GetFeatureInfo on ESRI binary grid

[Frans Knibbe]

Thank you for explaining. I thought 'post 4.2.' meant 'after 4.2.0'...
I will patiently wait for 4.3, then.

Greetings,

Frans

Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Frans Knibbe wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I had not read the document Jim mentioned, but it nicely explains why,
>> for an ArcINFO grid, setting a path to a grid directory yields the same
>> results as setting a path to a file within that directory.
>>
>> I had read this document:
>> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RasterQuery
>> It explains that after MapServer 4.2 you should be able to perform
>> queries on rasters.
>
>
> Frans,
>
> Note that it means that raster query is not available in any of the 4.2.x
> releases.  Only in 4.3 (aka CVS dev tree).
>
>> And a thread in this list about the subject:
>> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/data2/wilma/mapserver-users/0406/msg00600.html
>>
>> ,
>> where the question is asked whether the getFeatureInfo request will work
>> on raster layers.
>>
>> I am wondering now if getFeatureInfo does not work on raster layers, or
>> if I have made a mistake in the map configuration. If anyone has
>> succeeded in querying a raster layer using getFeatureInfo,  it would be
>> nice to see the layer definition in the map file.
>
>
> The answer would appear to be the same as then.  The code looks a bit
> like
> it might work, but as far as I know no one has properly tested it.  If it
> isn't working there might be quite a few possible reasons.
>
> Best regards,