POINTS data appearing only at large scales

[Holger Dürer]

Stephen Woodbridge wrote:

> Holger Dürer wrote:
>
>>  [...]
>> I have a simple shape file with points (state capitals).
>> The LAYER is quite simple, STATUS default, a NAME, TYPE points, DATA 
>> ..., a CLASS with a STYLE ... that's it.
>>
>> The layer will only render the points at a very large scale, once I 
>> zoom in past a certain value they disappear completly. Note that I 
>> did not add any MAXSCALE to my CLASS...
>>
> [...]
> It would be helpful if you could post your mapfile. If it has lots of 
> stuff in it you might want to remove all the layers except the POINT 
> layer. This works fine on dozens of mapfiles I have so it is probably 
> some other issue in the mapfile.

Yes, apologies for asking a question without much supporting information. 

For the moment, the problem seems solved though -- I did finally come up 
with a search query that resulted in an email exchanged related to some 
Oracle problems where the sata was in a problematic format. 
I use shapefiles (generated from a  MID/MIF file pair) but tried this 
anyway and did have luck by converting the files explicitly to POINTs 
(i.e. "ogr2ogr foo.shp foo.mif  -ntl POINT foo").  I have no idea what 
format it is without the "-ntl POINT", but with this option it now works...

Sorry again for the vague question
    Holger