Data Plotted at Wrong Location

Tue Dec 11 09:58:45 EST 2007

Hi Brent,

Yeah... I was shuffling the X and Y around to see if it make a
different, but either combination doesn't seem to work.
I check the PROJ_LIB environment variable, it wasn't set. Setting the
variable in Solaris and Apache to /usr/local/share/proj doesn't seem to
work. 

Executing:
# proj +proj=lcc
79.725 43.715                (input)
5619844.75      7781484.62   (output)
43.715 79.725                (input)
1266934.34      10025427.15  (output)

Does that confirm Proj4 is working correctly?

I been stuck here for awhile...
This going to haunt me if I can't figure out what's wrong...

Thanks a lot
Toan

-----Original Message-----
From: Brent Fraser [mailto:bfraser at geoanalytic.com] 
Sent: December 10, 2007 3:26 PM
To: Tran, Toan (MCYS); MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Data Plotted at Wrong Location

Toan,
 In your connection string you've got: x='Y' y='X'.  Try changing it to
x='X' y='Y'.  Although I don't know why it would work on Windows but not
Solaris.

  You may want to confirm your Proj installation is working correctly on
Solaris by converting a few coordinates using the proj command on the
Solaris command line.  I think you may need to ensure the PROJ_LIB
environment variable is set to the location of the Proj epsg file.

Brent Fraser
GeoAnalytic Inc.
Calgary, Alberta
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tran, Toan (MCYS)" <Toan.Tran at ONTARIO.CA>
To: <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Data Plotted at Wrong Location

Hi Brent,

I have include the config.map and the .csv file

I have thought if EXTENT could be an issue, but modifying
the minX,
minY, maxX, maxY doesn't seem to have any effect.
Those large number in the .csv file are added because I
wanted to test
the plotted points...

One thing that I find very puzzling is that we have tried
the map-server
using two different platform:
- Windows XP
      - Solaris SPARC / UNIX

Both platform use almost the exact config.map file and .csv file But for
some reason, we did not have any problem on the Window Platform... All
the points are plotted with little trouble... but then again, in Windows
the map-server was package very nicely in a binary form.

Also, I pay very close attention so case-sensitive issues
(i.e. epsg
V.S. EPSG). Could the problem be some other case sensitivity issue in
Soalris/UNIX?

Thank you so much for your help so far.

Much appreciated
Toan

-----Original Message-----
From: Brent Fraser [mailto:bfraser at geoanalytic.com]
Sent: December 10, 2007 2:26 PM
To: Tran, Toan (MCYS); MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Data Plotted at Wrong Location

Toan,

  Looking at the snippet of the csv file you provided below, you've got
some coordinates in a Geographic (decimal degrees of latitude and
longitude) and some in a projected system (meters LCC?). Mapserver
usually allows only one coordinate system definition per input file, so
this is not valid. They need to be all Geographic coordinates or all
projected.

  And check your extents in the map file.  Would they cover
the points in the csv file?  It might be helpful if you included your
map file.

Brent Fraser
GeoAnalytic Inc.
Calgary, Alberta

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tran, Toan (MCYS)" <Toan.Tran at ONTARIO.CA>
To: <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Data Plotted at Wrong Location

Brent,

Thank you for your help. I am new to Map Server...

I have:
PROJECTION
   "init=epsg:42304"
END

inside both my top-level MAP and LAYER definition.

I try Adding/Changing (Is this what your meant?) inside my Layer
definition... All the points that as plotted before are now gone.
PROJECTION  "init=epsg:4269" END

The proper location is still not plotted.
Something I am doing incorrectly?

Thank you so much for your help.
Toan

-----Original Message-----
From: Brent Fraser [mailto:bfraser at geoanalytic.com]
Sent: December 10, 2007 1:33 PM
To: Tran, Toan (MCYS); MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Data Plotted at Wrong Location

Toan,

  You haven't specified the coordinate system of the input
data so MapServer assumes it's the same as the coordinate system for the
output map (LCC).

  Add a PROJECTION object to the csv file's LAYER
definition.  For example, if the input data in the csv file
is NAD83:

LAYER csv
PROJECTION
 "init=epsg:4269"
END
:

Brent Fraser
GeoAnalytic Inc.
Calgary, Alberta
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tran, Toan (MCYS)" <Toan.Tran at ONTARIO.CA>
To: <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 11:13 AM
Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Data Plotted at Wrong
Location

Hi,
I wish to plot several points in Ontario, Canada, but the problem is
that the points are plotted at the wrong location. My data are in
decimal degree stored in a CSV file. But when the map was draw, all the
points are plotted very closed together. I suspect that for some reason,
the map-server is plotting the data as meter/or any other unit instead
of degree decimal. I used this PROJECTION in both my top-level MAP and
proper layer, with UNITS METERS: PROJECTION "init=epsg:42304" END I
added this for the /usr/local/share/proj/epsg file because it wasn't
there after I installed the Projection Library: <42304>
+proj=lcc
+lat_1=49 +lat_2=77 +lat_0=49 +lon_0=-95
+x_0=0 +y_0=0
+ellps=GRS80 +datum=NAD83 +units=m +no_defs no_defs <>
Is it enough to simple add the above epsg code???
Changing UNITS METERS to UNITS DD in my map file doesn't
help either.
Here are some sample DATA:
 <<img.GIF>>
Desc,,X,Y
"5",79.725833,43.715361
"6",81.000107,43.368512
"7",-78.347276,44.301459
"8",,81.332038,48.47381
"9",79.68955,43.4662
...
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaa19",0,200000
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaa20",0,220000
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaa21",0,240000
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaa30",0,300000
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaa31",10000,300000

This is what I see when I type ./mapserv -v
MapServer version 4.10.3 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP
OUTPUT=SVG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER
SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT
SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER SUPPORTS=THREADS INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL
INPUT=SHAPEFILE DEBUG=MSDEBUG Any help is much appreciated Thanks Toan