[mapserver-commits] r13130 - trunk/docs/en/cgi
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svn at osgeo.org
Thu Feb 9 04:43:14 EST 2012
Author: havatv
Date: 2012-02-09 01:43:14 -0800 (Thu, 09 Feb 2012)
New Revision: 13130
Modified:
trunk/docs/en/cgi/openlayers.txt
Log:
Did some formatting - lines longer than 80, overfull PDF lines (#3947) and some other minor edits - openlayers.
Modified: trunk/docs/en/cgi/openlayers.txt
===================================================================
--- trunk/docs/en/cgi/openlayers.txt 2012-02-09 01:49:06 UTC (rev 13129)
+++ trunk/docs/en/cgi/openlayers.txt 2012-02-09 09:43:14 UTC (rev 13130)
@@ -7,13 +7,15 @@
MapServer OpenLayers Viewer
*****************************************************************************
-MapServer provides a simple, built-in method for testing a mapfile using OpenLayers.
-This feature is for testing/development purposes only, and not for production or deploying
-full-featured sites. You can preview, test, and navigate a mapfile by accessing a special
-url which will return a built-in OpenLayers template.
+MapServer provides a simple, built-in method for testing a mapfile
+using OpenLayers. This feature is for testing/development purposes
+only, and not for production or deploying full-featured sites. You
+can preview, test, and navigate a mapfile by accessing a special url
+which will return a built-in OpenLayers template.
-.. note: This feature was discussed in `rfc 63 <http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-63.html>`_
- and in this ticket http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3549
+.. note:: This feature was discussed in
+ `rfc 63 <http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-63.html>`_
+ and in the ticket http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3549
Using the OpenLayers viewer
@@ -23,24 +25,26 @@
Opening the OpenLayers viewer in your browser
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Lets assume you are running mapserver on your local machine, and you
-have the Itasca demo setup, a basic url would be::
+Assuming you are running mapserver on your local machine, and you have
+the Itasca demo setup, a basic url would be (split into two lines for
+readability)::
- http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?mode=browse&template=openlayers&layer=lakespy2&layer=dlgstln2&map=/var/www/workshop/itasca.map
+ http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?mode=browse&template=openlayers
+ &layer=lakespy2&layer=dlgstln2&map=/var/www/workshop/itasca.map
Here is a quick breakdown of that url:
* Basic Parameters for activating the OpenLayers browser::
- ?mode=browse
- &template=openlayers
+ template=openlayers
+ mode=browse
* Basic Map / Layer Parameters::
- &map=/var/www/workshop/itasca.map
- &layer=lakespy2
- &layer=dlgstln2
+ map=/var/www/workshop/itasca.map
+ layer=lakespy2
+ layer=dlgstln2
**That's it!**
@@ -54,35 +58,39 @@
Opening the OpenLayers viewer in the form of a WMS request
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-This feature is useful when debugging WMS requests. You can write one of these by hand,
-or copy the URL for a WMS tile. Running the following should give you a simple OpenLayers
-demo around the BBOX::
+This feature is useful when debugging WMS requests. You can write one
+of these by hand, or copy the URL for a WMS tile. Running the
+following should give you a simple OpenLayers demo around the BBOX
+(split into several lines for readability)::
- http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/var/www/workshop/itasca.map&LAYERS=lakespy2&VERSION=1.1.1&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&FORMAT=application/openlayers&BBOX=429956.19803725,5231780.0814818,444078.32296225,5245902.2064068&WIDTH=512&HEIGHT=512&SRS=EPSG:26915
+ http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/var/www/workshop/itasca.map
+ &LAYERS=lakespy2&VERSION=1.1.1&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap
+ &FORMAT=application/openlayers&WIDTH=512&HEIGHT=512&SRS=EPSG:26915
+ &BBOX=429956.19803725,5231780.0814818,444078.32296225,5245902.2064068
Here is a quick breakdown of the interesting parts of that URL:
* Special Parameter for activating the OpenLayers viewer::
- &FORMAT=application/openlayers
+ FORMAT=application/openlayers
* Basic MapServer Parameters::
- ?map=/var/www/workshop/itasca.map
+ map=/var/www/workshop/itasca.map
* Basic WMS parameters::
- #Our Bounding Box, Projection, and Layers
- &BBOX=429956.19803725,5231780.0814818,444078.32296225,5245902.2064068
- &SRS=EPSG:26915
- &LAYERS=lakespy2
+ #Layers, our bounding box and projection
+ LAYERS=lakespy2
+ BBOX=429956.19803725,5231780.0814818,444078.32296225,5245902.2064068
+ SRS=EPSG:26915
#Version and other WMS request params
- &VERSION=1.1.1
- &TRANSPARENT=true
- &SERVICE=WMS
- &REQUEST=GetMap
- &WIDTH=512
- &HEIGHT=512
+ SERVICE=WMS
+ VERSION=1.1.1
+ REQUEST=GetMap
+ WIDTH=512
+ HEIGHT=512
+ TRANSPARENT=true
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