[MAPSERVER-USERS] Displaying population density with Mapserver

Pierre-Benoit Besse besse.pb at gmail.com
Tue May 27 11:06:58 EDT 2008


Yes, but I need them to adapt for different extents.

For example, When I zoom out enough to see the world, I need them 1 pixel
wide (it's ugly otherwise), but when I zoom in I will need then 2 or 5 or
even 30 pixels wide to cover all space.

2008/5/27 Ritesh Ambastha <group.ritesh at gmail.com>:

>
> Dear Faldor,
>
> <snip>What I need is to have the points grow to cover all space available
> when I zoom in.</snip>
>
> Do you mean that the size of points should grow? It can be done easily by
> setting proper SIZE in the STYLE tag.
>
>
> Regards,
> Ambastha
>
>
>
> Faldor wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sorry for my first empty message.
> >
> > My problem is, I need to display population density with Mapserver. The
> > data comes from GPWv3 and has a resolution of 15'. I converted it to a
> > POINT Shapefile using ogr2ogr.
> >
> > At first when I display it on a world map it shows nicely. But when I
> zoom
> > in it begins to show separated points for each value in the shapefile.
> > What I need is to have the points grow to cover all space available when
> I
> > zoom in.
> >
> > Is there any mean to do it with Mapserver ? I did not find it in the
> > mapfile reference.
> >
> > I don't know if I explained it well (I'm not english speaking). If you do
> > not understand something, please ask.
> >
> > Cordialy,
> >
> > Faldor
> >
> >
> >
>
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