[Mapserver-users] masking

[Aaron D. Hunt]

I think a masking function would be a nice item to add to mapserver. Maybe a
class item MASK where 1 is mask everything outside the area.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Morissette" <morissette at dmsolutions.ca>
To: "Aaron D. Hunt" <hunt at zedxinc.com>
Cc: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] masking


> > "Aaron D. Hunt" wrote:
> >
> > Is there anyway to make a mask in mapserver? I need to block out
> > anything outside of a polygon.
> >
>
> Masks are not directly supported, but this can be achieved using the
> pasteImage() method in PHP MapScript.  Search the archives for "mask"
> and for "pasteImage" and you should find a few posts with examples.
>
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