[Fwd: Re: [mapserver-users] Mapfile Enhancement?]

[Stephen Woodbridge]

This is another good idea that I had also thought of. I might prove
interesting if not problematic for mapserver because of limited color
palette. I though of having a attribute field the contained the hex
encoded RGB color like in HTML color definitions and then have mapserver
render the object in that color. So if I had an attribute field say
"COLOR" that had a value of "FF0000" the object would be rendered in
red.

-Steve

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Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Mapfile Enhancement?
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 14:43:43 -0700
From: "Tyler Mitchell" <TMitchell at lignum.com>
To: Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com>


Hi Stephen, I was wondering if you could do this through attributes in
your
data instead.  I haven't done anything like this (yet) but wondered if
you
have run into problems doing it like this.  I.e. set the colours and
legend
labels using two fields in your data.  Is it even possible for mapserver
to
use those? Hmm...I'll be interested to hear more about what people
think.

Tyler


                                                                                                                          
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Hi all,

In ArcExplorer there is a feature that allows you to assign class breaks
to theme properties based on a numeric field attribute and a color ramp.
Has this be contemplated for 3.6?

I am generating drivetime polygons that are like contour rings and would
like to be able to display each ring as a different color. I also
believe that a few other people have requested a similar feature for
polygons so they could display different polygons as different colors
from the same shape file.

I can work a round it by creating a bunch of class entries.

-Steve