[mapserver-users] Passing a mapfile via CGI

[Brent Fraser]

Well, in this application I don't care about a feature's real-world 
attributes (only the  geometry and their feature "class"), so I'm able 
to pack all polygons into one table.  I then join the polygon table to 
the feature class table to get the color, etc.

Are you representing each GPS trail as a separate layer?  So the user 
can turn individual trail on/off in a layer control?

Best Regards,
Brent Fraser


On 4/16/2012 1:07 PM, Bob Basques wrote:
>
> Hmm, interesting apporach, reminds me of my ealier days with Oracle 
> (before Oracle Spatial, where each feature type needed it's own table 
> structure . . .  Have to do some more thinking on this one.
>
>
> I'm trying to render a predefined list of layers (from the user) of a 
> set of GPS trails that are BEGIN  and END indexed.
>
>
> bobb
>
>
>
>
> >>> Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com> wrote:
>
> Bob,
>
>   What kinds of things are you trying to do with layers?  Are the 
> layers vectors?  Maybe there's a different way...
>
> I'm in the midst of an implementation where the vectors are held in 
> PostGIS in three tables (point, line and polygon) and joined to a 
> "feature definition" table (to supply rendering values).  I use one 
> map file with three layers  (point, line, polygon) and pass a FILTER 
> variable to get my different layers which are then rendered.
>
> Here's a snippet from the polygon layer:
>
>         CLASS
>             STYLE # Polygon Fill
>                 SYMBOL       [polyfill_symbol]
>                 COLOR        [polyfill_fillcolor]
>                 ANGLE        [polyfill_angle]
>                 SIZE         [polyfill_hatchgap]  # e.g Hatching gap
>                 WIDTH         1 # [polyfill_hatchthick]  # Hatching 
> line thickness (column binding doesn't seem to work)
> #                OPACITY      50 # [attribute]  # warning: there is no 
> OPACITY for LABEL so don't bother.
>             END
>             STYLE # Polygon Outline
>                 SYMBOL       [geom_symbol]
>                 OUTLINECOLOR [geom_outcolor]
>                 SIZE         [geom_width]    # for "simple" (?) symbols
>                 WIDTH        [geom_width]    # for complex symbols
>             END # Style
>             TEXT             ([gid])
>             LABEL
>                 TYPE         TRUETYPE
>                 FONT         [label_font]
>                 ANTIALIAS    TRUE
>                 COLOR        [label_fillcolor]
>                 OUTLINECOLOR [label_outcolor]
>                 BUFFER       1
>                 POSITION     cc        # [ul|uc|ur|cl|cc|cr|ll|lc|lr|auto]
>                 PARTIALS     TRUE
>                 SIZE         [label_height]
>             END  # LABEL
>
>         END # class
>
> While this method is suitable for rendering, it will be a problem if 
> you want store variables for use in an identify operation (or maybe 
> not; I wonder if a template name can be bound to a database column...)
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
>            
>
> Brent Fraser
>
>
>
> On 4/16/2012 10:22 AM, Bob Basques wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>>
>> Did anything ever develop from this idea?  I need to generate a 
>> variable length list of layers pro grammatically.
>>
>>
>> I'm not finding anything from a quick search of things related to 
>> passing a MAPFILE via the CGI call.  I want to be able to generate a 
>> MAPFILE, or chunks of it, on the fly.  A possible solution (maybe 
>> scary security wise) would be to use a param like 
>> "INCLUDE_<someID>=", to pass in MAP fragments to an existing MAPFILE. 
>>  I need to essentially add layers.
>>
>>
>> Another thought I had (Ok, it's a bit odd, I'll admit . . .) would be 
>> to have MapServer build it's own MAPFILE as a TEMPLATE output, but 
>> I'm not coming up with a way immediately of passing the resulting 
>> MAPFILE to Mapserver in the end.
>>
>>
>> bobb
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