[mapserver-users] Can the map be stretched vertically?

[Lowell.Filak]

If you happened to compile mapserver using --with-ogr you can use the OGR
libraries to access the TAB file directly which should point to out any
errors in the coversion to shape.
Lowell F.

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Bjarni Pjetursson wrote:

>
> I've taken a tab-file from MapInfo, saved it as a shp-file, and put it into
> MapServer.
>
> In MapInfo the map is square but when displaying the same map in MapServer
> the map is rectangle. The height of the map has halfed. Why is that?
>
> It seems that different companies have different idears as to how to display
> GIS data. I tried Geographic Explorer from Blue Marble Software (freeware),
> and it showed the map like MapServer do. Actually, I can only get MapInfo to
> show the map square.
>
> My customer has gotten used to the way MapInfo shows the map. Can I make
> MapServer show the map the same way?
>
> You can see the two different maps here:
> http://www.dynameks.com/cwu-btp/mapserv
> Image 1 is from MapInfo and Image 2 is from MapServer.
>
> Regards
> Bjarni Thor Pjetursson
>