[mapserver-users] Extents

2009-10-06 Thread Jay Kapalczynski
I have a applications using MapServer. I have a button that runs some code on a .js page every few seconds. What I need to do is somehow get the map extent to the .js page. Is it possible to write some javascript code to retrieve the maps extent every few seconds? Thanks _

Re: [mapserver-users] Extents and projections multiple datasets

2008-04-25 Thread Paul Ramsey
Gail, The PROJECTION in each LAYER should be the projection of the *source data*. So if your data is from multiple folks in multiple projections, your LAYER projections should generally be different from one another, not all the same. The PROJECTION at the MAP level defines what you want your out

[mapserver-users] Extents and projections multiple datasets

2008-04-25 Thread Gail Long
I need some good pointers to docs or how-tos for working with extents and projections from multiple datasets. I'm getting shape files from several different sources and they all seem to have different projections and built on lots of different extents. I need to have them work together. I'm d