[mapserver-users] OUTPUTFORMAT svg

Wed Apr 27 01:32:58 EDT 2011

Thanks Nicol, but we already solved it. It was a configuration setting that we have used wrongly:
Commenting out
# "wms_getmap_formatlist"                               "image/svg+xml,image/png"

From the map file did the trick. Not sure why or what is wrong about that line...

Kind regards,
Tim-Hinnerk Heuer

Landcare Research, Palmerston North

-----Original Message-----
From: Nicol Hermann [mailto:mapserver at geoworld.de]
Sent: Wednesday, 27 April 2011 4:01 p.m.
To: Tim Heuer
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] OUTPUTFORMAT svg

Hi Tim,

Is this link of any help?
http://mapserver.org/output/svg.html
I saw that you are using WMS requests.
The document states:
"WMS layers are not yet supported."
Not sure of the documentations is outdated as it is last updated in
December 2008.

Best regards
Nicol

Am Mittwoch, den 27.04.2011, 12:13 +1200 schrieb Tim Heuer:
> Hi List,
>
>
>
> For quite a few days I am now stuck on this problem, and since I
> haven’t found it with searching the web, here a question:
>
>
>
> We have a relatively complex setup here. 2 MapServer versions. One is
> the standard 5.6.6 and the other one, we got a SVN snapshot:
>
>
>
> $ svn info
>
> Path: .
>
> URL: https://svn.osgeo.org/mapserver/trunk/mapserver
>
> Repository Root: https://svn.osgeo.org/mapserver
>
> Repository UUID: 7532c77e-422f-0410-93f4-f0b67bdd69e2
>
> Revision: 10907
>
> Node Kind: directory
>
> Schedule: normal
>
> Last Changed Author: tbonfort
>
> Last Changed Rev: 10907
>
> Last Changed Date: 2011-01-26 06:07:46 +1300 (Wed, 26 Jan 2011)
>
>
>
> We use the “normal” release version for our mapping application in the
> browser and the “SVN” version for printing SVG output. We decided to
> do it this way, because that is how we got the best looking maps with
> help of the MapFish print module.
>
>
>
> We have 2 map files (more but irrelevant for this), one for the base
> map and one for science data. In both we have this:
>
>
>
> IMAGETYPE png
>
> #...
>
> OUTPUTFORMAT
>
>                 NAME "aggpng24"
>
>                 DRIVER AGG/PNG
>
>                 MIMETYPE "image/png"
>
>                 IMAGEMODE RGB
>
>                 EXTENSION "png"
>
>                 FORMATOPTION "INTERLACE=OFF"
>
> END
>
> OUTPUTFORMAT
>
>                 NAME svg
>
>                 MIMETYPE "image/svg+xml"
>
>                 DRIVER CAIRO/SVG
>
>                 #FORMATOPTION  "COMPRESSED_OUTPUT=TRUE"
>
>                 FORMATOPTION  "FULL_RESOLUTION=TRUE"
>
> END
>
> #...
>
> WEB
>
>                 IMAGEPATH "/var/www/tmp/"
>
>                 IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
>
> END
>
> # layer definitions
>
>
>
>
>
> Our requests look like this:
>
> http://ourwmsserver/cgi-bin/mapserv.svn?BBOX=175.90352%2C-38.04814%
> 2C176.34756%
> 2C-37.560966&HEIGHT=1024&WIDTH=933&map_resolution=72&CLASS=1%2C2%2C3%
> 2C4%2C6%2C7%2C8&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&MAP=%2Fopt%2Fmapserver%
> 2Fmapfiles%2Flri.map&TRANSPARENT=true&VERSION=1.1.1&FORMAT=image%2Fsvg
> %2Bxml&format_options=dpi%3A72&LAYERS=luc_main&SRS=EPSG%3A4326
>
> Result: SVG XML
>
>
>
> http://ourwmsserver/cgi-bin/mapserv.svn?BBOX=175.90352%2C-38.04814%
> 2C176.34756%
> 2C-37.560966&HEIGHT=1024&WIDTH=933&TRANSPARENT=true&map_resolution=72&VERSION=1.1.1&FORMAT=image%2Fsvg%2Bxml&SERVICE=WMS&map=%2Fopt%2Fmapserver%2Fmapfiles%2Fscenz_topo_new.map&format_options=dpi%3A72&LAYERS=coastpoly&REQUEST=GetMap&STYLES=&SRS=EPSG%3A4326
>
> Result: PNG image
>
>
>
> We would like to get SVG output in both cases. The funny thing is that
> we’re using the same MapServer instance, there are no errors reported
> and in one case we get SVG output (as desired) and in the other case
> we get a PNG with every request. If we however request a JPG in that
> case, we get an error. I also looked at the GetCapabilities output and
> found image/svg+xml there, but it does not output that for us.
>
> Another thing I’ve tried is to change to
> OUTPUTFORMAT svg
> in which case we always get an SVG, even when requesting a PNG. A
> solution for us could be to define 2 .map files for each layer, but
> that would be a maintenance nightmare with the amount of .map files we
> have already. Also, it seems sensible to me that multiple
> OUTPUTFORMATs are allowed and it should really work.
>
>
>
> I realise, that the “SVN” version we are using might not be totally
> bug free. The problem is though, that our map files do not work with
> the MapServer 6.0 beta 5 version, because there were a lot of changes
> in the way map files are handled in version 6.
>
>
>
> We need to get this working ASAP, so any help or comments are greatly
> appreciated.
>
>
>
> Thank you!
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Tim-Hinnerk Heuer
>
>
>
> Landcare Research, Palmerston North
>
>
>
>
>
>
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