geographic coordinates don't work

[Fawcett, David]

Donald, 

Not sure about your projections issue, it is possible that you haven't provided all of the necessary parameters.  You might try using epsg codes to simplify things.  

For LAYER status, setting it to default will make the layer automatically be displayed.  Setting status to ON makes the layer available for querying, and to display it, you need to explicitly set the layer name in the URL.  e.g. &map=mymapfile.map&layer=N_AL&layer=secondlayer

David.


-----Original Message-----
From:	UMN MapServer Users List on behalf of Donlad Harter
Sent:	Thu 6/23/2005 6:06 PM
To:	MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
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Subject:	[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] geographic coordinates don't work
I would like to use geographic coordinates for my main window. My only 
layer is georeferenced DRG which uses the UTM projection.   It doesn't 
work.  If I change it and the extents to UTM it does.  How can I use 
geographic coordinates?  I have also noticed that my map file won't work 
with the layer status "on".  It has to be "default"
Here is most of my map file.:


MAP
 NAME           test3
 IMAGETYPE      png
 #EXTENT        578853 3857452.040  592267.160 3875770.440
  EXTENT        -86.125 34.875 -86 35  SIZE           1000 600
 SHAPEPATH      "/var/www/html/data/topo"
 SYMBOLSET      "tutorial/symbols/symbols35.sym"
 FONTSET        "tutorial/fonts/fonts.list"

 WEB
   TEMPLATE  'test3_template.html'
   IMAGEPATH '/var/www/html/tmp/'
   IMAGEURL  '/tmp/'
   MINSCALE 10000
   MAXSCALE 250000
 END

   PROJECTION
   "proj=latlong"
#    "proj=utm"
   "ellps=clrk66"
#    "zone=16"
#    "north"       END
 # Start of LAYER DEFINITIONS ---------------------------------------------

 LAYER # raster layer begins here
   NAME         N_AL
   STATUS    DEFAULT       TILEINDEX "al_index.shp"
   TILEITEM "Location"
   TYPE RASTER

   SIZEUNITS    meters
    PROJECTION
    "proj=utm"
    "ellps=clrk66"
    "zone=16"
    "north"       END
 END #  raster layer ends here


# End of LAYER DEFINITIONS -------------------------------