[Mapserver-users] scale query

[woodbri at swoodbridge.com]

Daniel,

If you data is in lat/long, then I think you probably want your units 
to be DD as lat/longs usually expressed in decimal degrees.

-Steve W.

On 25 Feb 2004 at 13:46, Mills, Daniel wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am querying map->sclae and getting back funny results.  Can anybody help.
> 
> i am using mapserver 4.2 with mapscript. When i zoom to the extents of the
> uk (-7.000 49.000 3.000 59.000) i get a scale of 47.24412.  I have set my
> map projection to lat/long, the data is held in Oracle Spatial SRID=null.
> map units have been set to METERS.  I have set all of my layers to lat/long
> and units m.
> 
> Does anybody have any ideas as to why this is the case?
> Thanks
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 
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