Steve, I think I’m going to need to experiment with dynamic calls in some manner.
I have the sub-list items all coming out now, but the legend is already pretty big: [http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us/datasets/UTILITIES_COMM/SEWERS/storm.map?FORMAT=image/png&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetLegendGraphic&_OLSALT=0.44218986502012125&SCALE=821.740340641835&WIDTH=250&STYLE=&LAYER=all] Adding in a color coding for separation to the above will be too much for most browser maps. So I’m thinking about setting up a method for defining each ownership layer based on a CGI filter. Seems the easiest to make work. There are 7 or 8 ownership classifications that would need to be hardcoded. And if I can set it up to work with multiple filter items in the legend, then I still have the option for generating the really long legend if needed simply by stringing the filter items onto a single call. Not sure how that’s going to work exactly, or if it can. bobb On Dec 15, 2017, at 8:04 AM, Lime, Steve D (MNIT) <steve.l...@state.mn.us<mailto:steve.l...@state.mn.us>> wrote: You might be able to lay it out as a map (using a mapfile) with a bunch of inline features that you could assign symbols (could be calls to MapServer to get legend icons since a SYMBOL can be a URL) and labels. The problem is that if this needs to be really dynamic (different layers show/hide) then I think you’d have to lay things out using other tools – MapScript, ImageMagik or something else along those line. MapScript could probably automate much of the layout as a map/mapfile programmatically. --Steve Looking for something like this: Storm — Fitting (blue) — Catchbasin (blue) — Manhole (blue) — Forcemain (blue) — Storm Pipe (blue) Storm, Private — Fitting (lightblue) — Catchbasin (lightblue) — Manhole (lightblue) — Forcemain (lightblue) — Storm Pipe (lightblue) Storm, Saint Paul — Fitting (purple) — Catchbasin (purple) — Manhole (purple) — Forcemain (purple) — Storm Pipe (purple) etc. Each of the sub list items are a separate layer in the MAPFILE, and the Main headings, would be used to filter on. Do all 15 layers above need to be defined in order to get a line in the legend to appear. This is just an example BTW, I have many more main headings to contend with. I guess it comes down to, how do I grab the filter item and insert it into the Legend graphic, and probably along with the color assignment as well. Maybe I’m thinking about this backwards. I could pass in the color along with the main heading filter . . . but how to get a composite legend. Maybe it needs to be three (or more) different calls. . . . . A simpler description of the need, is to display a seamless Sewer network with color coded ownership, but using the same cartography for each sub-heading. Hmm, maybe an INCLUDE . . . It feels like a Monday today for some reason . . . . :c) bobb We learn from history that we do not learn from history. ~ George Wilhelm Hegel The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. —A. A. Milne
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