[Mapserver-dev] Scale-Dependent Renderers

[Daniel Morissette]

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> 
> We recently received a large ArcIMS AXL file, to do a test conversion to 
> Mapserver, and one of the things the struck was that AXL has support for 
> scale dependent renderers.
> I was struck again by the utility of the concept today, as I wrote four 
> scale dependent layers to represent the same data table at four 
> different resolutions.  Often, we want to render the same things 
> differently at different scales, and forcing the choice at the layer 
> level gets very verbose, very fast.
> 

You can use MINSCALE/MAXSCALE at the class level to handle that.  We 
thought about it before them.  ;)

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  Daniel Morissette               dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca
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