[mapserver-users] TIme support on mapserver 5.6.3, it's working?

[daryl herzmann]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, rai 8 wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've been working with mapserver to get a map with time support, time 
> parameter, I followed the tutorial in documetation 
> http://mapserver.org/ogc/wms_time.html and this post 
> http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Accessing-images-using-time-dimension-td1991324.html#a1991324 
> and I can't run the mapserver to change the image with a time parameter.
>
> I test several configurations but any works, the last is the same like 
> the post in the maillist, this is what i've done:
>
> in a postgis database
>
> create table satellite (image_path text, image_time timestamp);
> select AddGeometryColumn('satellite', 'the_geom', 4326, 'POLYGON', 2);
>
> insert into satellite (image_path, image_time, the_geom)
> values ('/home/vbox/Downloads/animacio/sat1.tif', '2007-05-11 10:00Z', GeomFromText('POLYGON((-31.82 75.55, -31.82 26.5, 51.31 26.5,51.31 75.55, -31.82 75.55))', 4326));
>
> insert into satellite (image_path, image_time, the_geom)
> values ('/home/vbox/Downloads/animacio/sat2.tif', '2007-05-11 11:00Z', GeomFromText('POLYGON((-31.82 75.55, -31.82 26.5, 51.31 26.5,51.31 75.55, -31.82 75.55))', 4326));
>
>
> and the map file:
>
> LAYER
>    NAME    "time_w"
>    TYPE    POLYGON
>    STATUS    ON
>    CONNECTIONTYPE  POSTGIS
>    CONNECTION    "dbname=tile_index host=127.0.0.1 user=postgres password=xxxxxx"
>    DATA    "the_geom from satellite using unique oid using srid = 4326"
>    METADATA
>        "wms_title"    "time_index_w"
>        "wms_srs"    "EPSG:4326"
>        "wms_timeextent"    "2007-01-01/2007-12-31"
>        "wms_timedefault"   "2007-05-11T11:00:00Z"
>        "wms_timeitem"    "image_time" #a column in postgis table of type
>    END
>  END
>
>  LAYER
>    NAME    "sat_w"
>    STATUS  ON
>    TYPE    RASTER
>    METADATA
>        "wms_title"    "Satellite"
>        "wms_timeextent"    "2007-01-01/2007-12-31"
>    END
>    PROJECTION
>      "init=epsg:4326"
>    END
>    TILEINDEX "time_w" # Layer name containing time index
>    TILEITEM  "image_path" # DB column containing path to image
>  END
>
>
> anyone finds some error?

Could you provide an example URL you are using to test out the WMS-T?  I 
am using WMS-T on 5.6.3 without any known issues.  Please note that if 
your time table gets very large, you may hit this quirk:

   http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3038

daryl