[mapserver-users] WMS bounding box and tileindex raster layer

[Frank Warmerdam]

Rahkonen Jukka wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> It seems to be that MapServer WMS does not automatically generate WMS 
> bounding box metadata for raster layers which are read through 
> tileindex.  However, the metadata is generated if I publish the 
> tileindex shapefile as a normal vector layer. Is there some good reason 
> for not calculating the bounds of the raster layer from the tileindex 
> shapefile?

Jukka,

The reason is sloth, though this isn't a very good reason.   It ought to be
done.

Best regards,
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