On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Christopher Schmidt <crschm...@crschmidt.net> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 04:33:04PM +0200, P Kishor wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Ian Turton <ijtur...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Bob Basques >> > <bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote: >> >> All, >> >> >> >> does anyone know if there is a layer hierarchy setting in the WMS service, >> >> which layers are on top of which layers (Z value=)? >> >> >> > >> > There is an "opaque" hint in the capabilities document that suggests >> > that the layer should be a base layer. Other than that the layers are >> > just drawn in the order the client requests them and there is no >> > implied ordering from the capabilities file. For example GeoServer >> > returns the layers in alphabetical order by namespace then layer name. >> > >> >> >> I was quite under the belief that the layers were requested, delivered >> and drawn in the order they appeared in the map.addLayers([array]) >> invocation. > > You're discussing an implementation (OpenLayers), with multiple requests to > the WMS server being stacked in the client. > > This discussion is about the WMS "API".
dang it... you are so right. Show how much my mind is consumed with OL nowadays. > > WMS draws layers from bottom to top, from the beginning of the list in the > 'layers' param to the end. > > layers=foo,bar,baz > > will put foo first, then bar, then baz. Yes indeed. > > -- Chris > >> >> > Ian >> > -- >> > Ian Turton >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Discuss mailing list >> > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >> > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > >> >> > -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss