I discussed this issue with Tom K. on the IRC yesterday, and he thought
it was of general interest and should be posted and potentially
requested as a feature.
Scenario: we have a Geologic map that has super complex cartography that
we don't want to reproduce in the mapfile (600+ classes, tons of
patterns, etc). So we dumped out a raster of it to serve as WMS.
However, when the user does a GetFeatureInfo on this WMS, we want to
return attribute data from the original shapefile.
I can envision this being taken care of at the layer level as a metadata
tag like "WMS_query_redirect".
In the short term we're working on a little apache mod_rewrite magic to
take care of it :-)
Cheers,
Percy
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David Percy
Geospatial Data Manager
Geology Department
Portland State University
http://gisgeek.pdx.edu
503-725-3373
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