[Mapserver-users] Rotated maps

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Wed Jan 21 08:44:50 PST 2004


Omry Yadan wrote:
> Can I request rotated maps from MapServer using WMS protocol?
> By rotated maps I mean a map for which the north is not up, when the data
> has its north up.

Omry,

To the best of my knowledge there is no convenient way to do this.  You
could ... in theory ... develop a projection option which is essentially
a rotated frame of reference and let mapserver do the rotation as a
reprojection step, but that would be fairly hard.

Best regards,

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