[ka-Map-users] selecting multiple layers

[Lorenzo Becchi]

Hi,
I really apreciate your work with KaMap.

We tried to do our personal version here:
http://149.139.8.29/~rischio/kamap-dev/htdocs/

We developed our system to check or unckeck layers visibility. You have 
to check layers an click on "ricarcola" button to see changes. Acting 
like this it works great.

Problems arise when you zoom in or out in a map that shows certain 
layers at certain scales.
In our case a layer called CTR is shown only under 1:500.000 resolution.
When you zoom in twice (1:250.000) in the center of Lucca (LU) province 
it has to appear a tile for the Tecnical Regional Map (CTR) because we 
set it visible in the map at this zoom factor. You can see  CTR in the 
Legend but the tile doesn't appear.
If you move (scroll?) in the map, far from that point, and you came 
back to the LU center the tile appears. It appears also if you click on 
"ricarcola" button.

What we did:
1) create a page ("layers.php") that calls the mapserver each time a 
zoom is clicked (or by default) and gives back a list of visible layers 
at the new zoom factor (js function getLayers()). This list is paired 
with the javascript session list and we finally get which layer is on 
and which layer is off (js function setLayersCsv()).
the result is shown right side of "zoom out" button ("Layerz").

2) we modified js function setTile() to pass onLayers variable set by 
setLayerCsv().

we where expecting that setLayerCsv was as fast as the 
zoomIn->initializeLayers->setTile series but first tiles coming still 
maintain "old" onLayers. After a while tiles are coming with the right 
combination of layer.
We tried to put a delay in zoom functions after setLayerCsv() and 
before initializeLayers() but it has to be a long delay (6 seconds at 
least) to work fine.

any suggestions?

I hope this explication is understandable.
thanks
Lorenzo
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