[Mapserver-users] time support

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bob.basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us 
> [mailto:bob.basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 1:17 PM
> To: Mapserver List
> Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] time support
> 
> 
> Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:
> 
> >  
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: bob.basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us 
> >>[mailto:bob.basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us] 
> >>Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 10:45 AM
> >>To: Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]
> >>Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] time support
> >>
> >>
> >>Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>>Thanks for the info.  We are looking forward to this functionality.
> >>>
> >>>As for my specific problem, here's a use case.
> >>>
> >>>Data: point data, with
> >>>
> >>>X  | Y | temperature | date
> >>>---------------------------------
> >>>-75|45 |25           |25-Aug-2003
> >>>---------------------------------
> >>>.....
> >>>
> >>>We have, on a daily basis, 160 years worth or records.
> >>>
> >>>Scenario:
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>All,
> >>
> >>A couple of words of encouragment. . . .
> >>
> >>This whole conversation about temporal records is very 
> >>interesting, it's 
> >>also a very big reason why I've not jumped onto the OGC 
> >>bandwagon arly 
> >>on.  We have 25 different versions of aerial photo's 
> >>available from all 
> >>the way back to the 1920's.  Trying to figure out a way to 
> distribute 
> >>(and display) these types of information in a practical 
> >>manner has been 
> >>nawing at me for some time.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >
> >Note that OGC:WMS has supported temporal querying since 1.1.0.
> >
> >..Tom
> >
> >  
> >
> Yes, but there was no way to say , give me all the stuff from 
> this date 
> to this date, in an inclusive fashion.  My understanding was that you 
> could query by date, but only with a single request per.  In 
> other words 
> you needed to know the date ahead of time vs having an indexed data 
> source to retrieve from.  This would make life much eaqsier for query 
> building functions based on grouped returns.
> 

You can do time-based queries with ranges and intervals from a single layer.
Is this what you mean?

..Tom


> >  
> >
> >>It's good to hear about the efforts in this direction.
> >>
> >>bobb
> >>
> >>
> >>    
> >>
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