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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Hi Paul,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>I had a similar problem some
time ago - as I'm running MapServer from a Windows server, I put it down at the
time to this bug:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>If you are running under
Windows and you do get it working with the date pattern YYYYMMDD, I'd be
extremely interested in finding out how you did it :)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers,</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> UMN MapServer Users List on behalf of Paul
Tildesley<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wed 9/11/2005 11:46 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Problem
using tileindex for time dimension<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>I am trying to implement a layer with a time dimension in
MapServer to<BR>serve a set of raster images covering 6 months.<BR><BR>I have
created a tile index that looks like this:<BR><BR>INFO: Open of
`tindex.shp'<BR>using driver `ESRI Shapefile' successful.<BR><BR>Layer name:
tindex<BR>Geometry: Polygon<BR>Feature Count: 91<BR>Extent: (79.969000,
-65.015900) - (190.057000, 10.044100)<BR>Layer SRS
WKT:<BR>(unknown)<BR>location: String (254.0)<BR>time_stamp: String
(8.0)<BR>OGRFeature(tindex):0<BR> location (String) =
SSTcomp10d_Aasia_2002_1_1_0.tif<BR> time_stamp (String) =
20020101<BR> POLYGON ((79.96900000
10.04410000,190.05700000<BR>10.04410000,190.05700000
-65.01590000,79.96900000<BR>-65.01590000,79.96900000
10.04410000))<BR><BR>OGRFeature(tindex):1<BR> location (String) =
SSTcomp10d_Aasia_2002_1_11_0.tif<BR> time_stamp (String) =
20020111<BR> POLYGON ((79.96900000
10.04410000,190.05700000<BR>10.04410000,190.05700000
-65.01590000,79.96900000<BR>-65.01590000,79.96900000
10.04410000))<BR><BR>OGRFeature(tindex):2<BR> location (String) =
SSTcomp10d_Aasia_2002_1_13_0.tif<BR> time_stamp (String) =
20020113<BR> POLYGON ((79.96900000
10.04410000,190.05700000<BR>10.04410000,190.05700000
-65.01590000,79.96900000<BR>-65.01590000,79.96900000
10.04410000))<BR><BR><BR>For a total of 90 tiles. I then reference this in my
map file as<BR>follows:<BR><BR>LAYER<BR> NAME sst_timeset<BR> TYPE
RASTER<BR> TILEINDEX tindex<BR> STATUS ON<BR>
METADATA<BR> WMS_TITLE "Australian Region SST January to June
2002"<BR> WMS_ABSTRACT "Sea-surface temperature for the
Australian region. Ten<BR>day composites every second
day."<BR> WMS_TIMEFORMAT "YYYYMMDD"<BR>
WMS_TIMEEXTENT "20020101/20020630"<BR> WMS_TIMEDEFAULT
"20020101"<BR> WMS_TIMEITEM "time_stamp"<BR>
END<BR> OFFSITE 255 255 255<BR><BR> DUMP TRUE<BR>END<BR><BR>When I
access the layer, either with or without specifying a time, I<BR>always get the
last tile rendered, which happens to be 20020608 (I am<BR>assuming that the
tiles do not need to be in time increasing order).<BR><BR>An example request
is:<BR><A
href="http://www.marine.csiro.au/mapserver/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/srv/www/htdocs">http://www.marine.csiro.au/mapserver/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/srv/www/htdocs</A><BR>/sst/sst_multi.map&VERSION=1.1.1&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&SRS=EPSG:432<BR>6&FORMAT=image/gif&EXCEPTIONS=application/vnd.ogc.sexml&WIDTH=400&HEIGHT<BR>=250&LAYERS=sst_timeset&TIME=20020401<BR><BR>Does
anyone know what I am doing wrong? Any ideas or suggestions would<BR>be
appreciated.<BR><BR>Paul.<BR></FONT></P></DIV>
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