Multiple geometry types in single layer

Judd, Chris Chris.Judd at DEP.STATE.FL.US
Thu Aug 12 15:52:02 EDT 2004


MapServer folks,

We are looking to use MapServer to serve Oracle Spatial data that has
multiple geometry types (points, lines and polygons) in a single layer.

Many databases support multiple geometry types in the same layer.  This is a
quote from the SDE wiki
(http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MapServerSDE) "SDE techically
allows for storage of multiple geometry types in the same layer..."  I
believe PostGIS has also added this feature.

We were able to mine Google and find this post from Paul Ramsey dated 2001,
stating at that time MapServer could only render one geometry type per layer.
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/data2/wilma/mapserver-users/0110/msg00187.html

My questions are:

1) Does the current version of MapServer support the rendering of more than
one geometry type in a single layer?
2) Is there an example of this?  Any example would be helpful.

Thanks for your support.

Chris Judd
Florida DEP



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