Case of the blankety blanks

[Chris Foote]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Sam Lawrance wrote:

> Chris Foote wrote:
>
>> I've managed to get CGIMapServer up and running, and I'm able to
>> embed a label and scale.  The problem I'm having is getting either
>> one of 2 shapefiles to be displayed - they come up blank ;-(
>>
>>         LAYER
>>                 NAME Australia2
>>                 DATA Australia2
>>                 TYPE polygon
>>                 STATUS on
>
> Use STATUS DEFAULT for your layers instead of STATUS ON. Read doco for more
> info.

Hi Sam.

I saw that hint in the email archives of this list, and I had tried
that earlier with no success.  It doesn't mean it's not needed
however, so that was half of the problem.

I found the solution other half of the problem - the extent values
provided to me were incorrect, way off in fact.  Mark Cave-Ayland
<m.cave-ayland at webbased.co.uk> replied and provided me with new
extent values:

   EXTENT 6115607.4 -6721409.5 11728494.8 -2487757.2

from a program called "jump" which I hadn't heard of.

It appears that the software exporting the shapefiles from
its native format does something funny with its offsets.


Cheers,

Chris Foote <chris at inetd.com.au>
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