[Mapserver-users] WMS metadata and .wld files

[Eric Sokolowsky]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Eric Sokolowsky wrote:
> > I have been able to compile and run mapserv as a WMS server for images.
> > It was necessary to include .wld files for each of the layers that I
> > serve.  But is it supported to get the geo-referencing metadata from the
> > wms_extent field instead of the external .wld file?  My guess is that it
> > is not.  Is somebody adding this ability?  If not, then I would like
> > to add it and submit the changes back to the mapserver maintainers for
> > everybody's use.
> > 
> > I am using mapserver 4.0.1 on Red Hat Linux 9.
> 
> Eric,
> 
> I don't know if you got other response to this, but I think it is a good
> idea.  It might be a fair amount of work to add it everywhere, but it would
> be a good start to incorporate it for files read via the GDAL raster reading.
> I would suggest looking in the area of GADLReadWorldFile() in mapraster.c and
> mapdrawgdal.c.

Ok, thanks for the tip.

> If you prepare updates to accomplish this (please develop them against the
> CVS version of mapserver if at all possible) and submit them in Bugzilla
> assigned to me I will try and incorporate them.

Yes, I have already downloaded the mapserver through CVS.  How often is
the CVS version updated?  I will always try to keep synchronized when I 
submit fixes.

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