[mapserver-users] Projecting coordinates without drawing maps?

[Ray Collett]

My script will be run very infrequently (a couple times a day), but within
the script I expect to reproject several thousand points each time.  I
assume the dictionary lookup occurs only when ms_newprojectionobj() is
called and not when $poPoint->project() is called?  As long as that's the
case, then I'm good.

It's nice to get some insight as to how mapserver is working though.
Thanks.

-Ray

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Paul Spencer <pspencer at dmsolutions.ca>
wrote:

> Note that the method of using init=<dictionary>:<value> is still
> inefficient for mapserver because proj has to parse the rather large epsg
> file to find the appropriate proj string.  If you are just doing some
> one-off translations then no big deal obviously, but if you are setting up a
> service to reproject or are setting up a map file with projections, then it
> can make quite a big difference.
>


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