[mapserver-dev] Support for the MapInfo style zoom layering option.

Tamas Szekeres szekerest at gmail.com
Wed Jun 25 18:08:56 EDT 2008


2008/6/25 Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com>:
> I'm not sure that I like moving minscaledenom and mascaledenom into a
> REQUIRES expression... the current approach with explicit keywords is simple
> and intuitive to use and understand for new users... embedding that into the
> REQUIRES expression will make a simple system more powerful, but also more
> complicated. I think in this specific case I'd be more in favor of new
> keywords to specify minmapwidth/maxmapwidth in parallel with
> minscaledemom/maxscaledenom and let the users pick the one they like.
>

Daniel,

Did you mean by adding 3 extra members to the layerObj or you are
thinking about adding these new keywords only to the parser and the
specified MINWIDTH/MAXWIDTH values would eventually be stored in the
current minscaledemom/maxscaledenom members?

Tamas


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