[Chameleon] Maptips and PostGIS

[Dirk Jesko]

Paul,

All PostGIS layers are similar to the following.

Dirk

LAYER # Gemeinden (Fläche)
    GROUP        "Grenzen"
    NAME         "Gemeinden"
    CONNECTIONTYPE postgis
    CONNECTION   "user=... password=... dbname=... host=... port=..."
    DATA         "the_geom from sel_admingebiete using SRID=4326"
    FILTER       "feat_type='GEMEINDE' and projektname = 'infogis'"
    STATUS       OFF
    TYPE         POLYGON
    HEADER       "gemeinde_header.html"
    TEMPLATE     "gemeinde_query.html"
    FOOTER       "gemeinde_footer.html"

    METADATA
      "DESCRIPTION" "Gemeinden"
      "GROUP" "Grenzen"
      "LAYER" "Gemeinden"
    END

    PROJECTION
      "init=epsg:4326"
      "towgs84=-598.1,-73.7,-418.2,-0.202,-0.045,2.455,-6.70"
    END

    LABELITEM  "polygon_nm"
    LABELMAXSCALE      75000.0
    LABELMINSCALE      20000.0

    CLASS
      NAME         "Gemeinden"
      STYLE
        COLOR         -1  -1  -1
        OUTLINECOLOR 20 200 140
      END
      LABEL
        ANGLE auto
        ANTIALIAS TRUE
        BUFFER 4
        COLOR 220 220 220
        FONT "arial-bold"
        SHADOWCOLOR 0 0 0
        SHADOWSIZE 1 1
        TYPE TRUETYPE
        SIZE 11
        POSITION CC
        PARTIALS FALSE
        MINDISTANCE 25
      END
    END
  END # Gemeinden (Fläche)


Paul Spencer wrote:

> Dirk,
>
> what is the configuration of your postgis layer in your map file?
>
> Paul
>
> Dirk Jesko wrote:
>
>> Hello again,
>>
>> I have done some more investigations regarding the problem of PostGIS 
>> layers not recognized by the Maptips widget. It works fine with 
>> shapes but not with PostGIS. Until now, I found that the getShape 
>> function:
>>
>>                $oShape = $oLayer->getShape($nTile, 0 );
>>
>> in LayerAttributes.php does not return an object if the layer is a 
>> PostGIS layer. Therefore, the layer does not appear in the selection 
>> dialog.
>>
>> If I use $oLayer->getItems() to retrieve the attributes of the 
>> layers, they at least appear in the "Configure MapTips", but nothing 
>> happens within the map. Might this be specific to the development 
>> version of Mapserver/MapScript (see below for the configuration)?
>>
>> By the way, clicking <OK> in the "Configure MapTips" executes the 
>> currently active navigation function, e.g. ZoomIn or ZoomOut. Is this 
>> a misconfiguration or a bug?
>>
>> Finally, my configuration:
>>
>> Windows XP Pro
>> Postgres 8 nativ Windows
>> PostGIS 1.0
>> Apache 2.0.53
>> PHP 5.0.3 (modul)
>> Mapserver and Mapscript 4.5 (development version from MapTools.org).
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dirk Jesko
>>
>>
>>
>>
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