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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Is there a way of incorporating something like the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">WMSBrowser widget in an application, without having to implement a popup style of window/interface? I would like to be able to provide a static list of available WMS servers, and allow users to select layers from each of these servers depending on their needs.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">If this is not possible, is there a way to incorporate multiple WMS layer names into a single layer object within a map file? WMS servers for both British Columbia</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">and Ontario provide a great deal of information, but I do not want to have 100+ layer objects in my map file to manage.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">request</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">to the WMS server, if the layer is outside of the requested map extent?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks for any suggestions,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" FACE="Comic Sans MS">Timothy Pascoe</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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