Projection Issues

[Bill Binko]

ACK!

Ok, I don't know whether to kiss or kick you.

It fixed the problem of course.

Ugh

Well, when I'm finished being mortified, I have some other questions :)

Thanks Ed (and Paul)!

Bill

<..slinks back under his rock>



On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Ed McNierney wrote:

> Bill -
>
> You have no CLASS definition to describe the rendering style to be used
> for your "Pinellas Roads" layer.  Add one, similar to the way you did
> for the county outline layer - obviously, there's no OUTLINECOLOR
> needed, and make sure you choose a color that's different than the
> county polygon fill color!
>
>       - Ed
>
> Ed McNierney
> President and Chief Mapmaker
> TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
> 73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
> North Chelmsford, MA  01863
> ed at topozone.com
> (978) 251-4242
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Binko [mailto:bill at binko.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 2:49 PM
> To: Ed McNierney
> Cc: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: RE: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Projection Issues
>
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Ed McNierney wrote:
>
> > Bill -
> >
> > Those all look reasonable - good job!  Those SRID codes are EPSG
> > projection codes, and you can use them directly as:
> >
> > PROJECTION
> >     "init=epsg:26759"
> > END
> >
> > which will save you a lot of typing and some typos!  It also makes it
> > obvious to the reader what projection it is (or at least easy for the
> > reader to look up).
> >
> > Could you post your entire MAP file?  Since your output is in the
> > state plane projection, your EXTENT needs to be specified in that
> > projection and units.  I would recommend that you start with a map
> > file with the county PROJECTION block at the MAP level and one layer
> > with the county data, also with the same PROJECTION block.  Get that
> > working correctly, the add the second layer with the UTM PROJECTION
> block.
> >
>
> Ed,
> I took your advice and and replaced the projections with the espg codes.
>
> I also simplified the map file to just have two layers: both shapefile,
> not PostGIS.  However, I am still having the same problem: I only see
> the county data when I put both in the file.
>
> I've included the reduced map file below, and I've sent a copy of the
> data to Paul to see if he can help.  Is there a standard way to
> distribute layer files for review on this board?  Or should I post a URL
> or the like?
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Bill
>
> MAP
>     NAME SINKHOLE
>     STATUS ON
>     SIZE 800 500
>     IMAGETYPE PNG
>     IMAGECOLOR 240 240  255
>     SHAPEPATH "/var/www/binko.net/maps/data/"
>     UNITS METERS
>       EXTENT 57968.750000 1189453.125000 464218.750000 1443359.375000
>       PROJECTION
>               "init=epsg:26759"
>       END
>     WEB
>         TEMPLATE "/var/www/binko.net/maps/template1.html"
>         IMAGEPATH "/var/www/binko.net/maps/tmp/"
>         IMAGEURL "/maps/tmp/"
>               LOG "/var/www/binko.net/maps/error.log"
>     END
>       SCALEBAR
>               STATUS ON
>               STYLE 1
>                       INTERVALS 4
>                       SIZE 200 2
>                       COLOR 0 0 0
>                       OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
>                       UNITS miles
>                       LABEL
>                               COLOR 0 0 0
>                               SIZE small
>                       END
>               END
>               LAYER
>                       NAME "Pinellas County Outline"
>                       PROJECTION
>                               "init=epsg:26759"
>                       END
>                       TYPE LINE
>                       STATUS DEFAULT
>                       DATA "co_outline0000100104_line"
>                       CLASS
>                               NAME "Pinellas County"
>                               OUTLINECOLOR 60 60 60
>                               COLOR 200 200 200
>                               SYMBOL 0
>                       END
>               END
>               LAYER
>                       NAME "Pinellas Roads"
>                       TYPE LINE
>                       STATUS DEFAULT
>                       PROJECTION
>                               "init=epsg:26917"
>                       END
>                       DATA "localnam"
>                       DEBUG ON
>               END
>
>       END
>
>