[mapserver-users] Different data in the same layer

[Paul Austin]

Wow, that's very subtle easy to miss!

Is there then a way to not have the layers below water show up in the 
capabilities document?

Paul

René F. Viancos S. wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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