Hi john, simply omit the whole STYLE in the class, this make the layer transparent. Or, if this seems dirty, set COLOR -1 -1 -1 and OUTLINECOLOR -1 -1 -1. In fact the TRANSPARENCY 1 render a very faded layer, while TRANSPARENCY 0 is like TRANSPARENCY 100...
(TRANSPARENCY is deprecated in ms5, use OPACITY) let me know, ciao .....................................pg -- Pietro Giannini Bytewise srl - Area GIS 41°50'38.58"N 12°29'13.39"E On Lun, Novembre 17, 2008 17:00, ntiamoah bernard wrote: > Hi guys, > I need suggestions for the following problem: > > I want to put transparency on polygon layer so that aerial photo could be > seen below it. I have tried TRANSPARECY and OPACITY but i only get faded > not transparent layer. My imagetype is PNG. Here is the mapfile > > MAP > NAME 'School_boundary' > SIZE 800 650 > STATUS ON > EXTENT 347683.125124 1652890.274125 458837.845673 1759026.124282 > UNITS feet > FONTSET '../fonts/fonts.list' > SYMBOLSET '../symbols/symbol.sym' > OUTPUTFORMAT > NAME 'png' > DRIVER GD/PNG > IMAGEMODE RGBA > EXTENSION "png" > FORMATOPTION "FULL_RESOLUTION=TRUE" > FORMATOPTION "INTERLACE=OFF" > TRANSPARENT ON > END #end outputformat > #IMAGETYPE PNG > QUERYMAP > STATUS ON > STYLE SELECTED > END > WEB > IMAGEURL "/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp/" > IMAGEPATH "/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp/" > END > LEGEND > STATUS ON > END > > LAYER > NAME 'School_district' > TYPE POLYGON > DATA > '/ms4w/apps/GeoMOOSE/maps_countydemo/social_service/school_boundaries.shp' > METADATA > 'wms_title' 'school_boundary' > END > STATUS DEFAULT > TRANSPARENCY 20 > #MAXSCALE 2000000 > LABELITEM 'NAME' > CLASS > NAME 'esn_boundary' > STYLE > SYMBOL 0 > SIZE 2 > OUTLINECOLOR 0 255 170 > COLOR 224 255 255 > END > LABEL > TYPE TRUETYPE > FONT arial > SIZE 8 > COLOR 233 122 100 > ANGLE 0 > POSITION CC > MINDISTANCE 250 > BUFFER 1 > WRAP " " > END > END > END > END > > Thanks > John > Indiana > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
