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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple style='margin-left:3.0pt;margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:3.0pt;margin-bottom:.75pt'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Bob,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>We draw some data tables with maps as backgrounds by setting the transform off and then using simple x y locations and everything works very well.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ian<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Bob Basques<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 03, 2012 7:54 AM<br><b>To:</b> mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [mapserver-users] Anyone used MapServer to draw (things other thanmaps) with?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>All,</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>I'm needing to draw some simple, but longish charts showing a GPS timeline. I'm thinking about trying to set up MapServer to generate them dynamically.</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>In the past I would have went to PGPLOT for this type of thing (It's what I used for mapping before finding MapServer), And I see that it's installed in Ubuntu now by default.</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>So, my question, is this worth anything to anyone else? has anyone done this already, got any pointers? The data is all in POSTGIS, so I have a fair level of flexibility with formatting the data for MapServer use. I could for example format my data in such a way as to fool mapserver into thinking it's some sort of map projection for display, etc. I assume all should work well with straight Cartesian Coordinates.</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Thanks</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>bobb</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>