[mapserver-users] rotation of vector symbol

[thomas bonfort]

it's a known problem
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2671

cheers,
thomas

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Alberto Poggi <albpoggi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
> Let me tell you about an issue of rotation of the vector symbols. I
> found that in mapserver the rotation of these symbols does not follow
> the classic rules that provide for the starting rotation in sequence
> from east to the north, west and south. I published my work with
> PMAPPER and MAPSERVER and I noticed that the rotation is done on the
> other hand (east, south, west and north), and only on symbols of a
> vector. This problem on the labelling does not exist and the rotation
> is correct.
> The layer referenced for symbol is a postgis table that contains a
> field "rotazione" used by MapServer for the rotation of symbols. The
> display of symbols is right but the rotation is done wrong.
> This is the definition of my symbol:
> SYMBOL
>  NAME "valvola"
>  TYPE vector
>  POINTS
>    0 0
>    1.5 1
>    1.5 0
>    0 1
>    0 0
>  END
>  FILLED TRUE
> END
>  and this is the notation in the mapfile:
> LAYER
>  NAME "Valvole"
>  TYPE POINT
>  CONNECTIONTYPE postgis
>  CONNECTION "user=****** password=***** dbname=ACQUA host=localhost"
>  DATA "the_geom FROM valvole"
>  STATUS DEFAULT
>  MAXSCALE 5001
>  TOLERANCE 10
>  TOLERANCEUNITS pixels
>  PROJECTION
>    "init=epsg:32632"
>  END
>
>  METADATA
>    "DESCRIPTION" "Valvole"
>    "RESULT_FIELDS" "comune,localita"
>    "RESULT_HEADERS" "Comune,Località"
>    "LAYER_ENCODING" "UTF-8"
>    "ows_title"      "Dati valvole"
>  END  # Metadata
>
>  CLASS
>        NAME   "Valvole"
>
>        STYLE
>        SYMBOL 'valvola'
>        COLOR   0 255 255
>        OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
>        ANGLE [rotazione]
>        SIZE 8
>        END
>  END
>  TEMPLATE void
> END
>
> It's me that something wrong or is a known problem? Thank you.
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