compensate scale for longitude

[Jacob Delfos]

Hi List,

I've been working on getting my "print to scale" code to work properly when working in latitude/longitude. I had a consistent error, and now realize it's because mapserver seems to ignore the longitude when converting from degrees to metres. I was wondering if that is something that could be changed. My code actually did compensate for it, which is why my scale (which is wrapped around the mapserver scale) did not match my scalebarsize after printing. It's quite a simple compensation; it's just a matter of taking the number which is currently calculated for the size of a pixel, and multiplying it with the cosine of the longitude (I use the longitude of the centre of the map). Of course the scale would not be the same throughout the map if your extent is large, but it will be a lot closer. In Perth the difference is around 15%. Where in the code should this be changed?

regards,

Jacob



JACOB DELFOS
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