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

[Alexander Petkov]

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 6:27 AM, rai 8 <max1000 at gmail.com> 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?
>
>
> thanks

The time-related metadata items:

"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


need to be in the METADATA section of the "sat_w" layer.

Alex