[mapserver-users] Re: Polygon layer with no fill shows line thumbnail in the legend image

[Daniel Morissette]

Personally, I do not feel strongly either way, other than being hesitant 
to change something that's been in place for 8 years. Perhaps an option 
could be added to control the type of icon to generate?

On 11-06-16 07:12 AM, Tamas Szekeres wrote:
> Any update on this one?
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> Tamas
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> 2011/5/28 Tamas Szekeres <szekerest at gmail.com <mailto:szekerest at gmail.com>>
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>     Folks,
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>     According to a client's report, the current behaviour of drawing the
>     legend images may be confusing, as the polygon layer with no fill
>     shows line thumbnail (zigzag) in the legend image.
>     I've been tracking down the changes in SVN and came to the conlusion
>     that this behaviour has been introduced with
>     http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/changeset/2172 8 years ago.
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>     I'd be curious to know if this approach is satisfactory for all
>     users, or would it be more convenient to show an empty rectangle in
>     these cases? I would personally be in favour of drawing a rectangle
>     in order to make it clear that the layer type is polygon and not
>     line. Or is there any other reason that I'm not aware of, which
>     makes the current approach more compelling?
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>     Best regards,
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>     Tamas
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