Finding centroids from shapefiles (php/mapscript)

[Tim Schaub]

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> Can I find or calculate the centroid of a shapefile (ideally 
> from php/ mapscript)?

If you really want to find the centroid of each shape, I think you'd
have to convert the shapeObj to well known text, parse through to get
points, and calculate the centroid yourself.

If the centroid of the shape's extent is sufficient, you can get the
shape->bounds and find the center point.

Tim

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