Draw circle

[Stephen Woodbridge]

This sounds cool, is it in the documentation?

Steve Lime wrote:
> There is also a CIRCLE layer type. You can construct a shapefile of
> simple lines, 2 points per line. Where the points represent the bounding
> box for the circle (this works with inline features too). The LAYER
> might look like:
>
> LAYER
>   NAME 'circles'
>   TYPE CIRCLE
>   DATA '/usr/local/data/circles'
>   ...
> END
>
> Steve
>
>
>>>>Jeff Portwine <jdport at VERITIME.COM> 2/2/2005 10:24:37 AM >>>
>
>
> Put something like this in your map file.    The numbers in the
> "points" section refer to the diameter in the X direction and the
> diameter in the Y direction.   If the numbers are the same you get a
> circle, otherwise you will get an ellipse.
>
> SYMBOL
>     NAME "circle"
>     TYPE ellipse
>     FILLED true
>     POINTS
>       12 12
>     END
>  END
>
> -Jeff
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Jose Luis Gonzalez
>   To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>   Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 11:02 AM
>   Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Draw circle
>
>
>   Is there any easy way to draw a circle on a map without having to
> make it your self by drawing small lines?
>
>   thank you
>
>   Jose Luis
>