Re: [mapserver-users] WMS raster display,getfeatureinfo from vector layer

2008-07-11 Thread percy
I'm starting to think that just handling this with a mapscript wrapper script might be the easiest approach. Any thoughts? Thanks, Percy percy wrote: thanks, nice idea. I tried it, and that did not work... relevant mapfile section: LAYER NAME Geologic_Map_Of_North_America TYPE RASTER

RE: [mapserver-users] WMS raster display, getfeatureinfo from vectorlayer

2008-07-11 Thread Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]
You could use a mapscript WxS wrapper to, when receiving a GetFeatureInfo request, replace the LAYERS/QUERY_LAYERS parameters with the vector layer. ..Tom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of percy Sent: Fri 11-Jul-08 10:38 To: mapserver Cc: Steve Lime Subject: Re:

RE: [mapserver-users] WMS raster display, getfeatureinfo from vectorlayer

2008-07-11 Thread Bruce Cheney
Just a couple of thoughts - shouldn't your type be Polygon if you are referring to your polygon shapefile? Then make the symbology for this layer nonintrusive (so the users don't see it). I believe your query will reference the NAME item to obtain specific feature information. LAYER NAME

Re: [mapserver-users] New limitations with mapserver 5 CGI

2008-07-11 Thread Steve Lime
We aren't limited solely to the lexer. DATA and TEMPLATE, the two most widely used CGI overrides have a second control: DATAPATTERN and TEMPLATEPATTERN. When in a particular parsing state we check the appropriate pattern (which NULL, or unmatchable, by default) to decide if we should accept the

[mapserver-users] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Quick Survey

2008-07-11 Thread Steve Lime
Hi all: The OSGeo folks are looking for info to aid in conference planning... Steve On 7/11/2008 at 2:22 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've got some good responses so far to the OSGeo Survey re: FOSS4G and other conferences. I know we

Re: [mapserver-users] [Scalebar] Wrong values

2008-07-11 Thread Steve Lime
Unfortunately MapServer only supports 1 scalebar object so you're kinda stuck unless you change things from your interface. For example, you could get at the scale in a templated interface via the [scale] tag and with a little javascript you could change the UNITS parameter for the scalebar.

Re: [mapserver-users] legend and layer opacity

2008-07-11 Thread Steve Lime
I think your stuck. I consider this a bug (probably) so if you'd be so kind as to file a ticket we can take a look for the 5.4 release or perhaps earlier depending on how difficult the solution is. One work around, although not a great one, would be do develop the image to use for a given

Re: [mapserver-users] WMS raster display, getfeatureinfo from vectorlayer

2008-07-11 Thread percy
Bruce, thanks for the suggestion. That might work, and I might try it at some point, but I need this to work across all clients, and what I've noticed is that even if have layers named the same thing, each instance shows up in the list of available layers to the client. Then if the user selects

[mapserver-users] CGI controls - Symbol

2008-07-11 Thread Ben Brehmer
Dear All, Just wondering if there are any known problems when trying to modify a symbol via the URL in Mapserver 5.0.3. I am trying to do on-the-fly symbol changes with the CGI variables as follows: ...map.layer[0].CLASS[0].STYLE[0]=SYMBOL+'./blue_star.gif'... The above produces no