angleitem for point symbols

[Brock Anderson]

I am also interested in rotating point symbols, especially vector 
symbols.  Is there currently an effort to add support for point symbol 
rotation?  I see this bug:

    http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=533

hasn't been updated in over a year.  As I understand it, it's currently 
impossible to rotate point symbols via both STYLE -> ANGLE , and STYLE 
-> ANGLEITEM.  Is that correct?

Brock

Jeff McKenna wrote:

> Sorry Francesco, I just tested again and it doesn't work for me 
> either.  I remember adding it to the documentation, for this bug 
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=815.  I just now got 
> ANGLEITEM to work with a hatched symbol again, but for a regular point 
> symbol it does not work.  I should update the doc to say that it is 
> only for hatched symbols...maybe someone else has info on this?
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> jeff
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> Francesco Sozzi wrote:
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>> Hi Jeff,
>>
>> I've also made a test with this definition:
>>
>> LAYER
>> NAME "Segnali"
>> TYPE POINT
>>
>> CONNECTIONTYPE oraclespatial
>> CONNECTION "ti_segnali/avs at franz"
>> DATA "GEOM FROM (SELECT a.fid, g.orientation, a.geom FROM ic_segnali 
>> a, ic_view_segnali_geo  g WHERE a.gid=g.gid) USING UNIQUE fid NONE"
>> STATUS DEFAULT
>>
>> CLASS
>>  NAME 'segnale'
>>  STYLE
>>   SYMBOL 'triangle'
>>   ANGLEITEM "orientation"
>>   SIZE 10
>>   COLOR 255 0 0
>>  END
>>  TEMPLATE "templates/default.html"
>> END
>> END
>>
>> In this case I have not a parse error, but all triangles are not 
>> rotated. It seems that this attribute is ignored.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Francesco
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff McKenna" 
>> <jmckenna at dmsolutions.ca>
>> To: "Francesco Sozzi" <fsozzi at INTERCAD.CH>
>> Cc: <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:09 PM
>> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] angleitem for point symbols
>>
>>
>>> yes, but ANGLEITEM should be specified in a STYLE object 
>>> (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc46/mapfile-reference.html#style).
>>>
>>> jeff
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>>> Francesco Sozzi wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>  I've found in http://dl.maptools.org/dl/mapserver_Changelog.txt a 
>>>> reference to ANGLEITEM for points (see 2005-08-05 14:45  sdlime). 
>>>> This is a good new because a rotation management for point symbols 
>>>> is strongly recommended in a map renderer.
>>>>  I've just compiled mapserver 4.6.1 and I tried to create a layer 
>>>> with this attribute, but I get a parse error.
>>>>  Anybody knows if this attribute i supported?
>>>>  This is my layer definition:
>>>>  LAYER
>>>>  NAME "Segnali"
>>>>  TYPE POINT
>>>>  CONNECTIONTYPE oraclespatial
>>>>  CONNECTION "ti_segnali/avs at franz <mailto:ti_segnali/avs at franz>"
>>>>  DATA "GEOM FROM (SELECT a.fid, g.orientation, a.geom FROM 
>>>> ic_segnali a, ic_segnali_geo g WHERE a.fid=g.fid) USING UNIQUE fid 
>>>> NONE"
>>>>  STATUS DEFAULT
>>>>  ANGLEITEM "orientation"
>>>>  CLASS
>>>>   NAME 'segnale'
>>>>   SYMBOL 'triangle'
>>>>   COLOR 0 255 0
>>>>   OUTLINECOLOR 183 183 183
>>>>   TEMPLATE "templates/default.html"
>>>>  END
>>>> END
>>>>  Best regards
>>>>  Francesco
>>>
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