Please see the end of the email for a variation on this problem --
On Aug 24, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Mr. Puneet Kishor wrote: > I need a tute (or a pointer to one online) on how to color polys in a > thematic map based on values retrieved from a separate table. I have > > table a > ------- > gid > attrib_id > the_geom > > table b > ------- > attrib_id > attrib_name > color_rgb (values such as "242 242 33" and "255 255 0") > > I would like to have MS color the polys and name the layers, ideally without > having to create the CLASS definitions for each of the 80+ attribs, something > akin to > > LAYER > NAME "my layer" > STATUS ON > TYPE POLYGON > CONNECTIONTYPE POSTGIS > .. > DATA "the_geom FROM (SELECT gid, the_geom, attrib_name, color_rgb FROM > a JOIN b ON a.attrib_id = b.attrib_id) view USING UNIQUE gid" > > CLASS > NAME [attrib_name] > STYLE > COLOR [color_rgb] > OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0 > END > END > END > > How do I accomplish something like above? Instead of getting the attrib name and color from the database, I want to get them from a remote web service. Could something like this be accomplished via SLDs? That is, MapServer requests an SLD from a remote server that tells it how to color each of the classes in the layer. Many tia. -- Puneet Kishor _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users