[mapserver-users] mapfile correction

[Daniel Morissette]

Stefan Stern wrote:
> 
> you are right! STATUS DEFAULT is the key.
> 
> But why doesn't "STATUS ON" work as well?????
> 

The exact reasons behind this I'm not exactly sure... perhaps there is
an historical reason?  Having a distinction between DEFAULT, ON and OFF
is definitely useful in MapScript, but the behavior with the mapserv CGI
is a bit different:

STATUS DEFAULT layers are ALWAYS visible

STATUS ON is the same as OFF for the mapserv CGI... the layer is not
displayed unless explicitly requested using the LAYER=<layername> CGI
parameter.

(In MapScript, layers with STATUS ON will show up on the map)

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