Google Earth transparency

[Brian Timoney]

There's some good content on this subject on the
Google Maps API discussion list.  Also, you may get
ideas from these posts--

http://johndeck.blogspot.com/


Good luck.

BT


--- Brent Fraser <bfraser at GEOANALYTIC.COM> wrote:

> Jørn,
> 
>   I haven't tried it myself, but try using PNG (or
> GIF if you can tolerate
> 8-bit images) as the output format since these
> formats support a transparent
> value (as far a I know Tiff and jpeg don't).  I'm
> not sure if Mapserver
> passes the OFFSITE value to GDAL for setting of the
> transparent color of the
> output image(likely?).
> 
>   Let me know if it works out.  It's something I've
> meaning to try...
> 
> Brent Fraser
> GeoAnalytic Inc.
> Calgary, Alberta
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jørn Vegard Røsnes" <jorn at SPACETEC.NO>
> To: <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 3:43 AM
> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Google Earth
> transparency
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > has anyone managed  to get Google Earth to display
> Mapserver WMS images
> > without white background?
> > My WMS request includes TRANSPARENT=true.
> >
> > cheers
> > Joern
> 


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