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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">I've done a bit of this with river cross sections but IMHO there are simply better tools out there. Personally I like matplotlib although the learning curve is a little steep. You
can do a lot with not much code.<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF520433"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Bob Basques [Bob.Basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 03, 2012 9:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [mapserver-users] Anyone used MapServer to draw (things other than maps) with?<br>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">All,</font>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">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.</font>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">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.</font>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">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.</font>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">Thanks</font>
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