Are QUERYMAPs Supposed to Work With TileMaps?

Bob Bruce covariance at SHAW.CA
Sat Nov 13 00:26:39 EST 2004


Yes, sorry about that, here's what I get:

C:\Apache\htdocs\cgi-bin>mapserv.exe -v
MapServer version 4.2.3 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP
OUTPUT=PDF OUTPUT=SWF SUPPORTS
=PROJ SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT
SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_CLI
ENT INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE

Bob Bruce

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 00:10:46 -0500, Stephen Woodbridge
<woodbri at SWOODBRIDGE.COM> wrote:

>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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