalf Of Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]
> > Sent: Monday, 17 October, 2005 12:29
> > To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> > Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Upgrade Problems - 
> Additional Info
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >>
> >>On 10/17/05, Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] 
> <Tom.Kralidis at ec.gc.ca> wrote:
> >>
> >>>Is or has something happened to the way the .ovf or underlying OGR 
> >>>process handles precision of coordinates when doing 
> spatial filters?
> >>
> >>Tom,
> >>
> >>I haven't dug through the previous emails closely to see 
> what is going 
> >>on, but I thought I should answer this.
> >>
> >>There has been a substantial improvement in the amount of precision 
> >>OGR maintains for WKT and GML encodings of geometries.  The changes 
> >>were applied a couple months ago.
> >>They are definately in GDAL/OGR 1.3.1 and might be in 1.3.0.
> >>
> >>OGR spatial filtering will also now use GEOS if built-in.  It is 
> >>possible that some "on the edge" situations would give different 
> >>results now compared to in the past.
> >>
> >>I'm not sure if any of this relates to the problem you are seeing 
> >>though.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks for the info.  I don't think these instances are 
> using WKT/GML 
> > as input or output, if that's what you mean.  Basic .ovf 
> connection to 
> > provide WMS output.  Is there anything we can do on our end to help 
> > with this issue?  The problem is basically:
> > 
> > ENVIRONMENT
> > ===========
> > 
> > OS: Win32
> > MapServer: 4.6.1 windows dist (non ms4w package from
> > http://maptools.org/dl)
> > Layer Data connection: OGR .ovf connection to M$ SQL Server 2000
> > 
> > SCENARIO 1
> > ==========
> > 
> > - invoke OGC:WMS GetMap request against said layer with coordinates 
> > formatted with 8 decimals
> > 
> > 
> http://cabin.cciw.ca/cabin_ows.asp?version=1.1.1&service=WMS&request=G
> > et
> > 
> Map&layers=CABINPoints&styles=&bbox=-141.00000000,35.18749999,
> -51.999999
> > 99,90.81250000&format=image/png&srs=EPSG:4326&width=500&height=300
> > 
> > Result: works
> > 
> > SCENARIO 2
> > ==========
> > 
> > - invoke OGC:WMS GetMap request against said layer with coordinates 
> > formatted with 9 decimals
> > 
> > 
> http://cabin.cciw.ca/cabin_ows.asp?version=1.1.1&service=WMS&request=G
> > et
> > 
> Map&layers=CABINPoints&styles=&bbox=-141.000000002,35.18749999
> 8,-51.9999
> > 
> 99997,90.812500001&format=image/png&srs=EPSG:4326&width=500&height=300
> > 
> > Result: watch server timeout ensue
> > 
> > NOTES
> > =====
> > - this does not exist when the layer data connection is a 
> shapefile, 
> > for example
> > 
> > ..Tom
> > 
> > 
> 
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