SVG and WMS

Yewondwossen Assefa assefa at DMSOLUTIONS.CA
Thu Apr 7 13:51:51 EDT 2005


Frank is right. Bug 455 describes the issue. It was set to be adressed
in the "FUTURE" while releasing 4.4. I have set the taget to 4.6 but I
am not 100% sure if it will be adressed on time before the code freeze.

Later,

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> On Apr 7, 2005 1:00 PM, Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] <Tom.Kralidis at ec.gc.ca> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Question: is the newly implemented SVG support in MapServer available as
>>a WMS GetMap format?  I did a GetCapabilities against latest CVS and it
>>was not part of the MIME types supported for GetMap Formats.
>>
>>(NB: I have enabled SVG support by adding -DUSE_SVG to Makefile
>>manually).
>
>
> Tom,
>
> I believe that Assefa deliberately disabled most "non-image"
> formats from being returned as WMS formats before 4.4.0 was
> released.  I am presuming SVG is falling into this category along
> with stuff like flash and "html".
>
> Best regards,
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