[Mapserver-users] PHP Mapscript queries of GeoTiff Raster Data

[Frank Warmerdam]

Nate wrote:
> Dear List,
> 
> I had originally planned to post this message to the mailing list, but 
> thankfully both my first attempt bounced, and I ran into Sean Gillies on 
> IRC.  He provided the following link to answer my question:
> 
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RasterQuery
> 
> So the answer appears to be that Mapscript/Mapserver won't support 
> raster queries for one more version at least.  It also looks like "query 
> by rectangle" will quickly become the bane of all raster data queries. ;)

Nate,

Note that the bold are encouraged to try out the MapServer 4.3 tree.  Feedback
is welcome.  While it would be easy to have a disasterously large raster query,
this can also happen pretty easily with big vector datasets.

Best regards,

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