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> -----Original Message----- > From: Yewondwossen Assefa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 21 October, 2005 09:41 > To: Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] wms_attribution element for LAYER's > > > I have added the patch you sent. Bug 1502 is tracking this change. > > Latet, > > > Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote: > >>Dear all, > >>While setting up WMS/WCS/WFS services we noticed that the > >>attribution > >>URL and related information can be used at the MAP level METADATA, > >>but not at the LAYER level METADATA. We would very much > like to see > >>that information appear at the layer level to ensure we properly > >>acknowledge data providers (the icon and URL are used to > display an > >>attribution logo next to each layer when the information is > >>present. Would it be possible to also have these elements > >>reflected at LAYER > >>level? > >> > >>Here's what we use: > >> > >> "wms_attribution_onlineresource" > >>"http://www.fao.org/"; > >> > >>"wms_attribution_title" "Data from > the Food > >>and Agriculture Organization (FAO)" > >> "wms_attribution_logourl_width" > > >>"20" > >> "wms_attribution_logourl_height" > "20" > >> "wms_attribution_logourl_format" > >>"image/png" > >> "wms_attribution_logourl_href" > >>"http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/images/FAO_very_small.jpg"; > >> > > > > > > This would be a good idea. The attribution stuff applies currently > > only to the root Layer element in Capabilities XML. Doing > it at the > > layer level shouldn't be too hard (i.e. calling > msWMSPrintAttribution > > in mapwms.c). Infact, I just tried this: > > > > 1./ > > > > Insert in mapwms.c, line 1361: > > > > msWMSPrintAttribution(stdout, " ", &(lp->metadata), "MO"); > > > > 2./ > > > > Add the wms_attribution_* metadata at the LAYER/METADATA level. > > > > ..and it works as expected. > > > > Jeroen: perhaps you can file an enhancement to bugzilla? > Or is this > > minor enough for one of the developers to commit? Note > that we would > > also > > > > ..Tom > > > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Assefa Yewondwossen > Software Analyst > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.dmsolutions.ca/ > > Phone: (613) 565-5056 (ext 14) > Fax: (613) 565-0925 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > >
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