display polyline as solid fill?

[Dean Gadoury]

Hi, I don't think there's any way you can make MapServer draw linestring 
features as polygons with a fill. If you first convert the line features 
to polygons in a GIS you'll be able use that as a layer with TYPE 
POLYGON and use fills.
Dean

Jeff de La Beaujardiere wrote:
> I downloaded a global coastline shapefile with feature type linestring.
> I can feed it to UMN Mapserver and generate nice maps of the coastline.
> However, I need the option to display the land (or the ocean) as a solid
> color rather than an outline.
> 
> - Is there any way to do a solid fill if the FT is linestring?
> - Would it work if were able to convert the FT to polygon?
> 
> Thanks for any info,
> Jeff DLB
>