[Mapserver-users] rotating symbols

[Brent Fraser]

Kevin,

  I don't know of anyone working on this problem.  I did a slight
enhancement to the Mapserver 3.7 code about 6 weeks ago to enable the
outlining of TrueType symbols.  We were also interested in enabling the
rotation of TrueType symbols (just as Labels may be rotated) but had to use
a work-around instead, due to time constraints.

  At the very least it would require the addition of a keyword to the map
file (ANGLEITEM in the LAYER object, or in the CLASS object for even more
control).

  The work-around we used was eight class objects (north, northeast, east,
etc), each assigning a different symbol based on a heading attribute value
in the shapefile.  If the data source is a PostGIS database a better
work-around might be a case clause in the DATA object (see
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/data2/wilma/mapserver-users/0211/msg00299.html)

Brent Fraser
bfraser at geoanalytic.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Flanders" <kevinflanders at rcn.com>
To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 10:52 AM
Subject: [Mapserver-users] rotating symbols


> Will we be able to rotate symbols in the coming 3.7 ?
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> Kevin
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