[mapserver-users] WMS raster display, getfeatureinfo from vectorlayer

Bruce Cheney BLC at JUB.com
Fri Jul 11 11:34:07 EDT 2008


Just a couple of thoughts - shouldn't your type be Polygon if you are
referring to your polygon shapefile? Then make the symbology for this
layer nonintrusive (so the users don't see it).  I believe your query
will reference the NAME item to obtain specific feature information.

LAYER
  	NAME QUERYLAYER
	DATA yourshapefilename
	TYPE POLYGON
	STATUS ON

	CLASS
  		Define symbology - one symbol for entire layer
	END

	TEMPLATE "x"
END


Bruce Cheney

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of percy
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 5:43 PM
To: Steve Lime
Cc: mapserver
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] WMS raster display,getfeatureinfo from
vectorlayer

thanks, nice idea. I tried it, and that did not work...

relevant mapfile section:

LAYER
	NAME "Geologic_Map_Of_North_America"
	TYPE RASTER
	STATUS ON
	data "/vol/www/ngmdb/htdocs/GMNA_INDEX_tiled.tif"
	maxscale 10000000
	MINSCALE 500000
Metadata
"WMS_TITLE" "Geologic Map Of North America"
"WMS_SRS" "epsg:4326"
END # metadata
END #layer
LAYER
	NAME "Geologic_Map_Of_North_America"
	TYPE query
	STATUS On
	data GMNA_S_OneGeo
	TOLERANCE 0
	TOLERANCEUNITS pixels
	TRANSFORM TRUE
	DUMP TRUE
	HEADER "templates/GMNA_query_header.html"
	TEMPLATE "templates/GMNA_query_body.html"
	FOOTER "templates/GMNA_query_footer.html"
Metadata
"WMS_TITLE" "Geologic Map Of North America"
"WMS_SRS" "epsg:4326"
GML_INCLUDE_ITEMS
"DisplayNam,OneGeology,Lithologic,GeologicAg,AgeMin,AgeMax,AgeMetadat"
WMS_INCLUDE_ITEMS
"DisplayNam,OneGeology,Lithologic,GeologicAg,AgeMin,AgeMax,AgeMetadat"
END # metadata
END #layer


Steve Lime wrote:
> What about using GROUPs or layers with the same name where the second 
> layer is TYPE QUERY?
> 
> Steve
> 
>>>> On 7/10/2008 at 2:14 PM, in message <48765F96.20209 at pdx.edu>, percy
> <percyd at pdx.edu> wrote:
>> I discussed this issue with Tom K. on the IRC yesterday, and he 
>> thought it was of general interest and should be posted and 
>> potentially requested as a feature.
>>
>> Scenario: we have a Geologic map that has super complex cartography 
>> that we don't want to reproduce in the mapfile (600+ classes, tons of

>> patterns, etc). So we dumped out a raster of it to serve as WMS.
>>
>> However, when the user does a GetFeatureInfo on this WMS, we want to 
>> return attribute data from the original shapefile.
>>
>> I can envision this being taken care of at the layer level as a 
>> metadata tag like "WMS_query_redirect".
>>
>> In the short term we're working on a little apache mod_rewrite magic 
>> to take care of it :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Percy
> 
> 

--
David Percy
Geospatial Data Manager
Geology Department
Portland State University
http://gisgeek.pdx.edu
503-725-3373
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