Excluding certain layer types from WMS...

Steve Lime Steve.Lime at DNR.STATE.MN.US
Mon Jan 14 15:23:57 EST 2008


That's the beauty of having the source! This must have been talked about previously. I thought
there were some discussions relative to the use of the DUMP keyword. Will have to search the 
archives and address for 5.2.

Steve

>>> On 1/14/2008 at 2:16 PM, in message <478BC338.4010205 at dmsolutions.ca>, Jeff
McKenna <jmckenna at DMSOLUTIONS.CA> wrote:
> I'd agree with you on this one Steve.  For many clients who have an 
> application mapfile AND a serve-through-wms requirement for their data I 
> have to make a copy of the mapfile and remove certain layers that 
> shouldn't be served through WMS...I wish there was a magical 
> "wms_exclude_layers" metadata item that we could set.
> 
> -jeff
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Steve Lime wrote:
>> Hi all: Currently it looks like layers with TYPE QUERY and TILEINDEX are 
> output as regular WMS layers. Is that something we want? Kind of a pain since 
> there's no way to explicitly exclude layers from WMS output (although perhaps 
> I'm missing something).
>> 
>> Steve
>> 



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