Thanks Bob, I think the second idea is more for what I am looking at. The styling (or adding the push pin icon) is already done, I know how to do that. The bigger issue is requesting the image with the point in the right location without a backing datastore (or at least one with the specific point). I suppose I could have a table which I populate on the fly, but how do I request just that one point from it and not other points from past requests?
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Bob Basques <[email protected]> wrote: > There are a couple of ways of doing this, one is to use a Client that > supports layer stacking in the interface, like GeoMoose or Openlayers, and > call separate images and then combine them printing. You would need to set > up the approriate environment for this approach and this might not be cost > effective to you. > > Another approach is to apply a symbol via a Mapserver served WMS service. > You could make the WMS call to a specific service name that has the PushPin > inserted into the center of the image (on top of the background layers you > specify) and already composited for output into a single image. You would > need to call this as a separate WMS call however. > > Going back to the Layered approach, you can also set up a marking system in > the client where3 the client decide to add the pushpin, and then print from > the client, GeoMoose can accomodate this approach as well, but it's a much > higher level of implemnentation. > > bobb > > > >>>> Robert Hicks <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello all! Ok, this is probably a long shot but, is there a way to > request an image from Mapserver that is just a point? The idea is I > have another larger (reference) map image and I want to place a push > pin on top of it in a specified point. It has to be a WMS call so that > I can take the image and merge it with the other larger map into one > so that it can be put into a PDF. Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks! > > -- > web http://www.hyxspace.com > aim hyx1138 > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > -- web http://www.hyxspace.com aim hyx1138 _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
