[mapserver-users] getting min/max extents

[klehr1 at tampabay.rr.com]

Also in the demo there's a perl script showextent.pl I believe works as
well.  Attached here.  You have to compiled the perl stuff.  I modified two
lines in the script to so that you use is ./showextent.pl <SHAPEFILE>


----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel Morissette <morissette at dmsolutions.ca>
To: Jim Burnett <jimburnett at ntelos.net>
Cc: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 11:05 AM
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] getting min/max extents


> > Jim Burnett wrote:
> >
> > Is there a small application that can tell me the min and max extents
> > for a shape file?
> >
>
> If you have OGR/GDAL installed on your system then the OGRINFO program
> can return you the extents of a layer.  See the OGRINFO examples at
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc/ogr-howto.html#ogrinfo
>
> Also, a getExtent() method has been added to the shapeFileObj class in
> MapScript version 3.5 (Perl or PHP)... so that's another option.
>
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