Help with PostGIS and POINT layer, please

[Paul Ramsey]

There are some interop problems with the last postgis 'rc' releases and
mapserver. See if the current cvs snapshot works better for you. A new
rc should be out shortly, hopefully your problem is gone in the cvs
version of postgis.

Paul

On 23-Feb-05, at 6:57 AM, Marco Marsella wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I am going crazy about a simple (or so I thought...) POINT layer. The
> map file fragment is as follows:
>
>        LAYER
>                NAME "acstats"
>                TYPE POINT
>                STATUS DEFAULT
>                CONNECTIONTYPE POSTGIS
>                CONNECTION "user=guest password=guest dbname=asiacover
> host=localhost
> port=5432"
>                DATA "the_geom from asiacover.stations"
>                CLASS
>                        OUTLINECOLOR 255 0 0
>                        COLOR 10 10 10
>                        SYMBOL 'circle'
>                        SIZE 10
>                END
>                PROJECTION "init=epsg:4326" END
>        EXTENT 41.82 -20.15 100.4 22.85
>        END
>
>        SYMBOL
>                NAME 'circle'
>                TYPE ELLIPSE
>                POINTS 1 1 END
>                FILLED TRUE
>        END
>
> The query is executed and 55 points are returned (I tried it manually
> copying from the Postgres log) but nothing gets drawn on the map. The
> table content, exported as a shapefile, draws nicely with the same
> CLASS. But I cannot find any way to make those 55 points show up on my
> map!
>
> I must be missing something obvious, please help!
>
> TIA
>
> Marco