[Mapserver-users] time support

[Daniel Morissette]

Steve Lime wrote:
> 
> 2) As part of WCS support I'm adding the notion of a temporal index to
> MapServer. The idea being that you would use a tabular index (an xbase
> file) to organize data within a single layer temporally and then would
> specify which slice to use using some sort of a temporal id. That way
> you could serve 100's of images for a common geographic area using a
> single layer definition. There may well be benefits for vector data as
> well.
> 

Steve,

How about allowing FILTER/FILTERITEM to be applied to data fields in the 
TILEINDEX? You would end up combining the spatial and temporal index 
into a single file. That would do the trick without any significant 
change in MapServer.

Daniel
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