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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">Actually in the 1.x series of GeoMoose you could combine the layers into a single image, but you don't have the end user controls available for anything except turning the whole layer set (in geomoose) on/off, the 2.x series allows for single images as well as individual layer controls inside of the single images.</font> </p>
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For my two cents, I tried to put all layers into a single mapfile and thus have one map-source, but generally don’t do this any more because:<o p="#DEFAULT"></o> </p>
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The stack order of layers is set by the order of the layers in the map-source (top layer on top, then goes down from there)<o p="#DEFAULT"></o> </p>
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Opacity is set at the map-source level, thus all layers in a map-source would have the same opacity<o p="#DEFAULT"></o> </p>
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The fade-in and fade-out tools work at the map-source level, thus all layers would be changed when changing one in the catalog<o p="#DEFAULT"></o> </p>
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Tend to get a redraw of all layers in the map-source when turning one layer on/off<o p="#DEFAULT"></o> </p>
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I still combine “like” layers into one map-source and one mapfile, but watch how the layers are going to be displayed.<o p="#DEFAULT"></o> </p>
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Mark Volz [mailto:MarkVolz@co.lyon.mn.us]<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 18, 2010 8:46 AM<br><b>To:</b> geomoose-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br><b>Subject:</b> [Geomoose-users] Geomoose optimization... map source<o p="#DEFAULT"></o> </p>
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I would like to try to move all my layers into a single .map file so that only </p>
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one map with many layers is drawn at a time.  Is the standard practice to: </p>
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Create a single <map-source> with </p>
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Create </p>
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separate <map-source> tags that each have their own reference </p>
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For example which example between the two is a standard practice so only one map is drawn? </p>
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Next, </p>
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Is it okay to use this method for operational layers such as parcels? </p>
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Thanks </p>
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GIS Specialist </p>
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Lyon County, MN </p>
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