[mapserver-users] Re: Polygon and Line Size

[Stephen Woodbridge]

See

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/wilma/mapserver-users/0201/msg00422.html

Sathiskumar Govindasamy wrote:
> 
> 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.
> >>>>>