Using Attributes

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Ken or Bob,

This sounds like a reasonable feature request. You should write an
enhancement request bug in bugzilla.

-Steve

Ken Lord wrote:
> Hi Bob,
>
> Unless things have changed in the last year, you can't do it the way
> you want to with shapefiles.  ... I do hope things have changed.
>
> One way to get around it, if you have access to using MapInfo is to
> create a MapInfo table containing the data you want to display,
> colouring the features using a colour table with Mapinfo.
>
> Then use an OGR connection to display the MapInfo table as a layer in
> MapServer and set a STYLEITEM to "AUTO" within the layer definition.
>
> I've done this with regional scale geology polygons over canada, so
> that I could be sure the polygons were being coloured using the
> standard Geological Survey of Canada colours.  If I had used a
> shapefile and coloured the polygons by classes, there would have been
> too many classes within the layer for MapServer to handle ... and it
> would have taken an unreasonable effort to make all those classes.
>
> In my example it did still take some effort to colour the features in
> MapInfo by a colour table given the large dataset. But the end result
> has been good.
>
> Cheers,
> Ken Lord
> Vancouver BC
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:46:17 -0600, Bob Basques
> <bob.basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote:
>
>>All,
>>
>>I have a SHP file with a "COLOR" column in it with a RGB value (255 255
>>255).
>>
>>How do I use this in the MAPFILE as a COLOR value?
>>
>>I've been looking on and off all day in the Wiki, I've come to the
>>conclusion that I'm not using the correct Search term.  Does anyone have
>>an example of how to use the column attribute value as the color value
>>in the MAPFILE?
>>
>>LAYER
>> NAME 'cities'
>> DATA '<path to data>'
>> STATUS DEFAULT
>> CLASSITEM 'MUNI_NAME'
>> CLASS
>>   OUTLINECOLOR 207 50 150
>>   COLOR '<value of muni_name column above>'
>>   SIZE 2
>>   SYMBOL 'circle'
>> END
>>END
>>
>>I think I'm having a brain freeze or something . . . . . mutter, mutter
>>. . . .
>>
>>bobb
>>
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