[mapserver-users] Re: Mapserver Projection Errors

Daniel Morissette dmorissette at mapgears.com
Wed Oct 19 16:32:15 EDT 2011


If you could produce a small testcase that reproduces the issue then it 
may be easier to help. Just a mapfile may be sufficient for testing the 
GetCapabilities.


On 11-10-19 04:06 PM, SixDegrees wrote:
> That's correct. If I use the "init=epsg:4326" form, no error is thrown;
> errors only appear when I use the Proj.4 strings, even if they correspond to
> the same projection.
>
> As I understand things, Mapserver only requires the map-level projection to
> be in epsg format; individual layers can have projections defined in any
> other way Mapserver understands, and when a WMS request is made the layer
> will be reprojected to the projections defined at the map level on the fly.
> In fact, this seems to happen; as noted, the XML for each layer in the
> GetCapabilities response (which produces the errors) contains bounding boxes
> that have all been correctly reprojected into epsg:4326 even when the layer
> itself is in, for example, a UTM projection defined by a Proj.4 string.
>
> So I'm thinking that this is a Mapserver mistake, and the error messages are
> spurious. It certainly seems that way, but it would be nice to have a
> definitive answer.
>
>
>
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