[mapserver-dev] Questions regarding to the extent/scale calculations in MapServer

[Daniel Morissette]

Oh wait... re-reading my own ticket, we never added the wms_bbox_mode 
metadata that was initially suggested, what was done in the end is that 
we implemented a vendor-specific WMS GetMap param called 
BBOX_PIXEL_IS_POINT=TRUE to switch the pixel model on the fly (works for 
WMS only).

Daniel

On 13-11-27 10:37 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> FYI WorldWind also uses this PixelIsPoint model, and even worse, in
> their case they implemented their WMS client code to incorrectly send
> center of pixel coordinates in the WMS BBOX (the WMS spec says that BBOX
> coordinates are the outside of the corner pixels == PixelIsArea).
>
> So in order to allow compatibility with WorldWind when deploying
> MapServer servers for WorldWind use, we added a wms_bbox_mode param that
> does more or less what Steve suggests here, but for WMS only (and it
> indeed breaks WMS compliance).
>
> More info: https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/issues/4652
>
> Daniel
>
>
> On 13-11-27 10:27 AM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>> Steve L,
>>
>> If this would be "easy" to change internally would it make sense to
>> allow this to be configured in the mapfile. By default the behavior
>> would remain the same, but we would have an option in the map object
>> like:
>>
>> PIXELMODEL POINT|AREA
>>
>> then it would be easy for people to use what they need?
>>
>> Food for thought!
>>
>> -Steve W
>>
>> On 11/27/2013 10:15 AM, Lime, Steve D (MNIT) wrote:
>>> The model was based on how ERDAS represented pixels back when MapServer
>>> was first written. I was a satellite image processing guy at the time
>>> and that was the initial focus of the software. Early code used the
>>> ERDAS C toolkit which reinforced the model. Personally I think the
>>> center of a pixel model makes more sense.
>>>
>>> Changing would probably be **very** disruptive. Not so much within
>>> MapServer code since the areas of change are pretty isolated in a few
>>> macros and transformations in the OWS code. The change would affect
>>> every mapfile that sets or uses scale denominators. Plus, clients would
>>> need to be updated and need to be made version aware.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> *From:*mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>>> [mailto:mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Tamas
>>> Szekeres
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 27, 2013 8:54 AM
>>> *To:* mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org
>>> *Subject:* [mapserver-dev] Questions regarding to the extent/scale
>>> calculations in MapServer
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> We've already noticed MapServer use a "center of pixel" representation
>>> when doing the extent/scale calculations in the code, which may cause
>>> quite some confusion for the users (mostly from the mapscript side)
>>> regarding to the behaviour.
>>>
>>> The most typical issue I've encountered is the complain about "why
>>> mapserver modifies my accurate extent specified in setExtent and why
>>> MapServer calculates a different scale I can calculate?"
>>>
>>> The reason of why is in fact that we consider the area coverage of the
>>> image is larger than the area coverage of the map extent (half of the
>>> pixel size in each directions). But the users (and mostly everyone in
>>> the world except MapServer) considers that the area coverage of the
>>> image is the same as the area coverage of the map extent.
>>>
>>> Can someone explain why we do things this way and do we have the chance
>>> to get rid of it?
>>>
>>> We could also eliminate the unnecessary transformations done in the
>>> WMS/WCS interface where the extent of the BBOX is considered to be in -
>>> let's say - edge of pixel representation and not in center of pixel
>>> representation.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Tamas
>>>
>>>
>>>
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