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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=763295920-27112009>I have been working
for a while with WMS layers served by MapServer at they work great. One
thing I was wondering about: What are the wms_title and wms_group_title
tags actually good for ?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=763295920-27112009>When I tried to use
them to access a WMS they actually don't work (in a http request as layer
names), instead with MapServer the MapServer layer names has to be used (at
least in all cases I checked). So for example I have a group of river layer in
my map file just like the one below:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=763295920-27112009>LAYER<BR> NAME
"Rivers"<BR> GROUP "Rivers"<BR> TYPE LINE<BR> DUMP true<BR>
METADATA <BR> "wms_group_title"
"the_rivers"<BR> "wms_title"
"the_rivers"<BR> "wms_srs" "epsg:4326"<BR>
"wms_feature_info_mime_type" "text/html"
<BR> END<BR>...</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=763295920-27112009>So "Rivers" I can
use to get the layer in a getmap request but not "the_rivers". So is there any
use for "wms_group_title" and "wms_title" ?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=763295920-27112009>How is this handled
by other map rendering engines (Geoserver, Mapnik , Degree?)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=763295920-27112009>Thanks so much<BR></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Karsten</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P></BODY></HTML>