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How do you get transparent background in a layer with UMN mapserver?

I want to include different sources of maps in a mapclient. One source I provide myself with a self-written mapfile rendered by an UMN-mapserver. Problem is, that UMN renders the background (places there no feature is) as white, and if I combine this in the mapclient, this hides all layers behind. What do I write into the mapfile, that t...

How can I display borders for geometries with UMN-Mapserver only when zoomed in a lot?

I have a map-file for UMN, that displays a layer of vectors, each geometry with different colors depending on their attributes. That works fine. I also want to add borders around each geometry. That's no problem, but on the view showing the complete area, the borders dominate the image, because each geometry has only a few pixels. So I w...

How to reproject map with a cascading UMN-mapserver?

I have UMN configured as a cascading mapserver. I want it to reproject the map while cascading through UMN. How can I do that? Is that possible at all? ...

Is the map-Parameter of the UMN-mapserver conform to the OGC WMS-specification?

Say you have a mapserver-url like this: http://host/cgi-bin/mapserv?MAP=/path/to/mapfile.map& Is a WMS specified in this way conform to the OGC WMS-specification? Some say the map-parameter is a vendor-specific parameter, but you also could see it as part of the URL-prefix for this service (ending with ? or & as specified, it's an &...

Why does UMN-Mapserver shows an ERDAS Image-File (.img) as white shape?

I want to render an ERDAS-Image-file (suffix .img) with the UMN-Mapserver. The data is rendered on the right position and with the correct shape, but all data is white instead of an raster-image. The Image contains many layers. My mapfile looks like this: MAP NAME "Test" WEB METADATA ...