[Geomoose-users] Symbol creation?

[Brent Fraser]

Johan,

   Have you looked at the mapserver doc on symbols: 
http://mapserver.org/mapfile/symbology/construction.html ?  There is one just 
above the Examples section that do what you want.

   And there's some good info at http://umn.mapserver.ch (see the section on 
Symbols)

Best Regards,
Brent Fraser

Johan Forsman wrote:
> Hello All:
> 
> I have studied the documentation regarding creating one's own symbols, specifically for hydrography. With tips collected from a little bit of everywhere I was able to create a very nice representation for intermittent streams but am having limited success creating one to represent a human-made canal.
> 
> For the intermittent stream I used
> 
> SYMBOL # Three dots, one line
> 	NAME "dash3dot2"
> 	TYPE ellipse
> 	POINTS 1 1 END
> 	FILLED true
> 	PATTERN 1 5 1 5 1 5 12 5 END
> END
> 
> For the human-made canal I want something that looks similar to a repeating "T", as in
> 
> TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
> 
> I did try to use a T from the Arial family, but two issues came up: 1) There were spaces between the letters; and 2) The letters did not turn with the lines but where always upright.
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction?
> 
> Thanks!
> Johan.
> 
> ----------------------
> Johan Forsman, M.Sc.
> Geologist
> Safe Drinking Water Program
> Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals
> Office of Public Health
> Telephone: 225.342.7309
> Telefax: 225.342.7303
> 
> 
> 
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