[Mapserver-dev] EPSG:NONE

[Ed McNierney]

Frank & Tom -

Does either EPSG or OGC have anything to say about this?  The support is
a good in concept, but I don't want to start propagating a particular
specification simply because we discovered one vendor using it.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com
ed at topozone.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Kralidis [Burlington] [mailto:Tom.Kralidis at ec.gc.ca] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 10:53 AM
To: 'Frank Warmerdam'; mapserver-dev at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: RE: [Mapserver-dev] EPSG:NONE



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:warmerdam at pobox.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 10:45 AM
> To: mapserver-dev at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: [Mapserver-dev] EPSG:NONE
> 
> 
> Folks,
> 
> Have you ever encountered anything about EPSG:NONE being a 
> valid way of describing a coordinate system not related to 
> the earth?  I see a PCI server is using this convention and I 
> am wondering if MapServer should somehow be made to support 
> it or not.  A clients application copies the EPSG strings 
> into new mapfiles when using the MapServer WMS client support.
> 

I say support it.  EPSG:NONE is good for images which are not
necessarily
spatial.  Like old maps, charts, etc.  The PCI software allows one to
output
projects as WMS layers (map, legend, chart, other info) in one bundle.
Not
really for fusion w/ other data, yet a bundled approach.

..Tom

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