Controlling line thickness

David Bitner osgis.lists at GMAIL.COM
Fri Dec 30 12:31:27 EST 2005


You could set up a class in your mapfile for each line thickness. 
Just use the thickness from the dbf in your expression and then you
can set the thickness (or color or symbol etc) in the class
definition.


On 12/30/05, Don Isgitt <djisgitt at soundenergy.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am plotting a contour map using Mapserver; the data is in a line type
> shapefile. There is a feature in the dbf that describes the line
> thickness, so as to allow , say, every fifth contour to be thicker than
> the others (or, for that matter, to be a different color). The contour
> map is being drawn fine, but being able to "bold" certain lines would be
> much better. I have not found a parameter that allows me to control line
> thickness. How can I do this?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Don
>



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