[OpenLayers-Dev] MapServer Untiled and singleTile

[Paul Spencer]

Hi Erik,

I filed http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/866 with the patch.

Paul

On 26-Jul-07, at 1:22 PM, Erik Uzureau wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> Great to hear from you. You're right that in theory the Untiled.js
> layers should be on their way out. When I was making the big patch to
> get "singleTile" working, I tried for a little bit to get the
> Mapserver.js file up to speed so that it could have a singleTile, but
> after a bit of pushing and poking, I sort of gave up. I had limited
> time (the patch I was making is actually for an MC project) and just
> couldn't justify fixing the MapServer bits.
>
> If you'd like to take a stab at it, though, we would be *super*
> grateful. I don't know enough about how MapServer works, and you are
> just the guy who does :-)
>
> Let me know if you need help with anything. I'm around.
> Erik
>
> On 7/26/07, Paul Spencer <pspencer at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:
>> Hey devs,
>>
>> I was just looking at MapServer Untiled trying to figure out why it
>> is overriding getFullRequestString - it was because it was adding an
>> srs parameter, which is not supported by MapServer CGI anyway, so
>> this is a bug - and I discovered that Grid has changed to support
>> singleTile so the Untiled layers should be deprecated now.  If this
>> is a correct view of the world, I'll test changes  to
>> MapServer.Untiled in my sandbox and open a ticket for inclusion in
>> 2.5 - yeay, something I can actually help with.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Paul
>>
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