a good link - i've found it yesterday :D<br><br><a href="http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/cartosymbols/#using-cartographic-symbols-in-umn-mapserver">http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/cartosymbols/#using-cartographic-symbols-in-umn-mapserver
</a><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2006/12/27, Steve Lime <<a href="mailto:Steve.Lime@dnr.state.mn.us">Steve.Lime@dnr.state.mn.us</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The type refers to the base type of the brush or marker you are creating<br>not<br>to the type of feature it is useful for. It's true in this case that<br>with the addition<br>of the style that this symbol is only really useful for lines, but you
<br>could draw<br>markers with it or fill polygons in which case the dashing would be<br>ignored.<br><br>I think ideally we should pull the style, better called a pattern, out<br>into the<br>class style. That would eliminate this type of confusion...
<br><br>Steve<br><br>>>> Bill Thoen <<a href="mailto:bthoen@GISNET.COM">bthoen@GISNET.COM</a>> 12/26/2006 7:42:59 PM >>><br>I'm trying to learn the MapServer lore and now I'm focusing on symbols.
<br>Can<br>anyone tell me what the logic is where one is defining a _line_ style<br>by<br>using a TYPE of ELLIPSE (instead of LINE) and POINTS definition of one<br>(x<br>y) as in the symbol definition below? (This is from
<br><a href="http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/symbology/examples">http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/symbology/examples</a>).<br><br>SYMBOL<br> NAME 'dashed1'<br> TYPE ELLIPSE<br> POINTS 1 1 END
<br> FILLED true<br> STYLE 10 5 5 10 END<br>END<br><br>I'm just curious. This seems like some historical artifact from the<br>days<br>when learning MapServer was hard. ;-)<br><br>The TYPE ELLIPSE seems especially weird to me. Why not TYPE LINE?
<br><br>- Bill Thoen<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Eduardo Zenaide