Are QUERYMAPs Supposed to Work With TileMaps?

Stephen Woodbridge woodbri at SWOODBRIDGE.COM
Sat Nov 13 00:10:46 EST 2004


Bob,

You might want to mention what version of mapserver you are running.

-Steve W.

Bob Bruce wrote:

> When I was working through a test map that I set up with some Manitoba data
> I encountered a problem trying to get queries displaying a map with a
> selected property parcel highlighted. I was able to get the property parcel
> attributes displayed nicely but the map image would not work properly (all I
> got was a little section of the overall map centered on the last area
> without the selected land parcel shown or highlighted)
>
> I racked my brain, triple-checked my map and template files comparing them
> with the Itasca demo (which I got working fine) trying to find out what was
> the difference between them. Finally I realized that the Itasca demo was
> using single data files for the layers while my test map was using tilemaps
> for each of the layers.
>
> I then tried changing one of the layers to a single data file and querying
> that layer and PRESTO the correct querymap appeared with my selected land
> parcel highlighted.
>
> Has anyone ever got querymaps working with tilemaps and are they supposed to
> work with them?
>
> thanks in advance for your help.
>
>     Bob Bruce
>     Winnipeg, Manitoba
>



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