<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><div>I'm going to have to be quick with this one 'cuz I'm sorta busy today.<br><br>1) You'll have better results with GIF across different browsers.<br>2) The MAP needs TRANSPARENT set to ON<br>3) Set the background color to white.<br>4) Setting transparency to "20" inside the layer will cause undesirable results in GeoMOOSE as the default transparency is set in the <map> tag's opacity attribute.<br><br>-Duck<br><br>MAP<br> NAME 'School_boundary'<br> SIZE 800 650<br> STATUS ON<br> EXTENT 347683.125124 1652890.274125 458837.845673 1759026.124282<br> UNITS feet<br><br> #Duck Changes<br> TRANSPARENT ON<br> IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255<br><br> FONTSET '../fonts/fonts.list'<br> SYMBOLSET
'../symbols/symbol.sym'<br> OUTPUTFORMAT<br> NAME 'png'<br> DRIVER GD/PNG<br> IMAGEMODE RGBA<br> EXTENSION "png"<br> FORMATOPTION "FULL_RESOLUTION=TRUE"<br> FORMATOPTION "INTERLACE=OFF"<br> TRANSPARENT ON<br> END #end outputformat<br><br>IMAGETYPE GIF<br> QUERYMAP<br> STATUS ON<br> STYLE SELECTED<br> END</div>
<div> WEB<br> IMAGEURL "/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp/"<br> IMAGEPATH "/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp/"<br> END</div>
<div> LEGEND<br> STATUS ON<br> END</div>
<div><br> LAYER<br> NAME 'School_district'<br> TYPE POLYGON<br> DATA '/ms4w/apps/GeoMOOSE/maps_countydemo/social_service/school_boundaries.shp'<br> METADATA<br> 'wms_title' 'school_boundary'<br> END<br> STATUS DEFAULT<br> #TRANSPARENCY 20<br> #MAXSCALE 2000000<br> LABELITEM 'NAME'<br> CLASS<br> NAME 'esn_boundary'<br> STYLE<br> SYMBOL 0<br> SIZE 2<br> OUTLINECOLOR 0 255 170<br> COLOR 224 255 255<br> END<br>
LABEL<br> TYPE TRUETYPE<br> FONT arial<br> SIZE 8<br> COLOR 233 122 100<br> ANGLE 0<br> POSITION CC<br> MINDISTANCE 250<br> BUFFER 1<br> WRAP " "<br> END<br> END<br> END</div>
<div>END</div></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> John Kummun <boache578@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> geomoose-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, November 17, 2008 9:58:38 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Geomoose-users] TRANSPARENCY PROBLEM<br></font><br>
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<div>I need suggestions for the following problems:</div>
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<div> I want to put transparency on polygon layer so that aerial photo could be seen below it. I have tried TRANSPARECY and OPACITY but i only get faded not transparent layer. My imagetype is PNG. Here is the mapfile</div>
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<div>MAP<br> NAME 'School_boundary'<br> SIZE 800 650<br> STATUS ON<br> EXTENT 347683.125124 1652890.274125 458837.845673 1759026.124282<br> UNITS feet<br> FONTSET '../fonts/fonts.list'<br> SYMBOLSET '../symbols/symbol.sym'<br> OUTPUTFORMAT<br> NAME 'png'<br> DRIVER GD/PNG<br> IMAGEMODE RGBA<br> EXTENSION "png"<br> FORMATOPTION "FULL_RESOLUTION=TRUE"<br> FORMATOPTION "INTERLACE=OFF"<br> TRANSPARENT ON<br> END #end outputformat<br> #IMAGETYPE PNG<br> QUERYMAP<br> STATUS ON<br> STYLE SELECTED<br> END</div>
<div> WEB<br> IMAGEURL "/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp/"<br> IMAGEPATH "/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp/"<br> END</div>
<div> LEGEND<br> STATUS ON<br> END</div>
<div><br> LAYER<br> NAME 'School_district'<br> TYPE POLYGON<br> DATA '/ms4w/apps/GeoMOOSE/maps_countydemo/social_service/school_boundaries.shp'<br> METADATA<br> 'wms_title' 'school_boundary'<br> END<br> STATUS DEFAULT<br> TRANSPARENCY 20<br> #MAXSCALE 2000000<br> LABELITEM 'NAME'<br> CLASS<br> NAME 'esn_boundary'<br> STYLE<br> SYMBOL 0<br> SIZE 2<br> OUTLINECOLOR 0 255 170<br> COLOR 224 255 255<br> END<br>
LABEL<br> TYPE TRUETYPE<br> FONT arial<br> SIZE 8<br> COLOR 233 122 100<br> ANGLE 0<br> POSITION CC<br> MINDISTANCE 250<br> BUFFER 1<br> WRAP " "<br> END<br> END<br> END</div>
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<div>Thanks </div>
<div>John</div>
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