Bbox in GetCapabilies for PostGIS layer

Jacolin Yves yjacolin at FREE.FR
Fri Oct 26 03:48:51 EDT 2007


Hi Daniel,

Great !  At least there is a workaround :)

Thanks Bart for your answer as well.

Y.
Le Thursday 25 October 2007 21:54:26 Daniel Morissette, vous avez écrit :
> The postgis implementation in MapServer may not support reading the real
> data extents automatically (I just don't know), but you should be able
> to set the ows_extent metadata in your layer to tell MapServer which
> extents to use for the BoundingBox in capabilities. By default if
> ows_extent is not specified then MapServer tries to get the extents from
> PostGIS and it seems that it returns something that's way larger than
> the actual data.
>
> Daniel
>
> Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> > Hi Yves,
> >
> > unfortunately this is not implemented for PostGIS.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Bart
> >
> > On 10/25/07, *Jacolin Yves* < yjacolin at free.fr
> > <mailto:yjacolin at free.fr>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi list,
> >
> >     I am working on an application using only OGC standards. I am
> >     successfully
> >     create my list of layer from a GetCapabilities request. I would like
> >     to add
> >     an overview for each of this layer, and so I processed the bbox,
> >     scaleHint to
> >     send a GetMap.
> >
> >     However, I have a problem with all postgis layer because the bbox
> >     for all of
> >     my bbox are something like this :
> >             <BoundingBox SRS="EPSG:27582" minx="-2.5e+07" miny="-2.5e+07"
> >     maxx="2.5e+07" maxy="2.5e+07" />
> >
> >     which is obviously incorrect.
> >
> >     My srid postgis layer is set to -1, but the data are in srid =
> >     27582. Do you
> >     think my problem come from this set up ? My projections are always
> >     set up to
> >     EPSG:27572 in my mapfile.
> >
> >     Thanks,
> >
> >     Y.
> >     --
> >     Yves Jacolin
> >     ---
> >     http://softlibre.gloobe.org



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