[Mapserver-users] avl and mapserver

[Chip Hankley]

It kind of does...

If you have the shapefiles added to a View in AV, you can choose the 'create map file only' option from Ross's extension, and it will create a mapfile based on the color schemes you have set for the various themes. So, if you first set the colors, etc, via the AVL, then run Russ's utility, the resulting map file will have the correct colors.

HOWEVER, last I checked, it used some syntax from a few versions back (like it makes LINE themes (AV syntax) into TYPE POLYLINE in the mapfile... which, I believe, is no longer supported). So, there's some post-processing that has to go on. Also, it won't handle any complex display definitions in AV... like cross-hatching.

It is VERY handy for getting things to come over from AV w/ the same look-and-feel... but you really need to have an understanding of Mapfile syntax to go in and tweak things afterwards.

Chip

>>> Tyler Mitchell <TMitchell at lignum.com> 08/18/03 12:45PM >>>
Does anyone know if Ross Searle's ArcView utility
(http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/user_utilities/maputils.ZIP) does what Alvaro
is after?

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