[mapserver-users] Mapserver and Spatial Extent

[Thorsten Fischer]

James,

> I need to know more about the EXTENT command in a Mapserver map file.   I
> have a shape file layer of Kampala.  The shapefile is in WGS 84 projection.
> The center of the Shapefile is lat=32.5747819077374 and
> lon=0.320786584028765   I need to know how to work out the Extent values
> from the lat and lon.

The shapefile library shapelib brings two tools, shpinfo and shpdump,
which you can use to obtain information like the bounding box from a
shapefile.


hth,

thorsten

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