[mapserver-users] Polygon and Line Size

[Sathiskumar Govindasamy]

Is there a way to control the size of the outerline of the polygon ? 
Default seems to be too thin !!

Also, I have a bunch of Latitude and Longitude. Do I always need to have 
shapefiles to create a layer ? or is there a way to put symbols on that 
lat/long point ?

Sathis

Stephen Woodbridge wrote:

>Yes, you can set you EXTENTS in the mapfile to just cover the mainland.
>
>-Steve
>
>Sathiskumar Govindasamy wrote:
>
>>Thanks guys it works great. Thanks for your help. Yet another question.
>>I downloaded shapefiles from nationalatlas.gov. In the state boundaries
>>map, it has all the states in one shapefile. Is there a way to ignore
>>Alaska,  U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, etc keeping just the mainland
>>US ?
>>
>>-Sathis
>>
>>Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>>
>>>Yes, there are two utility programs the come with shapelib (dbfdump and
>>>shpdump) that are comand line utilities (on Windows you have to run them
>>>
>>>from a DOS window) dbfdump prints all the attributes from the .dbf file
>>
>>>and shpdump prints the shapefile extents and then all the coordinate
>>>info for every shape in the shape file.
>>>
>>>-Steve W.
>>>
>>>Sathiskumar Govindasamy wrote:
>>>
>>>>Steve,
>>>>
>>>>Is there a way to look at the contents of shapefile or its realted file
>>>>to know what is in it ?
>>>>
>>>>Sathis
>>>>
>>>>Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Sathis,
>>>>>
>>>>>The EXTENT in the map file is wrong. The census data is in Decimal
>>>>>Degrees so it should look like
>>>>>
>>>>>EXTENT -180.0 -90.0 180.0 90.0
>>>>>
>>>>>which will cover the whole globe, you can set these numbers smaller
>>>>>based on the real extents of you shapefile.
>>>>>
>>>>>-Steve W.
>>>>>