workshop error

R. Paul Warriner paul at WARRINER.US
Thu Nov 4 18:41:49 EST 2004


Ethan,

Spoke to soon, the Map works now, but
that took out the annotation for the
cities.

I removed the 1st name instance:
NAME mcd90py2_anno
and city names are back.

Not sure yet what else that may effect?

Paul

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 18:29:55 -0500
>From: "R. Paul Warriner"
<paul at warriner.us>
>Subject: RE: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS]
workshop error
>To: Ethan Alpert
<ealpert at digitalglobe.com>,
MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>Cc: "R. Paul Warriner" <paul at WARRINER.US>
>
>Hello Ethan,
>
>Interesting, keeping in mind I am
>novice, I commented out the second NAME
>instance, and voila; it worked.
>
>Funny, 4.2 didn't care, but 4.4 does.
>
>It is the workshop - itasca.map file,
>with the 3rd line "NAME cities":
>  LAYER
>    NAME mcd90py2_anno
>    NAME cities
>    TYPE ANNOTATION
>    DATA mcd90py2
>    STATUS OFF
>    LABELITEM "city_name"
>    CLASSITEM "city_name"
>    LABELMAXSCALE 500000
>    CLASS
>      EXPRESSION /./
>      LABEL
>        COLOR 0 0 0
>        SHADOWCOLOR 218 218 218
>        SHADOWSIZE 2 2
>        TYPE BITMAP
>        SIZE MEDIUM
>        POSITION CC
>        PARTIALS FALSE
>        BUFFER 2
>      END
>    END
>
>Thanks for the help,
>Paul
>
>---- Original message ----
>>Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 15:32:12 -0700
>>From: "Ethan Alpert"
><ealpert at digitalglobe.com>
>>Subject: RE: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS]
>workshop error
>>To: "R. Paul Warriner" <paul at WARRINER.US>
>>
>>What's on line 446 of your mapfile?
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: UMN MapServer Users List
>[mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
>>Behalf Of R. Paul Warriner
>>Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 1:24 PM
>>To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>>Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS]
>workshop error
>>
>>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I am a new user, and I am also getting
>the same error with 4.4.0beta1:
>>getString(): Symbol definition error.
>Duplicate item (NAME):(line 446)
>>
>>The data has not been modified, and is
>working under 4.2.5
>>
>>Regards,
>>Paul
>>
>>
>>On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:11:01 +0100,
>Norman Barker
>><normanb at COMSINE.CO.UK>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I expect it is me, but I have compiled
>the nightly build of MapServer
>>>and everything works.
>>>
>>>I have installed the WorkShop with the
>Itasca data to test the
>>>installation of MapServer but I get
>>>
>>>getString(): Symbol definition error.
>Duplicate item (NAME):(line 446)
>>>
>>>when I click on the Basic Application
>option
>>>
>>>Any help would be great
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Norman



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