I was just replying along the same lines... :) On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Stephen Woodbridge <wood...@swoodbridge.com> wrote: > On 8/23/2012 1:31 PM, Ian Walberg wrote: >> >> Hello folks, >> >> We need to be able to display a different small image from each point in >> a data set, say along the lines of a thumbnail. >> >> From what I can see this could be done my defining each image as a >> symbol and then referencing that. >> >> However what we would like to be able to do is get the image file name >> as part of the query and display the image based on that. >> >> Is this possible? > > > I have done this by creating a column with the filename in it. You can then > use the column as a symbol name or symbol path or as attribute column in wfs > to OpenLayers that can then be used to point to a thumbnail directory of > fullsize directory of images. > > LAYER > NAME "images" > TYPE POINT > DATA "myImagePoints" > CLASS > STYLE > SYMBOL ("/path/to/thumbs/"+'[FILENAME]') > END > END > END > > Where column FILENAME has something like 'myimage.png' and to do this you > are probably limited to gif, jpg, and png images only. svg will NOT work.
gif and png are the only options. jpeg is not. -- thomas > > -Steve W > > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users