[mapserver-users] WMS title tags
Daniel Morissette
dmorissette at mapgears.com
Fri Nov 27 13:48:30 PST 2009
karsten vennemann wrote:
>
> So "Rivers" I can use to get the layer in a getmap request but not
> "the_rivers". So is there any use for "wms_group_title" and "wms_title" ?
> How is this handled by other map rendering engines (Geoserver, Mapnik ,
> Degree?)
>
The wms_title metadata is used to produce the <Title> element for the
layer in the WMS GetCapabilitites. The Title is usually displayed by WMS
clients as the human-readable caption of the layer, in selection lists
for instance.
OTOH, the LAYER NAME is mapped to the <Name> element in the WMS
GetCapabilities which is the unique name/id of the layer, this the
identifier by which client and server software refer to this layer in
GetMap and other requests.
HTH
Daniel
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