[Qgis-user] Style Layer Descriptor support

[Alex Mandel]

Yes, use png - jpg doesn't support transparency afaik. Not sure about
tiff and gif is pretty much useless.

Thanks,
Alex

On 11/23/2011 12:34 AM, Lars Burman wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> If I remove the scale setting it does not change anything. This is
> something that really makes my brain hurt =).
> 
> I wonder if the WMS-call must include something like &TRANSPARENCY=true? Do
> I have to use a certain image-format?
> 
> All these questions =)
> 
> //Lars
> 
> 2011/11/23 Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>
> 
>> On 11/22/2011 07:13 AM, Lars Burman wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> I have made an WMS-service using ArcGIS-server. It is 4 layers, 3 with
>>> polygons and every layer has a certain color, the 4th layer is labels for
>>> the polygons.
>>>
>>> With the service I made an .SLD file becuase I wanted to pick certain
>>> colors and I wanted transparency for the polygons and I wanted to decided
>>> on what scale to show the labels. I want it to be 1:500 000 and closer.
>>>
>>> Everything works fine, I can consume the service in Qgis 1.7.1, I can see
>>> the layers and labels, and they have the colors I wanted. But two things
>> do
>>> not work, the transparency and the set scale. This however works if I
>>> consume the service in ArcMap.
>>>
>>> *I guess my question is, does QGis support the ArcGIS .SLD?*
>>>
>>> This is my code, under the element <rule> - <PolygonSymbolizer> - <Fill>
>>> <sld:CssParameter name="fill">#D23262</sld:CssParameter>
>>> <sld:CssParameter name="fill-opacity">0.5</sld:CssParameter>
>>>
>>> <MinScaleDenominator>0</MinScaleDenominator>
>>> <MaxScaleDenominator>1000000</MaxScaleDenominator>
>>>
>>> Any idéas?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Regards, Lars
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Good question, I have transparency working fine on my WMS layers but I'm
>> serving them from Geoserver. I wonder what the difference is? Although
>> I'm not doing scale dependent rendering either.
>>
>> What happens if you just apply transparency at all scales? Does that
>> work? Do other examples of scale dependent rendering work for things
>> other than transparency?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex