Unfortunately it's not always practical to aim for exactly one rule applying at any scale. For example a roads layer will usually show highways and residential roads at the same scale.
In my WMS roads layer all road features are contained in a single Shapefile with an attribute indicating road type, so I style them all using a single SLD. I want highways to show on top of residential roads so I do need to worry about z-ordering. In some cases I only want to show one type of road but I want something like a thick green line with a slightly thicker grey line behind it to provide an outline. Again, this requires multiple rules at the same scale and makes z-ordering important. Given the number of different types of roads it is not practical (and presumably bad for performance) to break them out into different layers and different SLDs. -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/SLD-drawing-order-tp4948595p4950831.html Sent from the GeoServer - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
