Problem with SIZEITEM

[Pierre Racine]

Thanks Jeff,

That's the only way I found to create a proportional symbol map. Is there 
any other way to achieve this?

Pierre

>From: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at dmsolutions.ca>
>To: Pierre Racine <racine_pierre at HOTMAIL.COM>
>CC: MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu
>Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Problem with SIZEITEM
>Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:05:55 -0400
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>I've filed a bug about this, because i get the same response that you do on 
>a point file (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1398).
>
>jeff
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>Pierre Racine wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Anybody tried the SIZEITEM with Mapserver 4.6?
>>
>>If I publish the minimal map file with SIZEITEM based on an integer
>>attribute, the size of the symbol doesn't change. Worse: if I add a LABEL
>>definition, Mapserver crashes, publishing only half a jpeg.
>>
>>Here is my mapfile with the LABLE definition:
>>
>>MAP
>>   #IMAGETYPE JPEG
>>   EXTENT 189775 4716305 731662 5472414
>>   SIZE 400 600
>>   SHAPEPATH "data\shp"
>>   FONTSET "D:\ms4w\fonts\fonts.txt"
>>
>>   SYMBOL
>>     NAME "circle"
>>     TYPE ellipse
>>     FILLED true
>>     POINTS
>>       8 8
>>     END
>>   END
>>
>>   PROJECTION
>>    "init=epsg:102010"
>>   END
>>
>>   LAYER # States polygon layer begins here
>>       NAME escale
>>       DATA escale
>>       STATUS DEFAULT
>>       TYPE POINT
>>
>>       PROJECTION
>>         "init=epsg:102010"
>>       END
>>
>>       LABELITEM "id"
>>       CLASS
>>         STYLE
>>             SYMBOL "circle"
>>             SIZEITEM "duration"
>>             COLOR 1 255 1
>>             #SIZE 28
>>             #MINSIZE 12
>>             OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
>>         END
>>         LABEL
>>           COLOR 155 135 0
>>           TYPE TRUETYPE
>>           FONT arial
>>           SIZE 12
>>           FORCE true
>>           POSITION uc
>>
>>         END #LABEL
>>       END #CLASS
>>   END #LAYER
>>END
>>
>>Pierre Racine
>>
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>Jeff McKenna
>DM Solutions Group Inc.
>http://www.dmsolutions.ca
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