[mapserver-users] Anaimated images as map sources

Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) bob.basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us
Tue Jun 12 16:04:14 PDT 2012


Steve,

I can get the individual images online, I can run them together with PERL too, was just wondering where support was at in MapServer.

I'll hit it tomorrow with some hacking

bobb



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From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Stephen Woodbridge [woodbri at swoodbridge.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 5:48 PM
To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Anaimated images as map sources

Bob,

You might look at doing something like using mapcache to generate the
images needed for the animation as multiple separate layers. Then look
at using imagemagic in a perl script to combine the layers into a single
animated gif image and putting the combined image into another layer in
the cache. If you configure the new animated layer in mapcache and don't
ask mapcache to modify the image it will just serve the animated gifs, I
would think. If it doesn't a little bit of apache mod-perl can be done
to efficiently serve them. What other formats support animation? gif,
flash, others?

Anyway, my guess  is that you will need to do some custom work to get it
going.

-Steve W

On 6/12/2012 5:24 PM, Lime, Steve D (DNR) wrote:
> I’m not an AGG expert but that’s probably not the component in play here
> anyway. Presumably whatever the source imagery it would/should be
> considered a raster dataset. I guess I’d look into how GDAL deals with
> animated input and then figure out if that can be configured through
> MapServer. I guess it wouldn’t surprise me if GDAL considered individual
> frames as bands. Maybe that’s the way to think about.
>
> Steve
>
> *From:*Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 12, 2012 4:18 PM
> *To:* Lime, Steve D (DNR)
> *Subject:* RE: Anaimated images as map sources
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> So,
>
> What AGG functions are used in MapServer? I just went looking for what
> AGG stood for. Found some animation examples, but they were final
> constructs, not specifically clipping an existing animated image.
>
> What I was going to attempt, was to to try and set up a animated image
> from NOAA as a data source for Mapserver. They have the separate images
> available as well, which I would need to assemble after clipping into a
> image, Hmmm, maybe a layer per time index, ten hit that from the CGI
> through MapServer, then into a animated image for use in the map. Still
> sounds clunky though.
>
> bobb
>
>
> *From:*Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 12, 2012 4:05 PM
> *To:* Lime, Steve D (DNR)
> *Subject:* RE: Anaimated images as map sources
>
>
>
> bobb
>
> *From:*Lime, Steve D (DNR)
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 12, 2012 4:03 PM
> *To:* Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul); mapserver-users at osgeo.org
> <mailto:mapserver-users at osgeo.org>
> *Subject:* RE: Anaimated images as map sources
>
> Not that I’m aware of.
>
> *From:*mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> <mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>
> [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Basques,
> Bob (CI-StPaul)
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 12, 2012 4:02 PM
> *To:* mapserver-users at osgeo.org <mailto:mapserver-users at osgeo.org>
> *Subject:* [mapserver-users] Anaimated images as map sources
>
> All,
>
> Can Mapserver slice and dice an Animated (GIF or PN or ??) map source
> image and return a resulting animated image?
>
> I found a refernce to it NOT owrking for a WMS to WMS call where the
> upstream WMS service would produce a Animated GIF, but the downstream
> Mapserver WMS client would only see (present) the first frame of the
> animation.
>
> Thanks
>
> bobb
>
>
>
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