[mapserver-users] rectangle in reference map

[Pushkar Pradhan]

#
# Start of reference map
#
REFERENCE
  IMAGE graphics/reference.png
  EXTENT 482572 1031082 639981 1151888
  SIZE 300 232
  STATUS ON
  COLOR -1 -1 -1
  OUTLINECOLOR 255 0 0
END

Should be sufficient, works fine with standalone CGI as well as mapscript.
Hope this helps.

> Probably it is something quite stupid.
> I hesitated to question it here, but it seems my only hope left...
>
> I'd like to have a nice red rectangle in my reference map, showing me where I
> am in the map.
> I've set up a reference map in the map file, which displays OK. Only no red
> (neither other color) rectangle appears. Do I need to do something more than
> just refimage=$map->drawReferenceMap(); ?
> A rectangle query or something? The mapfile definition page mentions something
> like that at the reference object, but I can't find anything similar in the
> php_mapscript object definitions like a queryRectangle method or something
> similar...
> All images that I use are png.
> PHP=4.1.2
> Mapserver/mapscript = 3.6.0
>
> I already tried playing around with the color and outlinecolor items, but
> nothing happened.
>
> Thanks,
> Vincent.
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Here comes my map file:
>
> NAME "samboja"
> SIZE 400 440
> STATUS ON
> EXTENT 492499.336 9879200.289 502498.366 9890199.289
> UNITS METERS
> TRANSPARENT ON
> PROJECTION
>         "proj=utm"
>         "ellps=GRS80"
>         "zone=50"
>         "south"
>         "no_defs"
> END
> SHAPEPATH "./data"
>
>
> WEB
>         IMAGEPATH "/home/samboja/ms_tmp/"
>         IMAGEURL "/samboja/ms_tmp/"
>         MAXSCALE 70860
>         MINSCALE 4428
> END
>
>
> REFERENCE
>         IMAGE "/home/samboja/ms_data/data/reference/sl_ref.png"
>         EXTENT 492499.336 9879200.289 502498.366 9890199.289
>         COLOR 255 0 0
>         OUTLINECOLOR 255 0 0
>         SIZE 100 110
>         STATUS ON
> END
>
>
> LAYER
>         NAME "IKONOS2001"
>         MAXSCALE 70860
>         MINSCALE 70859
>         DATA "tilez0/1x1.png"
>         TYPE RASTER
>         STATUS ON
> END
> LAYER
>         NAME "IKONOS2001"
>         MAXSCALE 70859
>         MINSCALE 35429
>         TILEINDEX "tilez1_idx.shp"
>         TILEITEM "Location"
>         TYPE RASTER
>         STATUS ON
> END
> LAYER
>         NAME "IKONOS2001"
>         MAXSCALE 35429
>         MINSCALE 17714
>         TILEINDEX "tilez2_idx.shp"
>         TILEITEM "Location"
>         TYPE RASTER
>         STATUS ON
> END
> LAYER
>         NAME "IKONOS2001"
>         MAXSCALE 17714
>         MINSCALE 8857
>         TILEINDEX "tilez3_idx.shp"
>         TILEITEM "Location"
>         TYPE RASTER
>         STATUS ON
> END
> LAYER
>         NAME "IKONOS2001"
>         MAXSCALE 8857
>         MINSCALE 4428
>         TILEINDEX "tilez4_idx.shp"
>         TILEITEM "Location"
>         TYPE RASTER
>         STATUS ON
> END
> LAYER
>         NAME "IKONOS2001"
>         MAXSCALE 4428
>         MINSCALE 0
>         TILEINDEX "tilez5_idx.shp"
>         TILEITEM "Location"
>         TYPE RASTER
>         STATUS ON
> END
>
>
> LAYER
>         NAME "TILETEST"
>         DATA "tilez1_idx.shp"
>         TYPE POLYGON
>         CLASS
>                 COLOR -1 -1 -1
>                 OUTLINECOLOR 0 200 0
>         END
>         STATUS ON
> END
>
>
>
> END
>
>

-Pushkar S. Pradhan