[mapserver-users] Polyline problem

[Stepan Kafka]

POLYLINE in MS has different meaning than in ArcView.
There is a hollow polygon in MS (it means you can use line symbols for it
but it is still a polygon).
You must use only LINE parameter for "PolyLine" shapefiles from ArcView.

Stepan

>
>
> Hi again.
>
> I'm having a problem with polyline shapes.
>
> mapserv says:
>
> msDrawShapefileLayer(): General error message. POLYGON layers must be
> POLYGON shapefiles.
>
> As you can see in the map file, the layer is declared as POLYLINE not
> a POLYGON, so I don't understand why it doesn't work as expected.
>
> The shape is a polyline made with ArcView. If I change the layer to be a
> LINE, mapserv displays a dot, unzoomable.
>
> Here's my map file:
>
> #
> # Start of map file
> #
> NAME BUSES
> SIZE 600 600
> SYMBOLSET ./symbols/symbols.sym
> EXTENT -71.812301 -33.413659 -71.18889 -33.04636
> UNITS METERS
> SHAPEPATH "buses"
> IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
>
> PROJECTION
>  "proj=utm"
>  "ellps=GRS80"
>  "zone=19"
>  "south"
>  "no_defs"
> END
>
> #
> # Start of web interface definition
> #
> WEB
>   HEADER buses_h.html
>   TEMPLATE buses.html
>   FOOTER buses_f.html
>   MINSCALE 1000
>   MAXSCALE 1550000
>   IMAGEPATH "/var/www/html/ms_demo/tmp/"
>   IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
>   LOG "buses.log"
> END
>
> #
> # Start of scalebar
> #
>
> SCALEBAR
>
> 	[yadda yadda yadda]
>
> END
>
> #
> # Start of layer definitions
> #
>
> LAYER
>     NAME r_bus5
>     TYPE POLYLINE
>     STATUS DEFAULT
>     DATA r_bus5
>     CLASS
>         COLOR 100 150 54
>     END
> END
>
> END # Map File
>
>
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>