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</style></head><body><div>Hi Killian,</div><div><br></div><div>This seems like an oversight, as for WFS MapServer explicity sets the TOLERANCE to 0 [1].</div><div>The same should be done for OGC Features. Could you raise an issue for this at <a href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues">https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues</a>?</div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Seth<br></div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/blob/abaa114c6973cc67cacd82e8a724f994a00eb785/src/mapwfs.cpp#L3016">https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/blob/abaa114c6973cc67cacd82e8a724f994a00eb785/src/mapwfs.cpp#L3016</a><br></div><div><br></div><div id="sig62266145"><div class="signature">--</div><div class="signature">web:<a href="https://geographika.net">https://geographika.net</a> & <a href="https://mapserverstudio.net">https://mapserverstudio.net</a></div><div class="signature">mastodon: @<a href="mailto:geographika@mastodon.social">geographika@mastodon.social</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>On Tue, Jun 16, 2026, at 11:42 AM, Kilian Glaus via MapServer-users wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hello everybody</div><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div id="qt-Signature" class="qt-elementToProof"><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">If I have a defined TOLERANCE on the LAYER level of a mapfile, the requested bbox of an OGC API request is increased linear with the size of TOLERANCE. Is this intended or a bug?</div><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">The problem occurs with another EPSG like 4326</div><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">When I do a WFS request with the same bbox, the TOLERANCE is ignored.</div><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Request:</b> `/ogcapi/collections/prozessraum_rutschung/items?f=json&bbox=2678483.5005230373,1286876.7365089145,2680778.0675097415,1287676.7148341944&bbox-crs=http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/2056`</div><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Request without TOLERANCE</b></div><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Processed BBOX:</b> POLYGON((2678472.83748642 1286845.70388825,2678472.83748642 1287707.7538654,2680789.0451681 1287707.7538654,2680789.0451681 1286845.70388825,2678472.83748642 1286845.70388825))</div><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Request with TOLERANCE 4</b></div><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Processed BBOX: </b>POLYGON((2670889.86292488 1275708.25617677,2670889.86292488 1298857.60050378,2688405.20300468 1298857.60050378,2688405.20300468 1275708.25617677,2670889.86292488 1275708.25617677))</div><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Request with TOLERANCE 8</b></div><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Processed BBOX: </b>POLYGON((2663334.74802645 1264580.34909246,2663334.74802645 1310016.9403732,2696049.18633325 1310016.9403732,2696049.18633325 1264580.34909246,2663334.74802645 1264580.34909246))</div><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">Best regards</div><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">Kilian</div><div class="qt-elementToProof" style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><u></u><br></div></div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>MapServer-users mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:MapServer-users@lists.osgeo.org">MapServer-users@lists.osgeo.org</a></div><div><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users</a></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>