[OpenLayers-Users] Clip WMS layers

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 03:18:33PM +0100, Polet Guillaume wrote:
> Hi Christopher,
> 
> Thanks for your quick response. I have not put my code because it is a
> GWT code (combined with GWT-openlayers library), however it is pretty
> straightforward to go from to another. The only problem is that it
> requires a much heavier environment to make it run.
> Anyway, here is a snippet of what I did, maybe somebody can immediately
> spot my error. If not, I will try to set up a complete example.

maxExtent is an *option*, not a parameter.

-- Chris

> 		// This is the base layers that shows a basic world map
> (it goes on a simple MapServer hosted locally)
> 		WMSParams params = new WMSParams();
> 		params.setMaxExtent(new Bounds(-180, -90, 180, 90));
> 		params.setFormat("image/png");
> 		params.setLayers("world");
> 		WMS layer = new WMS("Basic",
> 	
> "http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/ms4w/apps/tutorial/mapfiles/W
> orldMap.map",
> 				params);
> 
> 		// This is the second layer I would like to clip to the
> extent of Africa
> 		WMSParams p2 = new WMSParams();
> 		Bounds extent = new Bounds(-25, -38, 52, 35);
> 		p2.setMaxExtent(extent);
> 		p2.setFormat("image/png");
> 		p2.setLayers("Bathymetry,Topography,Hillshading,Builtup
> areas,Cities,Borders,Coastlines");
> 		WMS resLayer = new WMS("Result",
> 	
> "http://www2.demis.nl/wms/wms.asp?wms=WorldMap",
> 				p2);
> 		resLayer.setIsBaseLayer(false);
> 		resLayer.setIsVisible(true); 
> 		getMap().addLayers(new Layer[]{layer, resLayer});
> 		getMap().addControl(new LayerSwitcher());
> 		getMap().addControl(new PanZoomBar());
> 		getMap().addControl(new Navigation());
> 		getMap().setCenter(new LonLat(0, 0),1);
> 
> With that code, the second layer takes the whole extent and therefore
> hides the rest of the map.
> 
> 
> Guillaume Polet
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Schmidt [mailto:crschmidt at metacarta.com] 
> Sent: 12 February 2010 14:58
> To: Polet Guillaume
> Cc: users at openlayers.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Clip WMS layers
> 
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:03:47AM +0100, Polet Guillaume wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  
> > I wondered if it was possible to have a Basic WMS layer (displaying
> for
> > example the whole world) and on top of that have a non-basic layer
> > clipped to a specific extent. The purpose of this is to display the
> > results of a catalogue of images clipped to the selected area of
> > interest selected by a user.
> 
> I believe this is possible, so long as the overlaid datasource
> is not a tiled datasource with extents that are different than the
> data extent.
> 
> > I tried to use two WMS layers with different extents but this does not
> > work (but maybe I have miscoded something).
> 
> If you tried something and it didn't work, providing that code will
> always
> help actually understand the problem.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Christopher Schmidt
> MetaCarta
>  

-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta