[mapserver-users] Is mode=tile always epsg:3857?

Jeff McKenna jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
Tue Oct 27 05:47:07 PDT 2020


Thanks Rich and Mike, I've done some more local tests and given some 
much needed love to the mode=tile documentation, so hopefully these 
questions are prevented in the future.  Let me know if you notice 
anything else.  https://mapserver.org/output/tile_mode.html

-jeff



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Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
co-founder of FOSS4G
http://gatewaygeo.com/


On 2020-10-24 3:43 p.m., Richard Greenwood wrote:
> Thanks Mike!
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> On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 11:35 AM Michael Smith 
> <michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com <mailto:michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Rich,____
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>     Looking at mode=tile, yes, it sets it to spherical Mercator____
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>     https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/blob/master/maptile.c#L259____
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>     *From: *mapserver-users <mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>> on behalf of
>     Richard Greenwood <richard.greenwood at gmail.com
>     <mailto:richard.greenwood at gmail.com>>
>     *Date: *Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 1:22 PM
>     *To: *mapserver <mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org>>
>     *Subject: *[mapserver-users] Is mode=tile always epsg:3857?____
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>     I'm trying to generate vector tiles in a non epsg:3857 (web
>     mercator) projection but it looks to me like mapserver is treating
>     it as 3857 despite passing a srs. ____
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>     My request generated by OpenLayers at the full map extent is:____
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>     /cgi-bin/mapserv?map=mvt.map&SRS=EPSG:3738&mode=tile&tile=0+0+0&layers=ownership&map.imagetype=mvt____
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>     My extents are: 1622000 639000 2308000 1284700____
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>     My mapserver log looks like:____
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>     [Sat Oct 24 11:10:58 2020].947687 msTileSetParams():
>     tile_metatile_level = 0
>     [Sat Oct 24 11:10:58 2020].947690 msTileSetExtent(): gmaps coords
>     (x: 0, y: 0, z: 0)
>     [Sat Oct 24 11:10:58 2020].947692 msTileSetExtent(): gmaps
>     metacoords (x: 0, y: 0, z: 0)
>     [Sat Oct 24 11:10:58 2020].947695 msTileSetExtent(): base image size
>     (256 x 256)
>     [Sat Oct 24 11:10:58 2020].947697 msTileSetExtent(): buffered image
>     size (256 x 256)
>     [Sat Oct 24 11:10:58 2020].947700 msTileSetExtent (-19959236.823047,
>     -19959236.823047) (19959236.823047, 19959236.823047)
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>     There's obviously something that I'm not getting...____
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>     -- ____
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>     Richard W. Greenwood, PLS
>     www.greenwoodmap.com <http://www.greenwoodmap.com>____
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