[Mapserver-users] time support

[Dean Gadoury]

Here's a quick response, and others can fill in details that I miss.

MapServer does not currently support the time parameter in its WMS 
interface, but it is in the plans for a future release. Someone else can 
give more detail on that.

We have come up with a work around for a project we are currently 
working on though. We use the variable substitution function in 
MapServer 4.0. We add 'time=value' to the URL of our WMS request, and in 
the mapfile on the server side we use the variable %time% in a layer's 
FILTER object. This method does not allow us to select a range of times, 
but perhaps you can do the same thing with two variables like 
'starttime' and 'endtime' or something similar.

Dean


Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:

>Hi,
>
>We have an activity which requires interfacing with a WMS supporting the
>TIME construct, as per ISO8601, for OGC:WMS communication with point-based
>temporal observation data.
>
>Does MapServer support this in its WMS face?  If no, are there any plans to
>do so, and ETA?  Are there any workaround / interim solutions to do this?
>
>Basically looking for a state of affairs w.r.t. this issue.
>
>Thanks
>
>..Tom
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>Tom Kralidis
>Systems Scientist
>Environment Canada
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>http://www.ec.gc.ca/cise/
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