Greetings, I am a moderately capable Mapserver user, so I hope to have a modest understanding of the basis of the following issue.....
I have been working on fine-tuning a map's cartographic display under the Ka-Map environment which has a discrete set of available map scales. In this particular case, I have been working on the 1:50,000 scale, whose neighbors are the 1:25,000 and 1:100,000 scales. Since I'm fine-tuning my map for this scale, I wanted to set MINSCALE and MAXSCALE values such that a particular layer would display only at 1:50,000 - not at 1:25,000 nor at 1:100,000. Thinking I knew what I was doing, I set a MINSCALE value of 25010 and a MAXSCALE value of 50010. However, this particular layer kept displaying itself on the 1:100,000 scale map. After much head scratching and consternation on my part, I changed the MAXSCALE value from 50010 to 70000. The results were as expected. The layer did not draw at 1:100000. To repeat, the only change (to the best of my ??) in the mapfile was: from: MAXSCALE 50010 to : MAXSCALE 70000 in order to keep a layer from displaying at 1:100,000 Thank you for any insights. Of course I can pass along the mapfile and url's should anybody so desire. -steve
