[Mapserver-users] FW: WMS Client for ArcView 3.X

[Julia Harrell]

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From: Julia Harrell [mailto:julia.harrell at ncmail.net] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 2:24 PM
To: julia.harrell at ncmail.net
Subject: RE: WMS Client for ArcView 3.X



>> WMS Client for ArcView 3.X

This is a nice extension and has a lot of
potential whenever the GetFeatureInfo becomes
a reality. Thanks for Refractions for building it!

I was experimenting with breaking our many-layered WMS 
map services into a number of separate OGC files, and 
discovered that even though my WMS Mapservice outputs both
transparent pngs and gifs, that the images the av wms connector 
brings into Arcview are not transparent. Unless there are some 
other Av extensions that I haven't heard of, Arcview 3x
doesn't understand pngs and gifs, so these must be
Jpgs or something else that does not support transparency??
Does anyone have any workarounds or suggestions for fooling 
the colormaps into thinking that 255,255,255 is the 
'transparent' color, so I can look at more than one layer
At a time ?

I checked Shane's "magic log file" and saw the connector
is asking for gif images. I guess that dll the
Connector installs is converting these gifs on the fly
to something Arcview 3x supports. Where is this connector 
stashing its' images? I'm seeing a lot of ximg.bip & ximg.hdr 
files in my Documents and Settings\xxx\Local Settings\Temp 
directory that have the right timestamps - is this them? 
I tried opening them in Irfanview and PSP, but neither 
could read them, and I tried loading them into Arcview,
but get nothing viewable....

Example County & City Boundaries request:
 
http://204.211.135.111/servlet/com.esri.wms.Esrimap?SERVICENAME=cgia_defwms&
Format=image/gif&Version=1.1.0&Layers=CountyBoundary,CityLimit2001&Styles=&R
equest=getmap&Srs=EPSG:4326&bbox=%2D78%2E694869401434005,35%2E68303912973367
9,%2D78%2E438688814369328,35%2E903327035616023&width=935&height=803&Exceptio
ns=application/vnd.ogc.se_xml&

Example Roads request

http://204.211.135.111/servlet/com.esri.wms.Esrimap?SERVICENAME=cgia_defwms&
Format=image/gif&Version=1.1.0&Layers=LocalRoads,NCSecRoutes,PrimRoutes,Inte
rstates,BlueRidgeParkway&Styles=&Request=getmap&Srs=EPSG:4326&bbox=%2D78%2E6
94869401434005,35%2E683039129733679,%2D78%2E438688814369328,35%2E90332703561
6023&width=935&height=803&Exceptions=application/vnd.ogc.se_xml&


Thanks much for any suggestions,

Julia Harrell
NC CGIA