Ciao Andrea,

> Out of curiosity... why do people want to rotate maps? Maybe
> I'm just used to projections that leave the northwards direction
> "up"... I know for sure that I would have some troubles locating
> my house in my town map if someone rotated the map so that
> north points "down"...

Imagine you've got a smartphone with a mapping application that send   
it's orientation to the WMS server. If the server is able to rotate a  
map it can give a result with the real context of the user.

Cheers,

Vincent

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