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A pretty straightforward way to obtain the extent of a layer is using
ogrinfo, which comes with gdal-ogr tool.<br>
A possible usage:<br>
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ogrinfo /path/to/shapefiles layername | grep Extent</tt></i><br>
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Wagner, Jeffrey S. (DMS/CISD) wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Is it possible to get the
extents of a layer? I’d
like to add a “zoom to layer” link in the legend….<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Thanks,<br>
Jeff<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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