Re: [mapserver-users] Extreme data-driven Symbology with CGI mapserver

2010-03-26 Thread Brent Fraser
Steve, Many thanks for the thoughtful reply. I haven't looked at Mapserver's rendering logic yet, but as the CLASS NAME binding would only be relevant for MODE=LEGEND, perhaps there could be a separate bit of code developed for generating a data-driven legend. The use of the INCLUDE in

RE: [mapserver-users] Extreme data-driven Symbology with CGI mapserver

2010-03-26 Thread Lime, Steve D (DNR)
Hi Brent: Producing legends with bound styling is indeed problematic. MapServer has no way to know how many variations are possible and it doesn't cache those encountered in a map draw. Binding a class name might help but the binding is at the feature level and a class name would generally apply