[Mapserver-users] Line drawing on Map - Pacific route

[Tyler Mitchell]

Can you show us more about how you are currently going about things?  Do 
you have a mapserver .map file and / or some SQL you could send us?

mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu wrote on 07/05/2004 03:31:27 AM:

> Hi All,
> I am using mapserver to display locations on map and lines between 
> these locations.
> I am looking to get mapserver to draw routes over the pacific ocean.
> Say if i do a route from Los Angeles to Sydney mapserver will draw a
> line over Australia, Indian Ocean, Africa, Atlantic and then across 
America.
> I would prefer the line to go across the pacific i.e the shortest 
> distance between the two locations and not over the rest of the world.
> Example:
> At the moment my map displays the line that way
> Los Angeles ---------------- > ---------------- > Sydney
> I am looking to draw lines that way
> ---------------- >Los Angeles Sydney ---------------- > 
> I am using the latest version of mapserver and all my locations are 
> stored in SQL (long/lat)
> 
> Stéphane NICOLAS
> 
>