Generated scale

[Paul Spencer]

try adding UNITS DD to the MAP object

Paul

On 17-Jan-06, at 8:17 PM, James Net wrote:

> I'm viewing a satellite map of a large area and my mapserver  
> generated scale seems a little wrong. Viewing a whole state (of  
> Australia) mapserver generates a scale ranging from 0 --->  0.001km  
> (see attached). And when I zoom-in the scale bar goes to 0 ---> 0.  
> Any ideas? I thought my scale should be like 1 ---> 1000km. Am I  
> not reading it right? Am I missing or have I stuffed up a map file  
> config option / setting?
>
> My Map file:
>
> MAP
>   NAME        WEX
>   IMAGETYPE   jpeg
>   EXTENT      140 -41 150 -33
>   SIZE        600 600
>   DEBUG       ON
>   TRANSPARENT ON
>   IMAGECOLOR  239 242 248 # The background Color.
>
>   WEB
>      LOG         "mylog.log" # The Debug Log.
>      TEMPLATE    "template.html"
>      IMAGEPATH   "/var/web/tmp/"
>      IMAGEURL    "/tmp/"
>      METADATA
>         wms_title   "WEX"
>         wms_srs     "EPSG:4283"
>         wms_onlineresource   "http://myserver/cgi-bin/mapserv? 
> map=wex.map"
>      END
>      MAXSCALE 50.0
>      MINSCALE 0.1
>   END
>
>   PROJECTION
>      "init=epsg:4283"
>   END
>
> ...
>
>   SCALEBAR
>      IMAGECOLOR 0 0 0
>      LABEL
>         COLOR 255 255 255
>         SIZE  TINY
>      END
>      STYLE 1
>      SIZE  100 2
>      COLOR 255 255 255
>      UNITS kilometers
>      INTERVALS   1
>      TRANSPARENT TRUE
>      STATUS      ON
>   END
>
> ...
> LAYER stuff
> ...
> END # EOF
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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