MapScript Documentation (Re: [Mapserver-users] Re: problem getting bounds of poly shape)

[Lowell Filak]

Strange, I just checked and my original reply to this must have never
exitted my machine.
The code you sent before actually constructed a shapeObj instead of a
rectObj for the queryByRect.
This is probably a legal thing to do but I just have to ask - are you
sure the queryByRect is producing the correct result?
Lowell

The following message was sent by "pkishor_98"
<pkishor at geoanalytics.com> on Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:43:21 -0000.

> --- In mapserver-users at yahoogroups.com, Daniel Morissette
<morissette at d...> 
> wrote:
> > I think we should do more use of bugzilla to track those kind of issues 
> > once it's been established that something needs a fix (the getBounds() 
> > thing in this case).  The mailing list gets lots of traffic and chances 
> > are that the conclusions of those discussions will be lost of forgotten 
> > unless someone has time to act on the issues right away which is
unlikely.
> > 
> > By using bugzilla, we can later on track the reasons behind any change 
> > back to the initial problem reported by the user (Puneet would be the 
> > bug reporter in this case), and then we can read in each bug report the 
> > discussions that led to a decision to change the behavior or not.
> > 
> > The use of bugzilla also makes it easier for developers and other 
> > contributors (documentation, etc) to query the database and view a list 
> > of current issues to work on *when* they have time.
> > 
> 
> Thanks Daniel.
> 
> I've added this in the bz as an enhancement request. Part of the
problem is that us 
> non-developers still have to first figure out whether or not our
problem lies with us 
> screwing up or with the code. We can only do that via the list. Of
course, once it is 
> determined that indeed the problem is a "bug" then it can be added to
the zilla.
> 
> 
> For example, I am still having a problem with queryByShape, and I
don't know if I am 
> doing something wrong or if this is a bug.
> 
> My problem is thus --
> 
> creating an shapeObj and then using it to queryByShape against a layer
returns way 
> more results than should.
> 
> getting the bounds of the above shape and creating a rectObj and then
using 
> queryByRect against the same layer returns the correct number of
results (way less 
> than that returned by queryByShape).
> 
> now, I have to first determine if I am doing something obviously wrong
or if this is a 
> bug. Then I can act accordingly.
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
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