RE: [mapserver-users] Dynamic intersection color with MapServer?

2009-05-09 Thread kreshna_icehe...@yahoo.com
Thanks, Jim Steve. Yes, I guess I have to use postgreSQL query to define the intersection layer (using intersect spatial query). I still wonder about something, though. Let say I have the following layers: layer A, layer B, and layer C. Layer C is the distinctly-colored intersection layer,

Re: [mapserver-users] Dynamic intersection color with MapServer?

2009-05-08 Thread Steve Lime
You have to use a tool like PostgreSQL/PostGIS to do such a thing. It can create true geometries based on the intersection of other geometries. You'd have to do this as two separate layers though, AB intersections and AC intersections since the intersections would be defined in the connection

RE: [mapserver-users] Dynamic intersection color with MapServer?

2009-05-08 Thread Jim Strevinas
Hi Kreshna, I don't think it is possible to achieve this with the cgi. Possibly some application logic using mapscript could do. I have a simpler idea though, if the map will be used for just presenting the data (not analysing) you could assign an OPACITY parameter to the layers A,B,C and color