[Mapserver-users] Extent units

[Dean Gadoury]

As Ed said, it looks like those are decimal degrees. Try using this as 
your extent:

EXTENT -71.53179836 -41.29253644 -71.14854968 -41.04421467



Ed McNierney wrote:

>Mario -
>
>These data appear to be in decimal degrees, which is fine.  Make sure
>you use UNITS DD in your MAP file, and set the EXTENT to use the values
>below.
>
>I have seen certain builds of shpinfo that run correctly and then crash
>after generating their output.  Don't worry about it in this case, as
>you have the data you need.
>
>	- Ed
>
>Ed McNierney
>President and Chief Mapmaker
>TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
>73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
>North Chelmsford, MA  01863
>Phone: (978) 251-4242  Fax: (978) 251-1396
>ed at topozone.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mario Servin [mailto:mservin at tecnoaccion.com.ar] 
>Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 5:31 PM
>To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>Subject: [Mapserver-users] Extent units
>
>Hi,
>    I was playing with the demo.map and now I want to use my own
>shapefiles
>but I do not know the EXTENT of my map..... I downloaded shapelib from
>the
>Internet and with shpinfo.exe I get:
>Info for calles.shp
>Polyline(3), 338 Records in file
>File Bounds: (   -71.53179836,   -41.29253644)
>        (   -71.14854968,   -41.04421467)
>
>Then there is some unknown error . I do not know how to use these values
>as
>I never saw something like this values (GG.GGGGGGG) in .map file. Can
>anybody help me?
>
>
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