[Mapserver-users] shape file reprojection on the fly.

Daniel Morissette dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca
Fri Feb 6 06:54:29 PST 2004


Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> 
> I believe the wms_srs parameters in the mapfile metadata are just used to
> determine what SRS'es will be advertised as supported in the WMS 
> capabilities
> document.  As far as I know any coordinate system in the PROJ.4 epsg 
> support
> file will work even if it wasn't explicitly listed in the wms_srs list for
> the server.
> 

That's correct: the wms_srs is used only to build the capabilities, but 
any projection code from PROJ4's 'epsg' file can be used in a GetMap 
request.

Daniel
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