[MapProxy] Merging two transparent layers

[Oliver Tonnhofer]

On 09.03.2013, at 16:32, Tobias Lohner wrote:
> i'm trying to merge two transparent layers with MapProxy into one (/service?layers=layer1,layer2&transparent=true), but somehow the lower of the two layers get's very transparent.


PIL doesn't support alpha compositing. See this thread http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapproxy/2012-January/000938.html

There is a fix[1] in Pillow (the soon-to-be replacement of PIL) and a fix for MapProxy to use alpha compositing when available[2].

[1] https://github.com/python-imaging/Pillow/pull/23
[2] https://github.com/mapproxy/mapproxy/pull/47

Regards,
Oliver

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