Tried sending this to the Dev list this morning, but it doesn't seem to have made it.
TH ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:57 AM Subject: Hiding Layers in OGC Web Services ¶ To: [email protected] Hi all, Hope it's appropriate to post this question here. I was just wondering about the status of the issue described here: http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/HidingLayersInOGCWebServices Recently I revisited this issue and dusted off an old WMS manual that seemed to have the elements of the solution I desired. Perhaps I am being overly optimistic, but I thought I should ask if this approach has already been considered, or how it could be used via MapServer. Specifically, I am interested in being able to serve a group of layers (say a base map composed of many layers with nice cartography) and have that group only visible in my GetCapabilities as a single entry. I don not want my users to be able to look inside my base map group and request the individual component layers (like roads, streams, etc). >From this old WMS manual I have, it seems this should be possible using different combinations of the Layer Name and Title elements in GetCapabilities. here is the relevant quote: "A Map Server which advertises a Layer containing a Name element MUST be able to accept that Name as the value of LAYERS argument in a GetMap request and return the corresponding map. A viewer Client MUST NOT attempt to request a Layer that has a Title but no Name." So from this it looks like the behavior I want would be possible if I could somehow get MapServer to allow me to advertise a Name and Title for my basemap group, but only a Title (and no Name) element for the Layers inside that group. Hope I am making sense here. I can tell a lot of people have looked at this, so I'm not sure this is a helpful additional perspective, but I just had to ask! Tanya _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
