[Mapserver-users] units question

[Dave Walton]

On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 12:00:04 -0600
mapserver-users-request at lists.gis.umn.edu wrote:

> I have a shapefile which ogrinfo describes as below.  It displays quite
> nicely in MapServer.  However, I have to use meters for EXTENT, and when
> I produce a GeoTIFF image, the coordinates are in meters.  I would very
> much like to be able to specify EXTENT in decimal degrees, and have the
> coordinates in the GeoTIFF in decimal degrees.  How can I set up
> MapServer to do this?

Ok, nevermind.  Someone else's question here gave me the hint I needed to
answer this.  Use "ogr2ogr -t_srs 'epsg:4326'" to transform the data to
lat/long, and everything works as I wanted.

Dave


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Dave Walton                                            dwalton at acm.org
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