[mapserver-users] WMS and transparent

[bartvde at osgis.nl]

Yeah maybe OFFSITE can do this for you, give it a try, it works for normal
rasters so why not for a WMS client layer (haven't tried though).

Best regards,
Bart

> Thanks for the reply.  I was hoping maybe MapServer could consume that
> jpeg and set the white color to transparent, then mapserver would output
> a PNG that has transparency to the web client.  Does the offsite
> parameter do this by chance or is there another trick that could be
> used?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bartvde at osgis.nl [mailto:bartvde at osgis.nl]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 9:47 AM
> To: Fischer, Brian
> Cc: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] WMS and transparent
>
> Hi,
>
> jpegs can not be transparent. Only if you switch to another image format
> like image/png.
>
> Best regards,
> Bart
>
>>
>>
>> I am trying to consume this  WMS service with MapServer 5.0.2 as a
>> client and would like to make the background transparent instead of
>> white.  Is this possible mapserver?  I tried the  "wms_transparent"
>> "true", but that didn't seem to work.  Thanks for any suggestions.
>>
>>
>>
>>   NAME '2003orthos'
>>
>>   STATUS ON
>>
>>   EXTENT 366751.468 5034450.028 882880.091 5434570.553
>>
>>   UNITS Meters
>>
>>    SIZE  600 400
>>
>>    FONTSET '../fonts/fontset.list'
>>
>>    SYMBOLSET '../symbols/symbol.sym'
>>
>>   IMAGETYPE PNG24
>>
>>   TRANSPARENT TRUE
>>
>>
>>
>>                 WEB
>>
>>                                 IMAGEURL "E:\ms4w\tmp\ms_tmp"
>>
>>                                 IMAGEPATH "E:\ms4w\tmp\ms_tmp"
>>
>>                 END
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   LAYER
>>
>>     NAME         ND03
>>
>>     TYPE         RASTER
>>
>>     OFFSITE      0 0 0
>>
>>     STATUS       DEFAULT
>>
>>     CONNECTIONTYPE WMS
>>
>>     CONNECTION
>>
> "http://web.apps.state.nd.us/wmsconnector/com.esri.wms.Esrimap/NDWMS_aer
>> ialimages?"
>>
>>
>>
>>     #MINSCALE      1000 # only display down to this scale
>>
>>     #MAXSCALE     24000
>>
>>
>>
>>     METADATA
>>
>>       "wms_srs" "EPSG:26914"
>>
>>       "wms_name" "ND03"
>>
>>       "wms_server_version" "1.1.1"
>>
>>       "wms_format" "image/jpeg"
>>
>>       "wms_styles" ""
>>
>>       "wms_exceptions" "application/vnd.ogc.se_inimage"
>>
>>     END
>>
>>
>>
>>   END
>>
>> END
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> End #Map
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Brian
>>
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