Limiting the viewable extent...

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Steve,

I may be confusing this with a feature of ka-map, but I'm not sure. 
Steve L do you know if there is such a feature in mapserver?

-Steve W

ps: lots of Steve is confusing!

Steve Hall wrote:
> Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>> Steve Hall wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Is it possible to restrict the users viewable extent of the map 
>>> through the map file?  For example, I have data loaded for the whole 
>>> of the country but I want it to be impossible for any client tool to 
>>> view data beyond a defined and fixed extent.
>>>
>>> The EXTENT parameters just seem to set the initial extent and you can 
>>> easily zoom out beyond this extent.
>>>
>>> I appreciate this is fairly easy to do through code but though that 
>>> if this was possible via a mapfile then it would be done at the 
>>> 'lowest' level...
>>
>> Yes, I believe you can do it by setting METADATA values for the MAP 
>> object. I just check the mapfile reference and it is not described 
>> there. Could you please write a documentation bug to request all 
>> METADATA controls be documented.
>>
>> -Steve W.
>>
> Thanks for this Steve, do you happen to know off hand any of the 
> relevant keywords to this problem (to get me started).  I could take a 
> look through the code and dig deeper if I have somewhere to start.   
> This will also enable me to file a more accurate and useful bug...
> 
> Cheers,
> Steve H