[MapFish-Dev] Print module: native WMS rotation support

[Andreas Hocevar]

Hi,

at the New York Sprint [1], developers of MapServer and GeoServer got 
together, which (among other improvements) led to a new vendor param for 
WMS requests: ANGLE [2] [3]. This allows for requesting rotated maps. 
The value that the ANGLE param expects is an angle in decimal degrees, 
with 0 pointing North and increasing in clockwise direction.

Using this feature would improve print output in the MapFish print 
module, because labels on rotated WMS maps would not be rotated any 
more, improving readability and style of the resulting print image.

Does anybody have interest and resources to implement this?

Regards,
Andreas

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_York_Code_Sprint_2010
[2] http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3332
[3] http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-3361

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Andreas Hocevar
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