Last fall I got some help for the list on how to use Postgres as a
source for a tile index that gives locations of raster files on disk and
that has been working beautifully.
My new question is this: Is it possible for a tile index location to
indicate something other than a path to a file, s
Milo van der Linden wrote:
Hello Neil,
One thing you can do to create some sort of tileindex that can be part
of the where clause is create a view in postGIS that contains the
boundingboxes of a table based upon an attribute:
CREATE VIEW MYBBOX AS
SELECT
table1.uniqueID,
extent(table1.the_ge
Maria Panagou wrote:
>
> I am wondering if it is possible to setup a WMS server with Mapserver,
> that will serve layers in more than one map projection. For example it it
> possible to declare at MAP level such a PROJECTION declaration?
>
> PROJECTION
> "init=epsg:900913"
> "init=eps
I have been trolling the list for any sense of attempts to use or prospects
for ever using non-EPSG SRSs with a WMS server. Somewhere I found a post, I
think it was this list but don't have the link handy, from 2001 saying that
there had been discussion to generalize the mechanism for advertising
Frank Warmerdam-2 wrote:
>
> The normal practice if you want a non-EPSG coordinate system to be usable
> for WMS serving with MapServer is to just extend the epsg init file with
> the definition. Is this unacceptable for some reason?
>
I have been reluctant to do this because:
1) I was conc
