size of POINT in shp file

[Eric Bridger]

On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 15:01, w m wrote:
> For these symbols to appear, do we have to include a specific symbol and font library?? If so is it part of mapserver installation?
>
>
> Camden Daily <cdaily at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> You'll want to look into using STYLE and SYMBOL definitions in your map file.
>
> Here's an example of a layer with red circles for points that are 3
> pixels large.
>
> LAYER
> NAME "points"
> TYPE POINT
> STATUS DEFAULT
> DATA "points"
> CLASS
> STYLE
> SYMBOL 'circle'
> COLOR 255 0 0
> SIZE 3
> END
> END
> END
>
> SYMBOL
> NAME 'circle'
> TYPE ELLIPSE
> POINTS
> 1 1
> END
> FILLED TRUE
> END


This 'circle' SYMBOL is defined right in the map file. Look for
symbols.sym in your Mapserver installation and read about symbols here:

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc44/mapfile-reference.html