You could use a mapscript WxS wrapper to, when receiving a GetFeatureInfo request, replace the LAYERS/QUERY_LAYERS parameters with the vector layer.
..Tom -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of percy Sent: Fri 11-Jul-08 10:38 To: mapserver Cc: Steve Lime Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] WMS raster display,getfeatureinfo from vectorlayer I'm starting to think that just handling this with a mapscript wrapper script might be the easiest approach. Any thoughts? Thanks, Percy percy wrote: > thanks, nice idea. I tried it, and that did not work... > > relevant mapfile section: > > LAYER > NAME "Geologic_Map_Of_North_America" > TYPE RASTER > STATUS ON > data "/vol/www/ngmdb/htdocs/GMNA_INDEX_tiled.tif" > maxscale 10000000 > MINSCALE 500000 > Metadata > "WMS_TITLE" "Geologic Map Of North America" > "WMS_SRS" "epsg:4326" > END # metadata > END #layer > LAYER > NAME "Geologic_Map_Of_North_America" > TYPE query > STATUS On > data GMNA_S_OneGeo > TOLERANCE 0 > TOLERANCEUNITS pixels > TRANSFORM TRUE > DUMP TRUE > HEADER "templates/GMNA_query_header.html" > TEMPLATE "templates/GMNA_query_body.html" > FOOTER "templates/GMNA_query_footer.html" > Metadata > "WMS_TITLE" "Geologic Map Of North America" > "WMS_SRS" "epsg:4326" > GML_INCLUDE_ITEMS > "DisplayNam,OneGeology,Lithologic,GeologicAg,AgeMin,AgeMax,AgeMetadat" > WMS_INCLUDE_ITEMS > "DisplayNam,OneGeology,Lithologic,GeologicAg,AgeMin,AgeMax,AgeMetadat" > END # metadata > END #layer > > > Steve Lime wrote: >> What about using GROUPs or layers with the same name where the second >> layer >> is TYPE QUERY? >> >> Steve >> >>>>> On 7/10/2008 at 2:14 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, percy >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> 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 >> >> > -- David Percy Geospatial Data Manager Geology Department Portland State University http://gisgeek.pdx.edu 503-725-3373 _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
