Units problem

[Miguel Gonçalves]

Hi Yewondwossen,

I tried what you said but stills not worling.
Can I send the data files and the map object to your personal mail?
Thanks.
Best regards.

Miguel

Yewondwossen Assefa wrote:

> Hi There,
>
>  Normally the unit should be parsed from the filter and set as the 
> value of the toleranceunits and your distance should be used to update 
> the tolerance of the layer.
>
>  The only thing that might be missing (assuming that all filter 
> encoding is parsed properly) is that you should set the units of your 
> map file to  degrees (at the map level set UNITS "dd").  If that does 
> not solve your issue please sned me a simple map file/data/and the 
> filter encoding and I will test it here.
>
> Later,
>
>
> Miguel Gonçalves wrote:
>
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I am using mapserver 4.6 for windows
>> I am using the following  DWidth request
>>
>> http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?VERSION=1.0.0&SERVICE=WFS&REQUEST=GetFeature&TYPENAME=cities&MAP=../MAPS/tutorial/europe_1.map&Filter= 
>>
>> <Filter>
>>    <DWithin>
>>        <PropertyName>Geometry</PropertyName>
>>        <gml:Point>
>>            <gml:coordinates>-8.418000,41.539600</gml:coordinates>
>>        </gml:Point>
>>        <Distance units='m'>1000</Distance>
>>    </DWithin>
>> </Filter>
>>
>>
>> and I am having some problems with the units.
>> I specified units='m' but, in the results that I obtain, the distance 
>> between the geographical features is in degrees (I checked with ArcMap).
>> Can you help me to solve this problem?
>> Thanks.
>> Best regards.
>>
>> Miguel
>>
>> P.S. If it helps, here is my map object
>>
>> MAP
>>  EXTENT    -36.133725 5.7104918367 66.0633 71.1839
>>  SHAPEPATH    "europe_1_data"
>>
>>  WEB
>>    METADATA
>>    WFS_TITLE    "Mapa da Europa"
>>    WFS_SRS        "http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?"
>>    END
>>  END
>> ############## LAYER cities
>>  LAYER
>>    NAME    cities
>>    DATA    cities
>>    TYPE    line
>>    DUMP    TRUE                                     TOLERANCEUNITS 
>> METERS
>>    METADATA
>>    WFS_TITLE    "cities layer"
>>     GML_INCLUDE_ITEMS "all"
>>    END
>>  END
>>
>> ############## LAYER mjroads
>>  LAYER
>>    NAME    mjroads
>>    DATA    mjroads
>>    TYPE    line
>>    DUMP    TRUE
>>    TOLERANCEUNITS METERS
>>    METADATA
>>    WFS_TITLE    "mjroads layer"
>>    GML_INCLUDE_ITEMS "all"
>>    END
>>  END
>>
>> ##############LAYER country
>>  LAYER
>>    NAME    countries
>>    DATA    countries
>>    TYPE    polygon
>>    DUMP    TRUE
>>    TOLERANCEUNITS METERS
>>    METADATA
>>    WFS_TITLE    "country layer"
>>    GML_INCLUDE_ITEMS "all"
>>    END
>>  END
>>
>> END
>>
>