A question of scale

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Frans,

there are so many explanations from Ed McNierney on this issue in the Mapserver archive. Among others:

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/data2/wilma/mapserver-users/0211/msg00186.html 

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/data2/wilma/mapserver-users/0208/msg00056.html 

And OGC already left the ScaleHints at WMS 1.3 ...... and replaced it with MinScaleDenominator and MaxScaleDenominator which is basically what Mapserver has. See also:

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/data2/wilma/mapserver-users/0401/msg00594.html 

Best regards,
Bart

Bart van den Eijnden
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>>> Frans Knibbe <frans at GEODAN.NL> 22-9-2005 15:11:50 >>>
Hello,

Currently I am setting minimum and maximum scales for layers and classes 
in the map file. This works leads me to the question how scale is 
defined in mapserver. I could not find it in the documentation. Does 
anyone know what is meant by scale in the context of the MINSCALE and 
MAXSCALE keywords?

And wouldn't it be better to use scalehints (as defined by the OGC) in 
stead of scale? That would also make the settings less confusing because 
MINSCALE is used for maximum scale and vice versa.

Regards,

Frans