Reprojection

[Rob Atkinson]

Thats done the trick! Many thanks.

I'll have some interesting stuff to show the list soon - anybody else here
interested in the OpenGIS Web Mapping standards process?



Brent Fraser wrote:

> Rob,
>
>   Try putting the parameters in quotes:
>
> PROJECTION
>     "proj=utm"
>    ...
> END
>
> I was able to re-project in 2.3, but it did not
> do datum shifts.  Neither does 3.211 (there's
> no code in Proj4 nor Mapserver to do datum
> shifts).
>
> If there's a big enough demand, I might be able
> to find some source code for the Molodensky
> datum transformation...
>
> Brent Fraser
>
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rob Atkinson <rob at socialchange.net>
> To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 1999 6:34 PM
> Subject: Reprojection
>
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > does anybody have information regarding the use of PROJ.4 within the
> > latest Mapserver (3.211).
> >
> > Trying to use the same technique as per Fornet 2.3 creates a lexical
> > scanning error on the "=" signs. Looking at the code I suspect this is a
> > problem in 3.211 map file parsing.
> >
> > PROJECTION
> > proj=utm
> > ...
> > END
> >
> > Also, with 2.3 I was unable to make the thing reproject when all I
> > wanted to do was a datum shift. Any clues on how to force it, and is
> > this problem fixed in 3.2?
> >
> > Regards
> > --
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> ------
> >
> > Rob Atkinson
> > rob at socialchange.net
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> >
> >
> >

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Rob Atkinson                                                rob at socialchange.net

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