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I'm connecting to a WMS server and found that the longitudes LatLonBoundingBox specified for some of the values are slightly outside of the +/-180 range (such as 180.05). Are these values considered valid (I couldn't find anything in the schema that seemed to enforcer a range)?

If they are valid, should they be treated as rounding errors (maybe the values were auto generated) and clamped to +/-180, or should they be normalized in the +/-180 range, so 180.05 might become -179.95?

Also note that in this particular case, the parent layer's bounds are listed as -90/90 and -180/180.

Thanks.

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You will run into problems trying to enforce a [-180,+180] range for longitudes of bounding boxes. This issue is examined in detail in another thread. – whuber♦ Jan 16 '12 at 20:07
Thanks - appreciate that. – Jeff Storey Jan 18 '12 at 5:21

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