[mapserver-dev] Using mapserver with non-projected raster files

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Mon Mar 8 12:15:40 EST 2010


Jan Hartmann wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been using MapServer for a long time to display raw raster files 
> without projection information, to get control points for 
> georeferencing. Up to MS 4.10.5, this was no problem, but with 5.6.0 
> mapserv hangs: no error, the application just doesn't finish. Is this a 
> bug or is MapServer meant to work with projected files only nowadays? If 
> so, there should be an error message, but I would prefer the old behavior

Jan,

It is not intentional that MapServer not work with ungeoreferenced rasters.
If you could construct a small simple demonstration of the issue and file
a ticket assigned to me I'll dig into it.

Best regards,
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