[Mapserver-users] time support

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Gadoury [mailto:gadoury at dmsolutions.ca] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 1:22 PM
> To: Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]
> Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] time support
> 
> 
> 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.
>

This would be appreciated, as this is a valued feature. 

> 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.
>

Do you have an exmaple snippet of how this works?  Basically, time values
would be in an attribute field in our data.  Also, how should time values be
formatted?

..Tom


> 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
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> >Environment Canada
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