[Mapserver-users] getextent in a file .TAB

[Daniel Morissette]

Irene Pérez wrote:
> Hi, can you help me?
> I 'm using files mapinfo and I have a problem, because
> I'm trying get the extent of a layers, but i can't use
> getextent() because i have the next error to execute
> the next line:
> 
> $shapeFileObj = ms_newShapeFileObj(
> "/home/ejemplos/data/municipios",-1) 
> 

The shapefileObj is for shapefiles only.  It won't work for OGR or any 
other data source.

> 
> How can i get the extent, please?
> 

You can use the 'ogrinfo' tool that comes with GDAL/OGR, e.g.

   ogrinfo -so /home/ejemplos/data/municipios.TAB municipios

For more info on 'ogrinfo', see: http://ogr.maptools.org/ogr_utilities.html

Daniel
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  Daniel Morissette               dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca
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