[mapserver-users] Using different datasets at different scales in the same layer

[ready945 at gmail.com]

Hi,

Maybe scale token can help you :
http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-86.html

On 22/10/2015 22:13, Andrea Peri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Often we serve huge datasets in our wms services.
> To have a faster response, we usually done a secondary hidden layer
> with a simplified dataset and
> serve both using a group of two layers with complementary scales.
>
> This allow the serve to use the simplified dataset for lower scale and
> detailed dataset for higher scales.
>
> But this structure is boring and error prone to configure.
>
> I guess more better should be if possible
> have one only layer and declare in it two distinct datasets.
> One for lower scale and the other for higher scale.
>
> Is possible to do something like this in mapserver ?
>
> Thx.
>