mapscript API shapfileObj units
Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]
Tom.Kralidis at EC.GC.CA
Mon Oct 30 10:17:58 PST 2006
Thanks for the info.
Having said this, if I do an ogrinfo, for example, on a shapefile, I do
get some units info returned, i.e.:
$ ogrinfo -al -summary ~tkralidi/geos/data/Confederation_Trail_2005.shp
INFO: Open of `/home/tkralidi/geos/data/Confederation_Trail_2005.shp'
using driver `ESRI Shapefile' successful.
Layer name: Confederation_Trail_2005
Geometry: Line String
Feature Count: 601
Extent: (305059.000053, 657304.420162) - (471874.599925, 767349.092887)
Layer SRS WKT:
PROJCS["PEI NAD83",
GEOGCS["GCS_North_American_1983_CSRS98",
DATUM["NAD83_Canadian_Spatial_Reference_System",
SPHEROID["GRS_1980",6378137.0,298.257222101]],
PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],
UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],
PROJECTION["Double_Stereographic"],
PARAMETER["False_Easting",400000.0],
PARAMETER["False_Northing",800000.0],
PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",-63.0],
PARAMETER["Scale_Factor",0.999912],
PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",47.25],
UNIT["Meter",1.0]]
NAME: String (12.0)
INDEX: String (12.0)
</snip>
...so I initially imagine that this could be marshalled into
shapefileObj.
..Tom
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Woodbridge [mailto:woodbri at swoodbridge.com]
> Sent: 30 October, 2006 1:14 PM
> To: Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]
> Cc: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] mapscript API shapfileObj units
>
> You can't! This is because it is not encoded in the shapefile
> to start with. The only reason you can get it from the Layer
> pbject is because you can set it in the mapfile and then
> retrieve it layer into mapscript.
> The equivalent behavior would be to create a metadata file
> for each shapefile and fetch it from that.
>
> -Steve
>
> Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have a script which utilizes the new mapscript geos
> functionality
> > by applying a buffer to each shapeObj within a shapefileObj
> to output
> > a new dataset.
> >
> > My question is I would like to know the units of shapefileObj (or
> > shapeObj).
> >
> > The mapscript API has layerObj->{units} as a property, but I am not
> > working within the layerObj context (i.e. I am not working on
> > mapfiles, just datasets).
> >
> > Any idea on how to fetch this info from the mapscript API without
> > layerObj? I've skimmed through
> > http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/mapscript/index_html as
> > part of my investigation, but didn't find anything else (or
> course I
> > may have glossed over something -- happens to me often!).
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > ..Tom
>
>
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