[Mapserver-users] Funny Scalings

[Ed McNierney]

Matthew -

Your mapfile says:

EXTENT 110 -40 155 -15
UNITS meters

and I don't think your map area is really 45 meters by 25 meters!  If the EXTENT is correct, it looks like your data is in Decimal Degrees, for which you should use UNITS DD instead.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
North Chelmsford, MA  01863
ed at topozone.com
(978) 251-4242 

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Smith [mailto:matt at kbc.net.au]
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 1:51 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: [Mapserver-users] Funny Scalings


Hi All

I am experiencing some weirdness with Mapserver 3.6.6 running on Linux 
(kernel 2.4.19, SuSE distribution).

All scales appear to be out by a factor of 10,000.  I have had to set 
MAXSCALE and MINSCALE with far fewer zeroes at the end than I would have 
thought to get the desired effect

Moving the decimal point wouldn't be any great problem for me if I 
weren't using the scalebar which is out by the same factor.

An abbreviated version of my mapfile is shown below.  Unforutnately I 
don't have Mapserver running on my production server, so the whole 
system isn'a available on the WWW for inspection.

Suggestions anyone?

Cheers

Matthew Smith


NAME SA
STATUS ON
SIZE 400 400
EXTENT 110 -40 155 -15
UNITS meters
SHAPEPATH "data"
IMAGECOLOR 128 128 255

IMAGETYPE PNG

SYMBOL
   NAME 'circle'
   TYPE ELLIPSE
   POINTS 1 1 END
   FILLED TRUE
END

WEB
   HEADER sa.html
   TEMPLATE sa.html
   FOOTER sa.html
   MINSCALE 2.5
   MAXSCALE 320
END

QUERYMAP
   SIZE 400 400
   STATUS ON
   STYLE HILITE
   COLOR 255 0 0
END

#
# Start of scalebar
#
SCALEBAR
   IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
   LABEL
     COLOR 255 255 255
     SIZE LARGE
   END
   STYLE 1
   SIZE 80 2
   COLOR 255 255 255
   UNITS meters
   INTERVALS 1
   TRANSPARENT TRUE
   STATUS TRUE
END


#
# Matthew's Layers
#
LAYER
	NAME "sea"
	DATA oceansea
	STATUS DEFAULT
	TYPE POLYGON
		CLASS
			COLOR 128 128 255
		END
END

LAYER	NAME "states"
	DATA LocAust
	STATUS DEFAULT
	TYPE POLYGON
	CLASSITEM "STATE"
		CLASS
			name "SOUTH AUSTRALIA"
			expression "SOUTH AUSTRALIA"
			color 200 200 200
			#color 255 255 192
			outlinecolor 0 0 0
		END
		CLASS
			expression /./
			color 255 132 12
			outlinecolor 0 0 0
		END
END


LAYER
	NAME "lga"
	DATA LGA
	STATUS DEFAULT
	TYPE POLYGON
	CLASSITEM "NAME"
		CLASS
			EXPRESSION /./
			COLOR 255 255 192
			OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
		END
END


LAYER
	NAME roads
	TYPE LINE
	DATA roadl
	STATUS default
	maxscale 5
	CLASS
		COLOR 255 0 0
	END
END

LAYER
	NAME "locs"
	TYPE POINT
	DATA sa
	STATUS DEFAULT
	maxscale 30
	CLASS
		SYMBOL 'circle'
		SIZE 4
		NAME 'Localities'
		OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
	END
END	



LAYER
	NAME "locnames"
	TYPE ANNOTATION
	Data sa
	STATUS DEFAULT
	LABELITEM "locn"
	CLASSITEM "locn"
	maxscale 15
	CLASS
		EXPRESSION "Kadina"
		COLOR -1 -1 -1
		LABEL
			COLOR 0 0 0
			SIZE MEDIUM
		END
	END
		CLASS
		EXPRESSION "Mintaro"
		COLOR -1 -1 -1
		LABEL
			COLOR 0 0 0
			SIZE MEDIUM
		END
	END
	CLASS
		EXPRESSION "Tarlee"
		COLOR -1 -1 -1
		LABEL
			COLOR 0 0 0
			SIZE MEDIUM
		END
	END
	CLASS
		EXPRESSION "Mallala"
		COLOR -1 -1 -1
		LABEL
			COLOR 0 0 0
			SIZE MEDIUM
		END
	END

END	

# End of file
END

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