Mapfile Tuning

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at POBOX.COM
Tue Sep 19 08:52:00 PDT 2006


Ed McNierney wrote:
> Frank -
> 
> Thanks; is that the case for all projection definitions advertised in a
> WMS service, even if a specific request doesn't use them?  I was under
> the impression that there was no file access penalty for just
> advertising a lot of projections.

Ed,

I was thinking primarily of PROJECTION blocks with an "init=" clause.  I
haven't traced through to see if WMS advertising of epsg projections
triggers a lookup.  I presume not, but that is just a presumption.

Best regards,
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