I would suggest that you give us a little more info. Lay out what you are trying to do, most likely, someone will have an idea of how to get you there.
David. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 4:40 PM To: 'Fawcett, David'; [email protected] Subject: RE: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Querying the extents of a layer (shapefile) Thanks, I have done that before but I can only do that manually. I need a method either inside of Mapserver, in VBScript in an ASPX page, in Javascript in the Template page, or PHP to do this and then pass it to Mapserver to render the next map. Chip Taylor Prepared Response, Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Fawcett, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 1:12 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] > Subject: RE: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Querying the extents of a layer > (shapefile) > > You can run ogrinfo on it and get the extents > > http://ogr.maptools.org/ogr_utilities.html > > -----Original Message----- > From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Chip Taylor > Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 2:34 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Querying the extents of a layer > (shapefile) > > > If I have a shapefile as a layer can I query the extents of that > shapefile from MapServer or MapScript? > > Thanks for all the help you give to us poor newbies. > > Chip Taylor > Prepared Response, Inc.
