In this recipe, you have seen how to create a WMS Time service using the MapServer open source web-mapping engine. A WMS Time service is useful for whenever you have temporal series and geographic data varying in the time. WMS Time lets the user filter the requested data by providing a TIME parameter with a time value in the WMS requests.
For this purpose, you first created a plain WMS; if you are new to the WMS standard, mapfile, and MapServer, you can check out the first recipe in this chapter. You have imported in PostGIS a points shapefile with one week's worth of hotspots derived from the MODIS satellite and created a simple WMS for this layer.
After verifying that this WMS works well by testing the WMS GetCapabilities ...
