[Chameleon] WMS Layer Selector

[Yewondwossen Assefa]

>         On a related note (perhaps this would be more appropriate in the 
> MapServer list), if there are a great deal of layers in the map file, 
> will the implementation of a wms_extent metadata tag keep MapServer from 
> making a request to the WMS server, if the layer is outside of the 
> requested map extent?

  There is actually another metadata called "wms_latlonboundingbox" (or 
("ows_latlonboundingbox") that can be used to define the lat long 
extents of the layer and would prevent mapserver from requesting that 
layer if it is outiside the extents. More info at 
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc44/wms-client-howto.html.

Hope it helps,

Later


> Timothy Pascoe
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