[mapserver-users] Transparent territory radius

[Puneet Kishor]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin, Daniel [mailto:DMartin at erac.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 5:17 PM
> To: 'Puneet Kishor'; mapserver-users
> Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Transparent territory radius
> 
> 
> I needed the shape to be generated from MapServer using a 
> POINT layer.  If
> you define the a POINT symbol as a diagonalfill of 60 
> kilometers, you get
> one giant diagonalfill rather than a circle in a diagonalfill pattern.

I am sorry, but perhaps I should have elaborated further. You could still
use the point from your POINT layer, generate your buffer circle and add it
to an acetate layer, then use a circle polygon symbol with a diagonalfill
pattern. That way, the fill would be on a poly.

In any case...
> 
> However as Steve points out, the TRANSPARENCY feature of the 
> LAYER object
> added in 3.6 works brilliantly.  I've already redesigned several other
> things using this feature too.
> 


seems like you solved it. ;-)

pk/




> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Puneet Kishor [mailto:pkishor at geoanalytics.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 4:59 PM
> To: Martin, Daniel; mapserver-users
> Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Transparent territory radius
> 
> 
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> Is there a reason you have to do it this way? How about just 
> creating a
> circle shape and filling it with a diagonalfill?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin, Daniel [mailto:DMartin at erac.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 3:24 PM
> To: mapserver-users
> Subject: [mapserver-users] Transparent territory radius
> 
> 
> Sorry for the HTML format if you cannot handle it.  It's the 
> easiest way to
> get my point across. I am trying to create 30 kilometer 
> radius territory
> rings that are transparent.  I succeeded, but not in the way 
> I want.  I
> created a PIXMAP symbol that (when blown up) looks like this:
> [..]
>