Problem with Perl script and image maps

[Lowell Filak]

The following message was sent by Robert Parsons
<rparsons at TAPPUBLISHING.COM> on Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:38:01 -0500.

> Can anyone offer any insight for this problem? I get "Segmentation Fault" 
> any time I attempt to call $map->draw() for any map that is set to output 
> via the "imagemap" driver. It's quite easy for me to reproduce and it
even 
> happens when simply opening a .map file from within a perl script. For 
> example, this simple script throw a Seg Fault during the draw().
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> use mapscript;
> 
> my $msmap = mapscript::mapObj->new('test.map');
> my $image=$msmap->draw();
> $image->save('test');
> 
> 
> Here's the test.map file:
> 
> MAP
>    EXTENT -14023070.10627 1859777.927636 -7135266.299414 7255753.260196
>    IMAGECOLOR 0 0 0
>    IMAGETYPE imagemap
>    SHAPEPATH "/wxhub/common/shapefiles"
>    SIZE 868 680
>    STATUS ON
>    UNITS METERS
>    NAME "TEST"
> 
>    OUTPUTFORMAT
>      NAME "imagemap"
>      MIMETYPE "text/html"
>      DRIVER "imagemap"
>    END
> 
>    PROJECTION
>      "proj=merc"
>      "lat_0=0"
>      "lon_0=0"
>      "datum=WGS84"
>    END
> 
>    WEB
>      IMAGEPATH ""
>      IMAGEURL ""
>        METADATA
>        END
>      QUERYFORMAT text/html
>    END
> 
>    LAYER
>      DATA "statesp020"
>        METADATA
>        END
>      NAME "mylayer"
>      PROJECTION
>        "proj=latlong"
>      END
>      SIZEUNITS PIXELS
>      STATUS ON
>      TOLERANCEUNITS PIXELS
>      TYPE POLYGON
>      UNITS METERS
>      CLASS
>        METADATA
>        END
>        STYLE
>          ANGLE 360
>            COLOR 255 255 255
>          SIZE 1
>          SYMBOL 0
>        END
>      END
>    END
> 
> END
> 
> 
> The same code will work fine if I change the .map file to output to a GIF 
> instead of an imagemap.

Robert,

There appears to be something wrong with the mapfile. Running shp2img on
the mapfile produces the same error (for imagemap)/success (for gif).
At this point I'm not sure what the mapfile requires (particularly in
the 'style' section) where the 'imagemap' seems to be blowing up.

Lowell