Wide line symbols

[Berend Veldkamp]

Thanks, that's fast...
BTW 'landview' is pretty cool,
Berend

----- Origineel Bericht -----
Van: "Stephen Lime" <steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us>
Datum: Donderdag 16 November 2000 14:54
Onderwerp: Re: Wide line symbols

> There is, even in 3.3.xxx. In the older versions you had to use 
> ellipse symbols (which are scalable) and draw the layer twice to 
> achieve this. In the CVS code I've added a series of "overlay..." 
> parameters (e.g. OVERLAYCOLOR, OVERLAYSIZE, OVERLAYMAXSIZE...) 
> that allow you to stack 2 symbols- which should cover the vast 
> majority of uses. You still need to use ellipse symbols.
> 
> SYMBOL
>  NAME 'circle'
>  TYPE ELLIPSE
>  FILLED
>  POINTS 1 1 END
> END
> 
> You can see the effect in this interface:
> 
>  http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/landview/
> 
> Look a the roads layer. The mapfile can be viewed at:
> 
>  http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/landview/view.map
> 
> If multiple classes need overlay symbols AND those classes can 
> intersect then the current algorithm breaks down. In that case you 
> need to bust the single shapefile into single, class specific 
> files. The only way around that is pre-sort the shapes based on 
> class and adapt the code to deal with it. (comming soon)
> 
> The CVS version also features the ability to define symbols within 
> the mapfile. The example mapfile mentioned above also does that. 
> For GIF/PNG symbols you can use the filename for the symbol (i.e. 
> SYMBOL images/myimage.gif) and that will work too. That behavior 
> is present in 3.3.011.
> 
> Steve
>