<div dir="ltr">Thanks to much help from Steve i was finally able to solve my problem and it was a naming error on the layer that wasn’t displaying. I was writing the name as 'kenyaoutline' on the url section while it should have been 'Kenyaoutline' as named on the mapfile. <br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Lime, Steve D (MNIT) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Steve.Lime@state.mn.us" target="_blank">Steve.Lime@state.mn.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Since you have no scale dependencies or anything like that I don’t know why… You have some spurious layer definitions (no need for TILEITEM or UNITS) but I don’t
think that’s the problem. The most obvious cause would be that you’re viewing an area where there is ocean but no Kenya. What happens if you request both layers in the same tile?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span><a href="http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?MAP=/var/wpsinput/gdss.map&layer=10m_ocean&layer=kenyaoutline&mode=tile&tile=$%7bx%7d+$%7by%7d+$%7bz%7d.png" target="_blank">http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?MAP=/var/wpsinput/gdss.map&layer=10m_ocean&layer=kenyaoutline&mode=tile&tile=${x}+${y}+${z}.png</a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Steve<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Daniel Mwaurah [mailto:<a href="mailto:mwaurah@gmail.com" target="_blank">mwaurah@gmail.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 23, 2015 4:30 PM</span></p><div><div class="h5"><br>
<b>To:</b> Lime, Steve D (MNIT) <<a href="mailto:Steve.Lime@state.mn.us" target="_blank">Steve.Lime@state.mn.us</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [mapserver-users] CGI Tilemode blank on one layer<u></u><u></u></div></div><p></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thats true Steve, <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Its actually rendering in the non tiled setting. I wonder how come its one layer not rendering in tilemode while the other one is. Both render ok in non tile setting.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Lime, Steve D (MNIT) <<a href="mailto:Steve.Lime@state.mn.us" target="_blank">Steve.Lime@state.mn.us</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">It will look at the extent of shapefiles to decide if it needs to process features in a layer but that’s
to be expected. I mean, if there’s nothing to draw then why bother. Have you verified that the layers render in a non-tiled setting?</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Daniel Mwaurah [mailto:<a href="mailto:mwaurah@gmail.com" target="_blank">mwaurah@gmail.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 23, 2015 3:26 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Lime, Steve D (MNIT) <<a href="mailto:Steve.Lime@state.mn.us" target="_blank">Steve.Lime@state.mn.us</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [mapserver-users] CGI Tilemode blank on one layer</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you Steve for your response. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have tried commenting out the extents but still the same problem. I think it recognizes the inbuilt extents of the data layers.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 9:36 PM, Lime, Steve D (MNIT) <<a href="mailto:Steve.Lime@state.mn.us" target="_blank">Steve.Lime@state.mn.us</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">What happens if you comment out the layer extents? They really shouldn’t be necessary.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> mapserver-users [mailto:<a href="mailto:mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Daniel Mwaurah<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 23, 2015 2:27 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [mapserver-users] CGI Tilemode blank on one layer</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">hallo people,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I would greatly appreciate some help with Mapserver Tile mode. Eeven a hint in the right direction would be much appreciated. I am trying to display two layers in Tile mode in open
layers as follows<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1.
<a href="http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?MAP=/var/wpsinput/gdss.map&layer=kenyaoutline&mode=tile&tile=$%7bx%7d+$%7by%7d+$%7bz%7d.png" target="_blank">
http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?MAP=/var/wpsinput/gdss.map&layer=kenyaoutline&mode=tile&tile=${x}+${y}+${z}.png</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2. <a href="http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?MAP=/var/wpsinput/gdss.map&layer=10m_ocean&mode=tile&tile=$%7bx%7d+$%7by%7d+$%7bz%7d.png" target="_blank">http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?MAP=/var/wpsinput/gdss.map&layer=10m_ocean&mode=tile&tile=${x}+${y}+${z}.png</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The problem arises in that one layer the 10m_ocean displays while the other one just shows a blank. I suspect it has to do with the extents because the 10m_ocean layers has a large
extent from -180 to 180 while the kenyaoutline layer only covers one country from about 33 to 37 degrees.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is there a limitation to small extents in tile mode? or what could be the problem. My mapfile is as below.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">MAP<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> #FONTSET "[fontsetpath]"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">DEBUG 5<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> CONFIG "MS_ERRORFILE" "/var/www/wpsinput/ms_error.txt"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> EXTENT 33 -5 42 6<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> IMAGETYPE "png"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> NAME "Natural_Earth_quick_start_for_QGIS"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> SIZE 600 600<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> CONFIG ON_MISSING_DATA "LOG"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> STATUS ON<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> UNITS DD<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> OUTPUTFORMAT<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> NAME "png"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> IMAGEMODE RGBA<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> TRANSPARENT TRUE<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> PROJECTION<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> "proj=longlat"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> "datum=WGS84"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> "no_defs"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> LEGEND<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> KEYSIZE 20 10<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> KEYSPACING 5 5<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> LABEL<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> SIZE MEDIUM<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> OFFSET 0 0<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> SHADOWSIZE 1 1<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> TYPE BITMAP<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> END # LABEL<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> STATUS OFF<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> QUERYMAP<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> SIZE -1 -1<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> STATUS OFF<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> STYLE HILITE<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> SCALEBAR<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> INTERVALS 4<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> LABEL<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> SIZE MEDIUM<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> OFFSET 0 0<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> SHADOWSIZE 1 1<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> TYPE BITMAP<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> SIZE 200 3<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> "ows_onlineresource" "<a href="http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/home/wpsinput/worldmap.map" target="_blank">http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/home/wpsinput/worldmap.map</a>"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> "ows_enable_request" "*"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> "ows_srs" "EPSG:4326"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> "ows_title" "Natural_Earth_quick_start_for_QGIS"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> LAYER<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> DATA "/var/www/10m_physical/10m_ocean.shp"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> EXTENT 33 -5 42 6<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> "ows_title" "10m_ocean"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> NAME "10m_ocean"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> "no_defs"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> TILEITEM "location"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> TYPE POLYGON<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> UNITS METERS<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> CLASS<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> COLOR 198 226 242<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> END # CLASS<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> END # LAYER<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">LAYER<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> DATA "/var/www/kenyaoutline/Kenyaoutline.shp"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> "ows_title" "Kenyaoutline"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> NAME "Kenyaoutline"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> "no_defs"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> STATUS ON<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> TILEITEM "location"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> STYLE<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> COLOR 0 0 0<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> END # CLASS<u></u><u></u></p>
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Mwaura Daniel<u></u><u></u></p>
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