<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">G'day all, <div><br></div><div>I seem to be regressing here - rushing before Christmas maybe?</div><div><br></div><div>I am trying to draw a reference map (with the nice red box showing which part of the bigger map I am zoomed into.</div><div><br></div><div>I took my initial map image, shrunk it down into a gif file, and saved it as my refmap.gif</div><div><br></div><div>I added this REFERENCE section:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> REFERENCE</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> </font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'">STATUS </font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'">ON</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> </font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'">EXTENT </font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'">90 4 120 24 ## 88 -2 128 28</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> </font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'">IMAGE</font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'">"../images/refmap.gif"</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> </font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'">SIZE</font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'">225 175</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> </font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'">COLOR </font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'">-1 -1 -1</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> </font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'">OUTLINECOLOR</font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> 255 0 0</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> END</font></div><div><br></div><div>And put this in my template :</div><div><br></div><div><div> <font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> <input type="image" name="ref" src="[ref]" style="border:0;width:225;height:175"></font></div><div><br></div><div>And it was a beautiful thing, my newly created map image appeared, as if my magic.</div><div><br></div><div>However, as I zoomed in no box appeared, nor even cross hairs.</div><div><br></div><div>From looking around, it would appear I might be the first person in history this has not worked for?</div><div><br></div><div>Have I missed something. I have :</div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'">MapServer version 5.2.1 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP OUTPUT=SWF OUTPUT=SVG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=AGG SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=ICONV SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER SUPPORTS=SOS_SERVER SUPPORTS=GEOS INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE</font></div><div><br></div><div>(thanks again to William Kyngesbury)</div><div><br></div><div>and the rest of the map details are :</div><div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'">MAP</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> NAME trade</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> UNITS DD</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> EXTENT 90 4 120 24 # full map extents</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> SIZE 900 700</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> SHAPEPATH "geodata/"</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> FONTSET "geodata/fonts/fonts.lst"</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> SYMBOLSET "geodata/symbols/symbols.sym"</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> IMAGECOLOR 230 240 255</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> CONFIG "MS_ERRORFILE" "/Users/19022662/mserr.txt"</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> DEBUG 4</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> OUTPUTFORMAT</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> NAME 'AGG'</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> DRIVER AGG/PNG</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> IMAGEMODE RGB</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> END</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> PROJECTION</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> "init=epsg:4326"</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'"> END</font></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Ben</div><div><br></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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