[Mapserver-users] Rotating symbols

[Eric Bridger]

Thorsten,

One solution to this is to use true type symbols.  This has come up
before in relation to displaying weather wind barbs:

http://lists.gis.umn.edu/pipermail/mapserver-users/2002-December/000041.html
This contains examples of how to do it.

Here is a link with a number of true type symbol fonts, one of which
contains geometric symbols.
http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/esri/index.htm

Here is a link to a Window TT font viewer to help you get the ascii char
number to use as text to get the symbol to display.  Then the angle and
size can also be set.

http://users.pandora.be/eclypse

Hope this helps.

Eric Bridger
Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System | www.gomoos.org

On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 10:09, Thorsten Fischer wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I was asked a question about symbols recently. A lady (who already makes
> heavy use of mapserver in her institute) involved into mapping
> seismographic events asked about the possibility of rotating labels. She
> has some ellipsoids (easy to create with a ELLIPSE symbol) but they need
> to be rotated, thus showing errors of measurement errors in the
> direction of the larger radius of the ellipse. I know of ANGLE and
> LABELANGLEITEM for labels; but that only covers annotations. Is there a
> way to rotate 'ordinary' symbols? Should I file a feature request? :)
> 
> 
> tia,
> 
> thorsten
> 
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