diff doku/source/restrictions.txt @ 232:4fc0635000d6

Merged with upstream
author Stephan Holl <stephan.holl@intevation.de>
date Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:56:15 +0200
parents df533a03ad9f
children d10fd4de02aa
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--- a/doku/source/restrictions.txt	Thu Jul 28 16:30:22 2011 +0200
+++ b/doku/source/restrictions.txt	Mon Aug 01 10:56:15 2011 +0200
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. index:: restrictions
+.. index:: restrictions, label, Raster, SDE, workaround, picture-symols
 .. _restriction-label:
 
 ------------
@@ -14,9 +14,11 @@
    resulting mapfile.
 
  * Since MapServer cannot use a FileGeodatabase datasources (yet) the MXD2map
-   does not support this datasource and will not transform the MXD-file at all.
+   does not support this datasource and will not transform the MXD-file at
+   all. This may change in the near future.
 
- * Raster data is not supported by the converter yet.
+ * Raster data is not supported by the converter yet, though ArcSDE
+   Raster-support will be available in the near future.
 
 Symbol support:
 
@@ -42,7 +44,8 @@
      converter, use integer numbers for line width only.
 
  * Picture symbols are not supported by the converter since ArcGIS embedds
-   the image directly into the MXDfile.
+   the image directly into the MXDfile. This might be supported in the
+   near future.
 
  * In ArcGIS maps default symbols can be defined as fallback within classifications. 
    Since MapServer does not support such fallback symbols or styles
@@ -53,11 +56,11 @@
 
 Layer support:
 
- * Grouplayer with more than  one group level are not supported by the MapServer
-   and even not by the converter.
-
+ * Group-layers are represented as WMS Named Layers (not requestable via
+   GetMap-Request). WMS-clients can recognize them as
+   'organisation-layers'.
  * Expressions for label are parsed by an internal parser in ArcGIS. The
-   expressions designed for this parser cannot be interpreted by the mapserver.
+   interpretation of this expressions is very limited though.
    Therefore label expressions may not contain any special functions or must fit
    the mapserver expression design pattern.
 
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