Shading Polygons and removing internal boundaries from shapefiles {Scanned} {Scanned}

[Siki Zoltan]

Hi,

You should use OGR connection for the shape file and a SELECT sql 
statement in the DATA statement of the map file to join the dbf to the 
shape.
See ogr howto in mapserver docs.

Zoltan

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Ravi wrote:

> Hi David,
> 
> I am not original poster but I have similar requirement.
> 
> I would like to shade polygons based on some data I have in a second 
> .dbf file (or data in a mysql server).
> 
> Thanks for helping
> Ravi
> 
> 
> Fawcett, David wrote:
> > Matt,
> >  
> > For question #1, are you talking about the .dbf that is part of the 
> > shapefile, or a second .dbf that you would like to join to? 
> >  
> > For question #2, I would just suggest downloading the legislative 
> > district shapefiles from the MN Legislative GIS Office:  
> > http://www.gis.leg.mn/metadata/leg02.htm  (there is a download link in 
> > the metadata)
> >  
> > David.
> > 
> >     -----Original Message-----
> >     *From:* UMN MapServer Users List
> >     [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Matt Pettis
> >     *Sent:* Monday, October 23, 2006 10:58 AM
> >     *To:* MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> >     *Subject:* [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Shading Polygons and removing
> >     internal boundaries from shapefiles
> > 
> >     Hi,
> >      
> >     I just installed MapServer because I want to do some graphical
> >     shading of polygons that represent MN voting precints.  I have two
> >     particular questions:
> >      
> >     1.  Is there an example mapfile or mapscript that helps me
> >     understand how to shade polygons on a scale based upon a numeric
> >     value in a .dbf file?
> >      
> >     2.  I want to graphically show Legislative districts, and I have
> >     voting precint shapefiles.  How do I aggregate precints that belong
> >     to a legislative district and make that one polygon, erasing the
> >     lines that would be internal to this aggregated region?
>