Handling multiple maps hierarchically

[Steven Monai]

Tamas:

MapServer has both WMS server and client capabilities. Therefore, if you
configure your maps as WMS services, you can create an "overview" map that
composes those services as raster layers, much as you suggest. The idea of
having a tileindex of maps won't work though, since tileindexes only work
for local rasters or shapefiles (AFAIK).

Hope this helps,
-SM
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On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:36:24 -0500, Tamas Szekeres
<szekeres.tamas at FREEMAIL.HU> wrote:

>Is there any way to join multiple maps in one map.
>In my case I have a map of the country and a large number of maps (~400)
>of the cities and villages. It would be desirable if the proper map could
>be drawn over the map of the country if the map is zoomed to the location
>of the city or village. This should be extended to more levels in
>hierarchy, eg. using a map for the whole continent and ensuring to draw
>the map of the country over the map of the continent after zooming to the
>appropriate area.
>
>I think it would give a solution if a map could be drawn as a raster layer
>in other map, and a tileindex file could contain the .map files for the
>given locations.
>
>Any suggestions would be appreciated,
>
>
>Tamas Szekeres