Raster layer coordinates

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 8/2/05, SUBSCRIBE MAPSERVER-USERS Y. Calcagni <yvan.calcagni at voila.fr> wrote:
> Thanks Franck for your reply, it explains a lot of things...
> but I persist to believe that such a capability to known any layer extent
> should be in any mapserver engine (and not also UMN mapserver). Is there
> an "historical" or technical reason for this lack (due to dependencies,
> perhaps)?

Yvan,

I don't think there is any compelling reason things are this way, and
in fact there is a bug report on the need to add extent support for
rasters: 

  http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=79

Best regards,
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