[mapserver-users] Multiple bounding boxes for WMS layers

paalkr pal.kristensen at statkart.no
Thu Feb 12 14:31:11 EST 2009


Hi!

I'm sorry, but i can't see the relevance to the hiding layers issue? Maybe I
just don't get this?

Regards,
Pål Kristensen


Jukka Rahkonen wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> There is a closed ticket
> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/1905
> 
> We need to deliver most of our WMS layers in 3-5 different projections.
> It would good to get bounding boxes for all the projections that are
> advertised with "wms_srs".
> 
> Ticket comment: "Do we really want/need this?"
> My comment: If bounding box is missing the GIS client cannot zoom to WMS
> layer. Users need to open some local vector file or WFS layer in correct
> projection for locating themselves to correct place.  It is not very
> handy.
> 
> Ticket comment: "Imagine for instance a server which advertizes 50 SRS
> and contains 50 layers... thbose are fairly low numbers for WMS services
> but would result in 2500 bbox entries, most of them possibly invalid
> because the bbox is outside the projections' mathematical limits and the
> reprojection of the bbox results in invalid values."
> My comment: I did, and continued to imagine a server advertizing 1000
> SRS and 1000 layers. Wow, I see a million bounding boxes in my eyes :)
> In real life less than hundred boxes would be enough for us and our
> users would love us.
> 
> If Mapserver won't support multiple bounding boxes I could also imagine
> to make it manually.  But should I then create some static
> getCapabilities document and deliver that for our clients?  Where should
> I put the file when running Mapserver from MS4W?
> 
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
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