Curious Symbol Structure

[Eduardo Zenaide]

a good link - i've found it yesterday :D

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/cartosymbols/#using-cartographic-symbols-in-umn-mapserver

2006/12/27, Steve Lime <Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us>:
>
> The type refers to the base type of the brush or marker you are creating
> not
> to the type of feature it is useful for. It's true in this case that
> with the addition
> of the style that this symbol is only really useful for lines, but you
> could draw
> markers with it or fill polygons in which case the dashing would be
> ignored.
>
> I think ideally we should pull the style, better called a pattern, out
> into the
> class style. That would eliminate this type of confusion...
>
> Steve
>
> >>> Bill Thoen <bthoen at GISNET.COM> 12/26/2006 7:42:59 PM >>>
> I'm trying to learn the MapServer lore and now I'm focusing on symbols.
> Can
> anyone tell me what the logic is where one is defining a _line_ style
> by
> using a TYPE of ELLIPSE (instead of LINE) and POINTS definition of one
> (x
> y) as in the symbol definition below? (This is from
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/symbology/examples).
>
> SYMBOL
>   NAME 'dashed1'
>   TYPE ELLIPSE
>   POINTS 1 1 END
>   FILLED true
>   STYLE 10 5 5 10 END
> END
>
> I'm just curious. This seems like some historical artifact from the
> days
> when learning MapServer was hard. ;-)
>
> The TYPE ELLIPSE seems especially weird to me. Why not TYPE LINE?
>
> - Bill Thoen
>



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Eduardo Zenaide
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