Thanks Wim, this did the trick. It works if I use gif and annotations/text in grey. Unfortunately is the text rather unreadable, so I consider using WFS and XSL for KML translation.
If I use png I get an error message in Google Earth "Unsupported image format". This could be related to the poor graphics card in my notebook, ref. http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/101072/Main/98160 I'll try it out with better HW also. I use Miller projection (epsg:54003) in my shapefiles. cheers Joern On Tuesday 31 January 2006 14:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Joern, > > There seems to be a problem with transparency in the display of Mapserver's > WMS in google earth. I did not solve it but think it has to do with the > number of colors that is in the resulting (WMS) gif. In my demo project I > solved this by using annotation in a gray color (100 100 100). A black > annotation did produce a non-transparent picture and a gray annotation did > produce a transparent picture. Seems like a bug in the way Google uses > external images.... > > Regards, > > Wim Blanken > The Netherlands > > Quoting Jørn Vegard Røsnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > > > has anyone managed to get Google Earth to display Mapserver WMS images > > without white background? > > My WMS request includes TRANSPARENT=true. > > > > cheers > > Joern
