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

[Pericles S. Nacionales]

It looks like MapInfo stretches the data to fit a square view...  at
least from the way the images look.  Of course, I'm assuming geographic
projection. :)  Do you happen to know what the default projection in
MapInfo is?  Perhaps you can reproject it to something like Lambert
Azimuthal Equal-Area, with a central meridian that crosses Scotland and
Denmark (?) and a reference latitude that passes between Iceland and
Ireland.  I'm guessing somewhere between -11 and -12 for the meridian
and 56 and 57 for latitude.

If you reproject, remember to give your map extent in meters.

Good luck!
-Perry N.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
[mailto:owner-mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu] On Behalf Of Bjarni
Pjetursson
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 4:39 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: [mapserver-users] Can the map be stretched vertically?


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