[mapserver-users] Re: changing layer projection

Steve Lime Steve.Lime at DNR.State.MN.US
Fri Dec 26 10:20:39 EST 2008


I sent a reply to the list on the 23rd, did you see/try that? The proper syntax for
a layer projection is:

  map_layer[layername]=PROJECTION%20init%3Depsg%3A26914%20END

I checked the code and a projection can be modified by URL.

Steve


>>> On 12/26/2008 at 9:07 AM, in message
<288EED89877E4D398C786CE66E114BAC at ChadsVista>, "Chad Ringenberg"
<chad at agridatainc.com> wrote:
> Since I haven't received a response yet on my question I will explain a 
> little further what I'm am doing.  I have numerous raster images from 
> different sources that I dynamically load via cgi.  Sometimes these images 
> are in a different projection than my resulting map.  I can still change the 
> data parameter for the raster layer but have been unable to change the 
> projection.  I was able to do this in 4.1 but it appears to have been removed 
> in 5.x or a bug was introduced.  
> 
> Can the projection parameter for a layer be changed in 5.x or should I file 
> a bug report?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chad
> 
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Chad Ringenberg 
>   To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org 
>   Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 3:43 PM
>   Subject: changing layer projection
> 
> 
>   I have been updating my mapserver cgi application from 4.10 to 5.21 and it 
> appears we have lost the ability to change a layers projection parameter from 
> the url.  In version 4.1 I could change it with 
> "map_layername_projection=init=epsg:26914".  With 5.21 I have tried 
> "map_layer[layername]_projection=init=epsg:26914" and numerous other 
> combinations to no avail.
> 
>   Does anyone know how to change a layers projection with 5.21?
> 
>   Thanks,
>   Chad



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