[mapguide-users] trouble replicating interstate symbol definition

[Jonathan Manafi]

Has anyone else tried to implement interstate signs?

Thanks.


J Manafi wrote:
> I have been reading RFC 14 to understand composite features, and so far, it
> has gone well. However, up until now, I haven't used any images in the
> symbol definition. I tried replicating the interstate using a highway badge,
> stored as a .png file in a symbol library, and I am having no luck. I simply
> copied and pasted the xml for the symbol, changing my library paths, and I
> only get the text to show up. Here's what I did:
>
> -downloaded image of highway badges
> -cropped image to one I needed
> -uploaded to symbol library through studio 2008
> -copy/pasted code for symbol definition and changed path
> -tried creating layer using pointing to symbol
>
> I first tried only the highway badge. But after that, I tried a
> CompoundSymbolDefinition that included 2 paths to draw the road in yellow
> and black. Everything but the badge showed up. I thought maybe editing the
> image caused some issues, but I was able to use the image as a W2D stream in
> a PointSymbolization2D layer.
>
> Can anyone help me determine what I have done wrong here? My setup is MGOS
> 1.2, win XP, apache + php.
>
> I am including the files that I used to go through this process.
>
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p18820020/Symbol%2BDef.txt Symbol Def.txt 
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p18820020/Layer%2BDef.txt Layer Def.txt 
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p18820020/interstate.png interstate.png 
>