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    Maybe wrting a shape file would do the trick for you since you have
    the ability to add attributes?<br>
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    On 23/11/2010 9:56 AM, Burgholzer, Robert (DEQ) wrote:
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
              style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I
              have succeeded in generating a point layer
              dynamically thanks to a wiki entry (</span></font><a
            moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/PHPMapScriptAddPointScale">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/PHPMapScriptAddPointScale</a><font
            color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:
              10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">), but I find that
              I do not have the understanding that I need to color
              code these points by their value. &nbsp;These values are
              precipitation summaries,
              that I want to apply a color ramp to.</span></font></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
              style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
              style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I
              can&#8217;t figure out how to add an
              attribute other than the x,y,z, and m coordinates. &nbsp;Is
              this possible?&nbsp; I really
              want to do this without having to use my postgis
              connection, but rather, with
              this dynamically generated layer approach if possible.</span></font></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
              style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
              style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Thanks,</span></font></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
              style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">r.b.</span></font></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
              style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span
                style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Robert W.
                Burgholzer</span></font></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span
                style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Surface
                Water Modeler</span></font></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span
                style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Office of
                Water Supply and Planning</span></font></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span
                style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Virginia
                Department of Environmental Quality</span></font></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span
                style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a
                  moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="mailto:rwburgholzer@deq.virginia.gov">rwburgholzer@deq.virginia.gov</a></span></font></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span
                style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">804-698-4405</span></font></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span
                style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Open Source
                Modeling Tools:</span></font></p>
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                style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a
                  moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/npsource/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/npsource/</a></span></font></p>
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