Sorry about wrong information concerning ESRI servers and WMS layer Names. I thought that ArcIMS is always using names beginning with numbers but obviously it can also convert Titles into Names (even if Title contains invalid characters) and I am not sure at all how layer Names are configured with ArcGIS server. Perhaps it in no more possible to create invalid Names.
-Jukka- ________________________________________ Rahkonen Jukka wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
