[ka-Map-users] Overlay Shapefiles

[Lorenzo Becchi]

> Thanks for the reply.  If the names aren’t the same?  How would I  
> add dynamic shapefiles?  Use Mapscript and modify tile.php?

do a php file that creates parametric mapfile on the fly. You'll have  
to study ka-map deeply.
good luck


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> I’d like to allow the user to dynamically fetch new overlays by  
> setting up services and toggle them on/off in the legend. For  
> example, the user may create 2 services with different parameters  
> to fetch overlays for 2 different areas.

that's not clear to me, sorry, can you refine?

ciao
lorenzo


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> From: ka-map-users-bounces at lists.maptools.org [mailto:ka-map-users- 
> bounces at lists.maptools.org] On Behalf Of Lorenzo Becchi
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:30 AM
> To: ka-map-users at lists.maptools.org ML
> Subject: [ka-Map-users] Overlay Shapefiles
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> Jeffrey,
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> > I have a web service that pulls shapefiles from another server  
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> How many shape files are you downloading at the same time?
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> Are their names always the same or they change at each download?
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> If names are always the same and you just overwrite them I think  
> your best solutions should be to put METADATA"tile_source"  
> "nocache" in the mapfile for each of this layers.
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> You can even think to use "redraw_interval"...
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> Specs here:
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> http://ka-map.ominiverdi.org/wiki/index.php/ 
> Mapfile_Metadata_Configuration#Mapfile_LAYER_Section
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> ciao
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> lorenzo
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