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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I am running Ubuntu 12.04 with qgis (2.0.1), qgis-mapserver and libapache2-mod-fcgid packages installed using apt-get install.<br>I am trying to serve up data from gml files to a WMS client (I've also tried shape files). The source is in lat/lon EPSG:4326 projection, I've specified this same projection for the project (or at least I believe I have). Once I save the project I then use the .qgs file as my "mapfile" for the qgis mapserver. When I compare the output from<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>QGIS Server and MapServer in my WMS client I observe that the projections do not match (note the source is the same for both), I see the same distortion whether I use gml or shape files as a source. I'm confident that the result from MapServer is correct because it matches the original images from the producing software. I've attached a screen shot to this email to illustrate<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>the distortion, the green areas are from Map Server and the yellow are from QGIS Server.<br><br>Here's a snippet from the destinationsrs block:<br> <projections>1</projections><br> <destinationsrs><br> <spatialrefsys><br> <proj4>+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs</proj4><br> <srsid>3452</srsid><br> <srid>4326</srid><br> <authid>EPSG:4326</authid><br> <description>WGS 84</description><br> <projectionacronym>longlat</projectionacronym><br> <ellipsoidacronym>WGS84</ellipsoidacronym><br> <geographicflag>true</geographicflag><br> </spatialrefsys><br> </destinationsrs><br>and here's the srs block:<br> <srs><br> <spatialrefsys><br> <proj4>+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs</proj4><br> <srsid>3452</srsid><br> <srid>4326</srid><br> <authid>EPSG:4326</authid><br> <description>WGS 84</description><br> <projectionacronym>longlat</projectionacronym><br> <ellipsoidacronym>WGS84</ellipsoidacronym><br> <geographicflag>true</geographicflag><br> </spatialrefsys><br> </srs><br>and the SpatialRefSys block:<br> <SpatialRefSys><br> <ProjectCRSProj4String type="QString">+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs</ProjectCRSProj4String><br> <ProjectCrs type="QString">EPSG:4326</ProjectCrs><br> <ProjectionsEnabled type="int">1</ProjectionsEnabled><br> </SpatialRefSys><br><br>The WMS client is re-projecting to suit its needs.<br><br>Please forgive me I'm not a GIS expert my background is computer science and I work with research meteorologists so my grasp on geographic projections is not great, mathematically I get what needs to be done but I'm not familiar with all the lingo for describing them.<br><br>I'd appreaciate any insight you might have on this issue. I quite like the WYSIWYG aspect of creating the map file and would love to use the QGIS mapserver instead of MapServer, but if I can't fix this I'll have to settle I suppose. Thank-you! <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>