[Mapserver-dev] Shape bounds

[Sean Gillies]

On Thursday, November 13, 2003, at 09:01  AM, Steve Lime wrote:

> Hi Folks:  Looking for opinions. In mapprimative.c lives a function
> msAddLine that is the primary code for building shapes other than
> reading directly from shapefiles. That code does not maintain a shape
> bounding box. So should the bounding box be maintained:
>
>   1) withing msAddLine
>   2) by the code making repetitive calls to msAddLine
>
> Ultimately I just want to make sure that an accurate bounding box is
> available.  Option 1 centralizes the responsibility, but option 2 is
> better for performance. After all, why set a bounding box until the 
> full
> shape is done. I'm leaning towards 2 and just fixing on part of the
> label cache code.
>
> steve
>

2

It's not so bad for a programmer to set the bounds on a shape once all
lines have been added.

Sean