Generated scale

[James Net]

Thanks, it worked.


>From: Paul Spencer <pspencer at dmsolutions.ca>
>To: James Net <james_marsnett at HOTMAIL.COM>
>CC: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Generated scale
>Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:31:11 -0500
>
>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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