[mapserver-users] Define an End-Time attribute in WMS Time

[Emanuele Di Giacomo]

Hi Andrea,
if you need two datetime attributes for each feature (in your example,
for each county), you can use custom dimensions
http://mapserver.org/ogc/wms_dimension.html.

Emanuele


On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 6:32 PM, Andrea Peri <aperi2007 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jeff.
>
> I was understanding the wms_timeextend as defined in the annex C3 of OGC.
> AFAIK it is the domains of availability for the values in the
> time-field in all the dataset
>
> But is always one only attribute. This is ok for spot events. Instead
> when there is a dataset where every feature is a start-date and an
> end-date  of validity for every single feature of dataset.
>
> As example:
> the dataset of county boundaries. Sometime the county bounaries could
> change so they have a startdate and an enddate.
> So is need to define both: the end-date and the start-date using two
> attribute fields.
>
> I wrong to understand the wms_timeextend ?
>
> Thx,
> A.
>
>
> 2017-02-26 17:29 GMT+01:00 Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>:
>> Hi Andrea,
>>
>> The possible WMS Time parameters for MapServer are documented at:
>> http://mapserver.org/ogc/wms_time.html  There is a "wms_timeextent"
>> parameter that sets the possible start/end time range, but I am not sure if
>> I am understanding your question fully.
>>
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jeff McKenna
>> MapServer Consulting and Training Services
>> http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2017-02-26 11:58 AM, Andrea Peri wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I need to define a WMS Time for using on an our dataset.
>>> But I need colud define also a End-Time attribute. Because a single
>>> feature has a
>>> start-time validity and an end-time validity.
>>>
>>> Searching for some workaround on internet, I see that this option
>>> (start-time and end-time of validity for a feature) is allowed in
>>> geoserver.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/data/webadmin/layers.html#data-webadmin-layers-edit-dimensions
>>>
>>> So I hope it could be done also possible in mapserver.
>>>
>>> Thx.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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