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<DIV><SPAN class=780375513-15072009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Paul,
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color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780375513-15072009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Your polygon
data is red because you are telling MapServer to color it red.
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780375513-15072009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780375513-15072009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>In the class
in your layer 'map' (probably not a great layer or class name), you are using a
style to color your polygons. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780375513-15072009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780375513-15072009>
CLASS<BR> NAME
'map'<BR>
STYLE<BR> COLOR 255 0
0<BR>
END<BR> LABEL <BR> TYPE
bitmap<BR> END<BR> END<BR></SPAN><SPAN
class=780375513-15072009></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780375513-15072009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>You have set
the value of the color property to be 255 0 0. Colors are set as RGB (Red
Green Blue) triplets. In that line, you are saying, 'color it with the
full amount of red and don't use any green or blue'.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780375513-15072009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780375513-15072009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>If you change
the value to 0 0 255, you will see blue polygons. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780375513-15072009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780375513-15072009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>For an easy
way to come up with prettier colors, take a look at ColorBrewer: <A
href="http://www.personal.psu.edu/cab38/ColorBrewer/ColorBrewer_intro.html">http://www.personal.psu.edu/cab38/ColorBrewer/ColorBrewer_intro.html</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780375513-15072009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=780375513-15072009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>David.</FONT></DIV></SPAN>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Paul
Curran<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 15, 2009 5:20 AM<BR><B>To:</B> mapser
all users<BR><B>Subject:</B> [mapserver-users] Mapfile displaying in
red<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Hi <BR> <BR>When i load my map file which can be
seen below i can view the outline of map but the actual map displays
as red. I am viewing the map via the mapserver.exe (e.g.<A
href="http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?mode=map&map=c:/ms4w/apps/openlayers-2.5/data/test.map&layer='map'">http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?mode=map&map=c:/ms4w/apps/openlayers-2.5/data/test.map&layer='map'</A>)<BR> <BR>Here
is my map file, Can anyone spot were i am going wrong? any help greatly
appreciated.<BR> <BR>The uk.shp file i am attempting to load consists
of .tiff images amd was put together using
FWTools<BR> <BR>MAP<BR>NAME test<BR> # Map image size<BR>
SIZE 400 600<BR> IMAGECOLOR 249 245 186<BR> IMAGETYPE
PNG24<BR> OUTPUTFORMAT<BR> NAME
PNG24<BR> DRIVER 'GD/PNG'<BR> MIMETYPE
'image/PNG'<BR> #IMAGEMODE PC256<BR>
EXTENSION 'png'<BR> END<BR> EXTENT -888385.321101 -31000.000000
1548385.321101 1271000.000000<BR> <BR>
WEB<BR> IMAGEPATH "\ms4w\tmp\ms_tmp\"<BR> IMAGEURL
"\ms_tmp\"<BR> METADATA<BR> WMS_SRS
"EPSG:4326 EPSG:900913"<BR> END<BR> END<BR>
LAYER<BR> NAME 'map'<BR> DATA
'C:\ms4w\apps\openlayers-2.5\data\map.shp'<BR> TYPE
polygon<BR> STATUS DEFAULT<BR>
TRANSPARENCY 100<BR> PROJECTION<BR>
'proj=longlat'<BR> 'ellps=WGS84'<BR>
'datum=WGS84'<BR> 'no_defs'<BR>
''<BR> END<BR>
CLASS<BR> NAME
'map'<BR>
STYLE<BR> COLOR 255 0
0<BR>
END<BR> LABEL <BR> TYPE
bitmap<BR> END<BR> END<BR>
END<BR>END<BR> <BR><BR>
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