Extents of a raster image

[Brent Fraser]

As Steve had pointed out, MapServer looks for
an extension of wld for the world file (the tfw
thing works for some ESRI products).


----- Original Message -----
From: Cameron Shorter <camerons at cat.org.au>
To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 5:40 AM
Subject: Re: Extents of a raster image


> At 08:20 AM 22-07-99 -0600, Brent Fraser wrote:
> >http://www.mentorsoftwareinc.com/FREEBIE/FREE0699.HTM
> >reads and writes geotiffs and world files.
>
> Thanks Brent, I checked out this package. It was simple, putting geo data
> in a tiff file or .tfw file.  Just what I wanted.
>
> I have successfully added a geotif file to my map now, however using a
> standard .tif file and .tfw file didn't work.  This doesn't particularly
> worry me as I have something working.  I'm just mentioning it in case it
is
> a bug.
>
> My .map file contained:
>
> LAYER
>   NAME "topo25k"
>   TYPE RASTER
>   STATUS ON
>   DATA topo25k.tif
>   #OFFSITE 0
> END # Layer
>
> The geotiff file can be found at:
> http://www.cat.org.au/bikeast/camerons/topo25k.tif
>
> The same file without geo data can be found at:
> http://www.cat.org.au/bikeast/camerons/topo25k.tif.bak
>
> and the top25k.tfw file contains:
>                 8.2e-005
>                        0
>                        0
>               -9.01e-005
>                 151.1703
>                 -33.8657
>
>
> Cameron Shorter
> 61.2.9901-1596 work.
>