Hi, I am sure that layer names should not begin with a number by WMS standard, or perhaps it is XML in the background. Numbers are allowed later in the name but as the first character. However, I think this is just nice to know because I do not know any WMS client that would deny to use such layers. One reason may be that until rather recently all the ESRI WMS servers always created layer name starting with a number and there was no way to change that. So go ahead with numbers if you feel so, you are not alone.
I had a try with QGis 1.9 (Master) and it is listing very nice all WMS layer names, titles and abstracts. What QGis version do you use? -Jukka Rahkonen- ________________________________________ duartecarreira wrote: > Jukka, thanks for your reply. > Some wms clients do not use the title from layers. They only show the name (eg qgis). > As it stands, my wms server creates wms layers names automatically from my map project, either as a numeric sequence (0,1,2...) or the same string as the title. (have you guessed which server it is?) So I was trying to show qgis users something more meaningful than numbers. And at the same time I was using MapServer to coalesce several layers into one meaningful single layer, since WMC is so rarelly supported... this way my users don't have to look at a list of layers and figure out which should be used together to have a readable map. Since wms services are expensive in server resources I tend to publish several layers in each one. > So I guess I'll show layers named as numbers and leave it at that... > Duarte -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/cascading-wms-and-layer-names-encoding-tp5058504p5058782.html Sent from the Mapserver - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ 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
