SIZEUNITS in Perl Mapscript

Lowell Filak lfilak at MEDINACO.ORG
Mon Feb 21 22:56:13 EST 2005


The following message was sent by Agneta Schick
<schick at SDAC.HANNOVER.BGR.DE> on Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:05:50 +0100.

> > Agneta,
> >
> > Please have a look at the mapfile documentation section for symbolscale.
> > All I meant on the previous post was to add symbolscale not replace
> > anything with it. The symbolscale only acts as an indicator for when a
> > symbol is to be drawn full size and without it the symbols will not
> > scale. You should be able to revert back to your original mapfile and
> > then add symbolscale to see if that has been the problem all along.
> >
>
> Lowell,
>
> Yes, I see I missed putting SYMBOLSCALE in the map file.
>
> Now it's there and I get the right circle size....to a certain extent.
> When zooming in on top map it scales (almost) to the right size.
> (It should circumference a square, but it slowly creeps inside as I zoom
> in)
> But when zooming in further, the circle doesn't scale on the other map
> layers. It retains the size from the last zoom level from the top map
layer.

Agneta,

Could you explain a little further? Are you saying the map has reached a
scale at which the layer that the symbol is tied to nolonger draws but
the label does?

Lowell



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