wms_attribution element for LAYER's

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

thx -- this is what I love about open source software :)

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> From: Yewondwossen Assefa [mailto:assefa at dmsolutions.ca] 
> Sent: Friday, 21 October, 2005 09:41
> To: Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]
> Cc: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] wms_attribution element for LAYER's
> 
> 
> I have added the patch you sent. Bug 1502 is tracking this change.
> 
> Latet,
> 
> 
> Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:
> >>Dear all,
> >>While setting up WMS/WCS/WFS services we noticed that the
> >>attribution  
> >>URL and related information can be used at the MAP level METADATA,  
> >>but not at the LAYER level METADATA. We would very much 
> like to see  
> >>that information appear at the layer level to ensure we properly  
> >>acknowledge data providers (the icon and URL are used to 
> display an  
> >>attribution logo next to each layer when the information is 
> >>present. Would it be possible to also have these elements 
> >>reflected at LAYER  
> >>level?
> >>
> >>Here's what we use:
> >>
> >>                         "wms_attribution_onlineresource"         
> >>"http://www.fao.org/"
> >>                          
> >>"wms_attribution_title"                          "Data from 
> the Food  
> >>and Agriculture Organization (FAO)"
> >>                         "wms_attribution_logourl_width"    
>           
> >>"20"
> >>                         "wms_attribution_logourl_height"   
>       "20"
> >>                         "wms_attribution_logourl_format"          
> >>"image/png"
> >>                         "wms_attribution_logourl_href"            
> >>"http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/images/FAO_very_small.jpg"
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > This would be a good idea.  The attribution stuff applies currently 
> > only to the root Layer element in Capabilities XML.  Doing 
> it at the 
> > layer level shouldn't be too hard (i.e. calling 
> msWMSPrintAttribution 
> > in mapwms.c).  Infact, I just tried this:
> > 
> > 1./
> > 
> > Insert in mapwms.c, line 1361:
> > 
> > msWMSPrintAttribution(stdout, "    ", &(lp->metadata), "MO");
> > 
> > 2./
> > 
> > Add the wms_attribution_* metadata at the LAYER/METADATA level.
> > 
> > ..and it works as expected.
> > 
> > Jeroen: perhaps you can file an enhancement to bugzilla?  
> Or is this 
> > minor enough for one of the developers to commit?  Note 
> that we would 
> > also
> > 
> > ..Tom
> > 
> > 
> 
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