Map Extent

[S.Nicolas - Webmaster]

Hi,

Could somebody direct me to a simple example to calculate the correct map
extent of an illustrator worldmap I have.

Thanks in advance

S. NICOLAS


-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
Behalf Of Marco Marsella
Sent: 02 March 2005 18:07
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] A confused Network Admin

I would like to reassure Christine that she's not the only one confused
about OpenSource in general and MapServer in particular. I have over 25
years of professional programming experience in too many languages, starting
with FORTRAN IV when some of the listers here where probably not even able
to read yet ;-)

I find myself also *very* confused because of the terribly poor
documentation that usually complements OpenSource projects. Most often than
not, there is just a very technical document that tersely explains what you
can do with this or that parameter. With most Java projects you just find
the JavaDoc! There is little or no high-level documentation that explains
the architecture and lets you find your way around. Most of the projects
require that you spend an inordinate amount of time looking at the code to
understand what you can do and how.

For me, I find the MapServer documentation absolutely insufficient and it is
amazing how people prefer to spend a lot of time replying on this list
rather than investing much more efficiently their time writing decent
documentation and providing good tutorials and examples.

Please, do not misunderstand me! I think MapServer is a terrific project and
I am incredibly grateful to the very knowledgeable guys out there willing to
help through the list. Only, I would much prefer having good documentation
to work through and bother the listers only when absolutely necessary.

As you may have seen, I put my.. time where the mouth is. As soon as I learn
how to do something, I will post a message to the list hoping that it might
be of help to others (see "[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] A simple... sample!" dated
10 Feb 2005). Sure, it is a trivial example, but it took me *a lot* of time
(and a zillion Google searches) to figure out, much longer than I would
expect! I will be more than happy to continue doing so to alleviate the
trouble of learning MapServer!

Cheers

Marco