[mapserver-users] highlighting a route

[Richard Greenwood]

At 10:46 AM 11/23/2002 -0800, you wrote:

>Greetings Listers,
>     I would like to improve our routing page by using a highlight
>(semi-transparent) line for the route path.  I am presently drawing
>the line using an ellipse symbol to insure it is thick enough to see.
>Is there a way to do this without a solid fill so I can see a hint of
>the underlying image?

Sounds like maybe another application for a buffer. Can you represent your 
routes as polygons instead of lines? i.e. each polyline a 100 ft wide 
polygon instead of an actual line, and then you could use a fine-grained 
hatch to fill the narrow polygon.

Rich

Richard W. Greenwood, PLS
(307) 733-0203
Rich at GreenwoodMap.com
www.GreenwoodMap.com