time series representations in Mapserver

[Kevin Grootendorst]

So in order to view time series data (as an animation) within a mapserver
application, I need to define the layer as a WMS layer?  Why can't I set up
a non-WMS layer with Time support? (I guess because MS doesn't support that
yet?)
Does anyone have a valid/working .map file with time series support?

Kevin


On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:21:43 -0500, David Bitner <osgis.lists at GMAIL.COM>
wrote:

>Gerry,
>
>Did you ever get anything figured out for this?  I just came upon this
>thread again.  if you take Uli's reccomendation and go with the WMS
>Time approach, you can build upon whats been done by the mapbuilder
>folks (http://mapbuilder.sourceforge.net/). Otherwise if you look on
>pure javascript resources for information on preloading images (just
>manipulate the time string that you send to the map requests) and
>animating them using javascripts setTimeout function.  Most of the
>resources for this are for creating rotating banners on web pages, but
>the idea holds perfectly well for creating animated maps.  I know a
>couple NWS sites use this approach for radar.  I used this on the NWS
>Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov) site to
>animate snow pack (not a mapserver backend, but same idea).
>
>David
>> >
>> > OK... that's a start.  However, I'm looking at weather observations,
>> > usually they're from fixed sites (well, excluding the storm chasers:-).
>> >   I'm wondering if anything's been done for animation-ish stuff, so I
>> > could display the temperature contours, or, for instance, a changing
>> > landscape of wind barbs...
>> >
>> > Thanks, Gerry
>> >
>> > David Bitner wrote:
>> >
>> >>If all you need is to show all of something that fit within a window
>> >>of time on a single image (ie not an animation) you can either use sql
>> >>statements with GDAL (I've not done this myself) or if you have your
>> >>data in PostGIS all you need to do is add substitution variables into
>> >>your SQL statement.
>> >>
>> >>For example, I display flight tracks at an airport using mapserver and
>> >>I include a startdate and enddate as cgi variables sent to mapserver
>> >>then in my mapfile use percent notation in my mapfile:
>> >>DATA "targets from (select * from flighttrack where stime <= '%eDate%'
>> >>and etime >='%sDate%')as tracks USING UNIQUE opnum USING SRID=-1"
>> >>
>> >>On 6/3/05, Gerry Creager N5JXS <gerry.creager at tamu.edu> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>We're looking at several applications where we need some time-
selection
>> >>>capabilities.  Has anyone done this successfully with Mapserver, and
if
>> >>>so, might you share some tips?
>> >>>
>> >>>TIA,gerry
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>> >>
>> >>
>> >
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