enhancing Legend

[Milo van der Linden]

Hello list,

First of all Jacolin, thanks for the response.

I managed to "fake" a legend title by adding an empty class item as the 
topmost class for the layer I create the thematic legend for. This class 
item has no properties other then a name containing the text: "-- This 
is my legend --"

Works good enough for me!

Jacolin Yves schreef:
> Le Tuesday 06 November 2007 13:28:55 Milo van der Linden, vous avez écrit :
>   
>> Hello list!
>>
>> I am currently using a GetLegendGraphic request to mapserver to return a
>> legend that is presented in Google Earth in combination with a WMS
>> layer, all to great satisfaction of the customer, what a power this WMS
>> server capability has!
>>
>> The legend only contains the thematic symbols for my layer, but I would
>> like to add a header to differentiate it in my Google Earth window. Is
>> it possible to add static text and maybe draw a line in a legend? Does
>> anyone has some sample mapfile snippet showing how to do this?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Milo van der Linden
>>     
>
> Hi Milo,
>
> I don't think it is possible to add an header to the GetLegendGraphic request. 
> You can watch the documentation for the LEGEND object mapfile but I don't 
> think that the header will run for the WMS service.
>
> Note that I had the same problem about using this for my application. I 
> choosed to use mapserv in CGI mode to get my legend, but this is not OGC 
> compliant ;) The other way is to use a GetSTyles request, but you have to 
> build the legend icon by yourself, not so difficult for plain polygon icone, 
> more difficult if you use hached icons. But by this way you could manage the 
> layout exactly as you want :)
>
> If you develop something to create icon from an SLD XML data, I will be really 
> interesting for :)
>
> Anyway, if some developpers implyed in OGC standards could give their opinion 
> about this "issue" :) My opinion is that all pictures have to be processed in 
> the server side and the client side will just create the layout. That's imply 
> that GetLegendGraphic "is not good" because it creates layout in the server 
> side and GetStyles "is not good" because the icons have to be create on the 
> client side.
>
> However, I develop my application using OGC standard and Mapserver and I am 
> really happy of this two technologies.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Y.
>   


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