Using WMS time dimension with rasters?

[Yewondwossen Assefa]

Jeroen Ticheler wrote:
> Hi!
> Happy to see this discussion and implementation progressing! This  
> (seeing more clients & servers with time support in WMS)  is indeed  
> very true. We are working to get temporal data online both as WMS and  
> WCS. Having a good support for that in MapServer would be a real  asset, 
> and actually allow us to use MapServer also for these data sets.
> 
> In fact, this also gets to the problem I faced so far while  
> implementing this; One common Map file will not do to have both a WMS  
> and WCS with time support running, they are slightly different in the  
> way they have to be configured (the WCS needs special layer that  gives 
> an error when accessing the service as WMS, at least that is  what I ran 
> into when following the different WMS and WCS time examples).
> Are there plans to align the two services?
> 

The short answer is yes :)  There is a bug opened on it (Bug 1506). Note 
that it will  be adressed only after the 4.8 release.

Later,

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