WMS Capabilities: LatLonBoundingBox

[Arnaud Diederen]

Hi Angus,

I'm not using PostGIS layers; this is the Itasca demo for mapserver 4.x, 
and putting the PROJECTION param fixes it, indeed!
I wonder why it is not put (uncommented, actually) in the vanilla demo 
package. Is there a reason?

Thank you very much for the information!

Best regards,

           Arnaud

Angus Dickey wrote:

>I am having a similar problem. Apparently Mapserver will automatically calculate the bounding box if you define it using epsg codes in the map file ex:
>
>PROJECTION
>  "init=epsg:4269"
>END
>
>This works for me when I use shapefiles, i.e. it calculates the correct bounding box in the right coordinates, however all my Postgis layers end up with a bounding box of:
>
>minx="-2.5e+07" miny="-2.5e+07" maxx="2.5e+07" maxy="2.5e+07"
>
>Are youusing postgis layers? Does anybody know how to get mapserver to calculate the correct bounding box for postgis layers?
>
>Thanks for any help,
>
>~Angus
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Arnaud Diederen [mailto:ad at IONICSOFT.COM] 
>Sent: June 15, 2006 7:17 AM
>To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] WMS Capabilities: LatLonBoundingBox
>
>Hello,
>
>I'm absolutely new to mapserver, so I downloaded the demo for the 4.x 
>version (I'm using Debian GNU/Linux).
>The demo pages work ok, but when I do a GetCapabilities operation 
>(http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?service=WMS&version=1.3&map=/var/www/workshop/itasca.map&request=GetCapabilities 
>- local intranet, sorry :( ), I get the attached XML document.
>What I'm wondering is why the LatLonBoundingBox tags holds those values, 
>since they are supposed to be in 4326, if I read the WMS spec right.
>
>Am I doing something wrong?
>
>I looked the archives, and googled the internet, but I couldn't find any 
>help on this exact topic.
>I would definitely appreciate if somebody could provide any kind of 
>help; would it be just pointers on what I have to do/fix.
>
>Best regards,
>
>         Arnaud
>  
>