Polygon clockwies counter clockwies repair

[Steve Lime]

Nope, MapServer does not enforce coordinate order when writing shapes.

Steve

>>> "Aaron D. Hunt" <hunt at ZEDXINC.COM> 2/18/2005 1:24:45 PM >>>
The files we make will display fine in mapserver, but some out
programs
we run into do not hand it very well. We use mapscript to wright out
the
shapefile, sould it be taken care of on save?

Aaron D. Hunt


Frank Warmerdam wrote:

>On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:06:40 -0500, Aaron D. Hunt <hunt at zedxinc.com>
wrote:
>
>
>>Are there any linux programs of code examples on how to fix a shape
file
>>that has polygons and anti polygons so that the clockwise and
counter
>>clockwise is correct.
>>
>>
>
>Aaron,
>
>I *think* that OGR will try and sort that all out if you copy a
shapefile
>with ogr2ogr.  If not, I would be interested in fixing it.   Give it a
try
>and let me know (with details) if you still see problems.
>
>Best regards,
>
>