[Mapserver-users] variable (proportionately) sized point data

[Tyler Mitchell]

Gerry, I'm also curious on what's going on in the backend - some neat 
stuff at any rate.  Where do you get radar?

mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu wrote on 04/22/2004 02:04:56 AM:

> Gerry,
> 
> Gerry Creager N5JXS said:
> > Yes. Although I use the value to encode color on the site below, you
> > could similarly encode a size for the point symbol.
> >
> > http://mesonet.tamu.edu/cgi-bin/mapserv?
> mode=browse&zoomdir=0&zoomsize=2&layer=weather-
> pwv&imgxy=350+350&imgext=-106.800000+24.453029+-93.520000+37.
> 746971&map=%2Fvar%2Fwww%2Fmesonet%2Ftexas%2Fmesonet.
> map&savequery=true&program=%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmapserv&map_web_imagepath=%
> 2Fvar%2Fwww%2Fmesonet%2Ftmp%2F&map_web_imageurl=%2Ftmp%2F
> >
> 
> Which technique / command did you use for this ?
> 
> Moritz
> 
> 
> > Moritz Lennert wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Can Mapserver display point data as point symbols that are 
proportionate
> >> to a given value for each point ?
> >>
> >> In other words, if I have a, for example, a shapefile with points
> >> (cities
> >> for example) at the centroids of my spatial entities. Parallel to 
that I
> >> have a list of population sizes for each city. Can Mapserver display
> >> proportionate circles corresponding to the respective population 
sizes
> >> on
> >> the fly, or do I have to create a vector or raster file with the
> >> proportionate circles with an external program first and than display
> >> this
> >> with Mapserver ?
> >>
> >> Moritz
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