[Geomoose-users] where to look for errors - Trouble with URLs

[Sacha Black]

Thanks Dan

those hints did the trick... the problem for the WMS layer was the
"&" typo in the mapbook

and for the parks layer, changing status to DEFAULT did the trick.

now to build a good example for next week's demo....

sacha

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Dan Little <danlittle at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Sacha,
>
> There are two different bugs, can you send the Mapbook fragment defining the WMS service? I think it may have a typo that is putting in the extra semi-colon.
>
> The other problem can be fixed in two ways:
> 1) Set the layer status to "default."  In GM 1.X this is the typical way of defining a layer.
> 2) Set the "layers" param in the <map> tag...
> <map title="Something" ...>
> <file>...</file>
>
> <param name="layers" value="mylayername"/>
>
> </map>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Sacha Black <sacha.black at gmail.com>
>> To: geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2009 6:08:29 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] where to look for errors - Trouble with URLs
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Fischer, Brian
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Sacha,
>> >
>> > Your best option will be to use firebug to see what javascript errors it
>> > is giving you.  If there are no javascript errors, than you will want to
>> > look at the URL that is being generated to call mapserver to make the
>> > image.  Those will also show up in firebug under the net tab.  Hope this
>> > helps,
>> >
>> > Brian
>>
>> --------------------
>>
>> Thanks Brian,
>>
>> Firebug is helping me figure things out.
>>
>> First I had issues with the symbolset and fonts paths, and once that
>> was sorted, I came to 2 errors that I think are being generated by
>> GeoMOOSE when it creates the URLs to send to Mapserver. I'm sure I
>> probably missed something in setup that is causing the problem.
>>
>> If anyone has any idea about either of these problems I would be most
>> grateful for the hints...
>>
>> sacha
>>
>> --------------------------------
>>
>> here is an example of the first error with a regular, local, non-WMS layer:
>>
>> http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/ms4w/apps/geomoose/maps_mydemo/./parks/parks_8bit.map&mapext=-834744.6077081193%20655019.564290853%201608541.8577081193%201224697.755709147&mapsize=965%20225&mode=map&layers=&MOOSETIME=1231371797094
>>
>> the problem looks like the name of the layer is not being inserted
>> after "&layers=" .... knowing where to specify this in my GeoMOOSE
>> setup will help alot, as this is happening for all my local layers. If
>> it helps, here is the relevant mapfile layer:
>>
>> LAYER
>>   NAME  State_Park
>>   STATUS ON
>>   TYPE  POLYGON
>>   LABELITEM "Name"
>>   DATA "C:/mydata/parks_w_linebreaks.shp"
>> CLASS
>> NAME 'National, State or Local Park'
>>   STYLE
>>    COLOR  168 203 150
>>   END
>>     label
>>       type truetype
>>       antialias true
>>       font tuffy_bold
>>       size 7
>>       position cc
>>       color 35 73 27
>>       outlinecolor 255 255 255
>>       buffer 5
>>       partials false
>>       minfeaturesize 100
>>       wrap "*"
>>       end
>> END
>> END
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------
>>
>> I have a second, different problem with the one WMS layer I am trying
>> to use, that is also a result of a badly formed URL, and in this case
>> I do not know if the problem is mine or not.
>>
>> for the following WMS layer:
>>
>> LAYER
>>     GROUP "Color Photos 2005"
>>     NAME "Ortho2005"
>>     TYPE RASTER
>>     CONNECTIONTYPE WMS
>>     STATUS OFF
>>     TRANSPARENCY 65
>>     CONNECTION "http://wms.oregonexplorer.info/ImageX/ecw_wms.dll?"
>>     PROJECTION
>>       "init=epsg:2992"
>>     END
>>     METADATA
>>       "wms_srs"             "EPSG:2992"
>>       "WMS_name"        "2005ORTHOIMAGERY.ECW"
>>       "wms_server_version"  "1.1.1"
>>       "wms_format"          "image/png"
>>       "wms_transparent"        "TRUE"
>>       "wms_bgcolor"         "0x000000"
>>       IMAGEFORMAT "AGGA"
>>     END
>>     PROJECTION
>>       "init=epsg:2992"
>>     END
>> END
>>
>> GeoMOOSE is creating the following URL which is broken because of the
>> ";" after the "FORMAT=image/png" :
>>
>> http://wms.oregonexplorer.info/ImageX/ecw_wms.dll?LAYERS=2005ORTHOIMAGERY.ECW&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&STYLES=&FORMAT=image/png;SRS=EPSG:2992&BBOX=-834744.6077081193,655019.564290853,1608541.8577081193,1224697.755709147&WIDTH=965&HEIGHT=225&MOOSETIME=1231372918836
>>
>> This second error seems like it could be a bug in GeoMOOSE, but I
>> don't know enough to know.
>>
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