Thanks Dane, That worked great!.
My open street map layer is my bottom/base layer so I don't need to worry about transparency so is their any benefit in me adding TRANSPARENT=<bool> to the query string? John On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Dane Springmeyer <[email protected]>wrote: > Yes, I've always found the background color setting odd with the OGCServer, > but I assume that is it simply matching the WMS spec. > > To get the standard OSM background color, you need to send the HEX color in > the Query string, but replace the '#' with '0x', so something like: > > BGCOLOR=0xb5d0d0 > > Also note the additional variable you can send of TRANSPARENT=<bool> > > Lastly, keep in mind that although the OGGServer is a bit buried in the > Mapnik code base, it simply a few python scripts and you should (as others > should) feel free to peek inside and provide patches for additional > functionality: > > http://trac.mapnik.org/browser/trunk/bindings/python/mapnik/ogcserver > > Dane > > > > On Nov 7, 2009, at 1:06 AM, John Mitchell wrote: > > Hi, >> >> I have been using the Mapnik OGC server to display open street map data >> and it looks identical to tiles that I generated via generate_tiles.py >> except that the background instead of the being blue is white. I noticed in >> the osm.xml that near the top of the file it has the below line: >> <Map bgcolor="#b5d0d0" srs="+proj=merc +a=6378137 +b=6378137 +lat_ts=0.0 >> +lon_0=0.0 +x_0=0.0 +y_0=0 +k=1.0 +units=m +nadgri...@null +no_defs +over"> >> >> This sets the background color which is used by generate_tiles.py but not >> for a WMS request when LAYERS=__all__. >> Also I noticed that the land at world and medium scales are a very lite >> pink instead of being white but that may just be the contrast with the white >> background instead of the blue background. >> >> John >> >> -- >> John J. Mitchell >> _______________________________________________ >> Mapnik-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users >> > > -- John J. Mitchell
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