[Chameleon] Bad initial mapunits, ground scale and scalebar...

Fortin,Nicolas [SteFoy] nicolas.fortin at ec.gc.ca
Mon Apr 18 09:32:48 EDT 2005


Merci Daniel!

Nicolas

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Daniel Morissette [mailto:dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca] 
Envoyé : 18 avril 2005 09:27
À : Fortin,Nicolas [SteFoy]
Cc : chameleon at lists.maptools.org
Objet : Re: RE : [Chameleon] Bad initial mapunits, ground scale and scalebar...


Perhaps try setting "UNITS DD" in your mapfile.

Daniel


Fortin,Nicolas [SteFoy] wrote:
> No idea...nobody!?
> 
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : chameleon-bounces at lists.maptools.org 
> [mailto:chameleon-bounces at lists.maptools.org] De la part de 
> Fortin,Nicolas [SteFoy] Envoyé : 14 avril 2005 10:21 À : 
> chameleon at lists.maptools.org Objet : [Chameleon] Bad initial mapunits, 
> ground scale and scalebar...
> 
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I have a problem with initial mapunits and consequently the scaling of 
> my map.
> 
> I use Chameleon 2.0 with some CVS update.  Windows XP with IIS.
> 
> My mapfile is in epsg:4326 (lat/lon) and when I first load the 
> application, the extents are -75 44 -67 50.  Here's what is shown by
> chameleon:
>  Scalebar: 5 intervals of 0.0007km increment (!?!?)
>  Ground Scale : 50 (!?!?)
>  Map Units: Metre (Not supposed to be Decimal Degree!?!?)  Projection : WGS 84 / Geographic
>  Left:  -75.05 
>  Right:  -66.95 
>  Bottom:  44.00 
>  Top:  50.00 
> 
> I check my epsg file and all seems ok for epsg:4326
> Here's a part of my mapfile:
> 
> NAME CYBERWMS1
> SIZE 462 342
> EXTENT -75 44 -67 50
> SHAPEPATH "J:\data"
> SYMBOLSET "F:\Mapserver\symbols\symbols35.sym"
> FONTSET "F:\chameleon\chameleon-2.0\samples\etc\fonts.txt"
> 
> PROJECTION
>    "init=epsg:4326"
> END
> 
> The weird thing is if I change the projection using the 
> projectionselector widget to the same projection, all is back to normal:  Scalebar ok!  Ground Scale 5526005 ok But Map Units is Metre again...
>  
> I'm lost...
> What's happens here...?
> 
> Nicolas
> 



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