[Mapserver-users] Re: MaxScale / MinScale Problem

Mon Jan 20 22:05:45 PST 2003

--- In mapserver-users at yahoogroups.com, Scott Carr <scarr at p...> wrote:
> Thanks, very much.  This is what fixed my problem.
> 
> Is this in a FAQ somewhere?
> 
> If you see your scale like .003 .004 etc then you need to change
your units to
> Decimal Degrees (DD).

well, no not really... but, if you have...

..
> > > My Map File as it stands now:
> > >
> > > map
> > >   extent -104.187846 39.864694 -103.411784 40.610718
..

then you know from your extent that your units are decimal degrees.
Since degrees are divided into 60 mins and then into 60 secs, they
have to be "normalized" to base 10 to be expressed as a real number.
Hence, "decimal" degrees.