randomly assigned COLOR 's?

[Brent Pedersen]

hi, thanks for the replies, since i wanted to keep as a shapefile, i  
just opened it up in open office, added a column, alternated 1..5,  
and added the appropriate classes to my .map file. pretty painless.
-brent


On Apr 21, 2006, at 10:46 AM, Fawcett, David wrote:

> Brent,
>
> Since your countries shapefile likely won't change very often, I would
> go with your fallback solution.
>
> It is always faster to pre-class your data.
>
> David.
>
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> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] randomly assigned COLOR 's?
>
>
> hi,
>
> with a map of the world with country boundaries and
> using only the mapserver CGI, is it possible to have the countries
> filled with one of ~5 different colors. either at random or
> uniformly. is there a way to do this in the mapfile without relying
> on attributes in the shapefile?
>
> my fallback solution will be to add a column in the .shp and assign
> number 1 - 5 to each country and use that in a map file EXPRESSION. i
> thought maybe there was another means i was missing. something like
> an automatic alternating color scheme... to help me do less work.
>
> thanks,
> -brent
>