Draw circle

[Steve Lime]

There is also a CIRCLE layer type. You can construct a shapefile of
simple lines, 2 points per line. Where the points represent the bounding
box for the circle (this works with inline features too). The LAYER
might look like:

LAYER
  NAME 'circles'
  TYPE CIRCLE
  DATA '/usr/local/data/circles'
  ...
END

Steve

>>> Jeff Portwine <jdport at VERITIME.COM> 2/2/2005 10:24:37 AM >>>

Put something like this in your map file.    The numbers in the
"points" section refer to the diameter in the X direction and the
diameter in the Y direction.   If the numbers are the same you get a
circle, otherwise you will get an ellipse.

SYMBOL
    NAME "circle"
    TYPE ellipse
    FILLED true
    POINTS
      12 12
    END
 END

-Jeff

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Jose Luis Gonzalez
  To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
  Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 11:02 AM
  Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Draw circle


  Is there any easy way to draw a circle on a map without having to
make it your self by drawing small lines?

  thank you

  Jose Luis