[mapserver-users] Different data in the same layer

[René F. Viancos S.]

Hi, Check the GROUP parameter in the MapFile Documentation. With this you
can merge many layers in one grouped Layer.

Regards

René Viancos

2008/3/25, Paul Austin <mail-lists at revolsys.com>:
>
> What I would like to achieve is a WMS server where when the user selects
> a layer (e.g. Water) that they see Line and Polygon water features
> rendered where the lines are in the database table water_lines and the
> polygons are in the table water_polys. All the line features are
> rendered first with the polygon features rendered on top of those.
>
> Is it possible with mapserver to define a layer which gets data from
> multiple sources? Sort of like nested layers but where the user doesn't
> see the nested layers.
>
> An extension of this would to be also have different tables with data at
> different scales so the 1:20k data would be in water_20k_lines and the
> 1:250k would be in water_250k_lines.
>
> Throughout all of this the user just sees the Water layer.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
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René Felipe Viancos.
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