[mapguide-internals] Raster Layer Default Extents

[Frank Warmerdam]

Folks,

For several weeks now I have been working towards resolving the
problem where mapguide does not recognise default extents for GDAL
based raster layers.  I have modified the raster provider in trunk (and
via local uncommitted changes in 3.2.x branch) to set the extents
returned by the SpatialContextReader properly.  However, this does not
seem to be having the desired effect in mapguide.

I have essentially confirmed that mapguide is reading back my correct
spatial extents from the spatial context reader, but when creating a new
layer they don't seem to have any effect.  Can anyone comment on why that
might be?

My process was:
  1) Install MapGuide OS 1.1.0 for windows.
  2) Build FDO from source (same tree I used for earlier fdogdal updates)
  3) Checkout out 3.2.x provider into 3.2.0 fdo tree, patch it, build and
     install it.
  4) I run mgserver interactively (so I can see extra fprintf's I embedded
     in my 32x fdo provider confirming I'm using it and it is returning what
     I expect).
  5) In studio I create a new layer using an existing gdal based data source.
     I can see via debug output that the spatial context reader is returning
     the expected values.
  6) But the layer extents are not defaulted such that I see the layer.
  7) If I create a map from that layer, the default map extents are 0,0 to 0,0.

Any thoughts?

The only two files in the fdogdal/Src/Provider directory are available at:
    http://www.gdal.org/tmp/fdo32x_gdal_patch.zip

if someone would like to try overlaying them on the fdo32x gdal provider and
testing it themselves.  In particular I'd like some confirmation about what
is happening on the mapguide side, since I'm too chicken to start debugging
there. Perhaps I really just need to build mapguide from source and go whole
hog on debugging...

Best regards,
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