[mapserver-users] OGC specs

[Daniel Morissette]

Rob Atkinson wrote:
> 
> Even better, under WMS a layer can be a nested hierarchy, so you could have a series of layers that form a series - at a certain scale turn on "interstates" and at a larger scale turn it off and turn on "goattracks" - and call this a single layer transport
> 
> This would currently require a hand built Capabilities but would be entirely consistent with mapservers current capabilities, the WMS spec and the possible user requirements. 3 out of 3 aint bad - but really the mapserver datamodel being able to group layers by a single logical name would make this much easier to configure.
> 

Just for the record, MapServer does support grouping of layers via the
LAYER's GROUP name in the mapfiles.  However MapServer's WMS support in
version 3.5 does not *yet* take advantage of this, but it will soon...
it's on my TODO list.

I guess that does not completely solve the scale problem but at least
it will be a step in the right direction.

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