[Mapserver-users] Display point layer with symbols

[Michael Schulz]

Hi Stefan,

you have to create a symbol definition for each gif-symbol you need. Do 
this in your symbolset defintion file. Add something like:

SYMBOL
   NAME 'gold'
   TYPE pixmap
   IMAGE 'gold.gif'
   TRANSPARENT 5 # The index of the transparency color
END

In your map-file, create a class for each ressource (use the class 
expression to define the set of points that belong to one class based on 
an attribute of the underlying dataset) and in the class symbol use the 
name of your gif-symbol, e.g.: SYMBOL "gold" .

Cheers, Michael


Stefan Schwarzer schrieb:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am sure this is an easy question and has been raised already. But I 
> haven't found any explanations in the archives. So perhaps someone could 
> rapidly give me an advice:
> 
> I don't want to display the points in a point-layer but gif-symbols 
> instead, representing for example Gold, Diamonds, Uranium etc.
> 
> How do I achieve that?
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Stefan
> 
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