style level transparency

[Sean Gillies]

Feature-level transparency makes it easier to show where features 
overlap. Addition of semi-opaque patches is a nice effect, and 
MapServer's cartography can't get to the next level without it.

Cheers,
Sean

Daniel Morissette wrote:
> I don't remember what the use case was for that, or if one was ever 
> made, so I don't know whether this is important or not.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> Yewondwossen Assefa wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>  One of the target feature for the 5.0 release was the support of style 
>> or class level transparency (at least for GD based formats).
>>  I had a brief discussion with Steve and after some tests that Steve 
>> did, my understanding is that this feature can only be supported when 
>> the output is a 24bit image and we wont be able to support it with the 
>> current approach for 8 bit images.
>> Do people feel that this feature is worth for consideration even with 
>> this limitation ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>