[mapserver-users] Symbols in MapInfo

[Agnieszka Żak]

Hi,
Thanks a lot. It works.
But I have some questions:
How can I read different line styles from MapInfo files (.tab). I have tried
to write 'mapinfo-xx' in my .sym file but I get only solid lines.
I want to read all MapInfo line styles. How can I change line style at run
time (I would like to give users a possibility to create workspace -
something like .wor in MapInfo).

I have MapInfo layer with lines, polygons and symbols. Do you have any idea
of how can I read this?

I use MapServer 3.5 and PHP.

Thanks for any help.

Regards,
Agnieszka Żak


> When you use STYLEITEM AUTO, MapServer tries to match symbol names
> returned by OGR to names in your symbol file.  For a quick solution, try
> using the following symbol file:
>
> http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/msapps/yk_demo/etc/symbols_mapinfo.sym
>
> The name of the symbols returned by OGR to MapServer depends on the file
> format.  In the case of MapInfo files, it will be:
>
> - For "old-style" symbols (default MapInfo 3.0 symbols numbered 32 to
>   67) the symbol name will be 'mapinfo-sym-##' where '##' is the symbol
>   number, e.g. 'mapinfo-sym-32'
>
> - For "Font Symbols", the symbol name is also 'mapinfo-sym-##' where
>   '##' is the symbol number in the font.  In this case, the name of
>   the font itself is ignored by MapServer.
>
> - MapInfo also supports "custom symbols" (bitmap symbols)... I'm not
>   sure what you would get from OGR for this, but I'm pretty sure that
>   MapServer doesn't do anything useful with them.
>
>
> Also note that the 'ogrinfo' utility can be used to find out exactly
> which symbol names OGR will return to MapServer.  Look at the "Style"
> string in the ogrinfo output for each shape that is read.
>
> I hope that helps,
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>  Daniel Morissette               morissette at dmsolutions.ca
>  DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
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