[mapserver-users] Multiple bounding boxes for WMS layers
paalkr
pal.kristensen at statkart.no
Thu Feb 12 11:31:11 PST 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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