[mapserver-users] Different image for each point

[thomas bonfort]

I was just replying along the same lines... :)

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Stephen Woodbridge
<woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:
> On 8/23/2012 1:31 PM, Ian Walberg wrote:
>>
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> We need to be able to display a different small image from each point in
>> a data set, say along the lines of a thumbnail.
>>
>>  From what I can see this could be done my defining each image as a
>> symbol and then referencing that.
>>
>> However what we would like to be able to do is get the image file name
>> as part of the query and display the image based on that.
>>
>> Is this possible?
>
>
> I have done this by creating a column with the filename in it. You can then
> use the column as a symbol name or symbol path or as attribute column in wfs
> to OpenLayers that can then be used to point to a thumbnail directory of
> fullsize directory of images.
>
> LAYER
>   NAME "images"
>   TYPE POINT
>   DATA "myImagePoints"
>   CLASS
>     STYLE
>       SYMBOL ("/path/to/thumbs/"+'[FILENAME]')
>     END
>   END
> END
>
> Where column FILENAME has something like 'myimage.png' and to do this you
> are probably limited to gif, jpg, and png images only. svg will NOT work.

gif and png are the only options. jpeg is not.

--
thomas

>
> -Steve W
>
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