Symbology Questions

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On further investigation, it looks like the fill on the truetype symbol 
is white but the symbol is drawn in black, the requested color. The 
layer looks like:


   #  Building
   LAYER
     NAME "buildin_p"
     GROUP "CO"
     STATUS DEFAULT
     MAXSCALE 100100
     TILEINDEX "tindex-50k"
     DATA "buildin_p"
     TYPE POINT
     CLASSITEM "ATC"
     CLASS
       ...
     END
     ...
     CLASS
       EXPRESSION "177" # Industrial building
       STYLE
         SYMBOL "building"
         SIZE 15
         ANGLEITEM "ANGLE"
         COLOR 0 0 0
       END
     END
   END

-Steve

Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have some question on symbology that are not address by the current 
> documentation. I'm using mapserver 4.10.1
> 
> 1) I have truetype font with symbols in it. Some of the symbols I can 
> trying to use show nicely in Windows Character Map as a solid filled 
> pictograph, but when I create a mapserver symbol it is just an outline.
> 
> SYMBOL
>   NAME "building"
>   TYPE TRUETYPE
>   FONT "cartogra"
>   CHARACTER "F"
>   FILLED TRUE
> END
> 
> 2) I need to make a dashed line with some additional symbols along it, 
> like:
> 
> ----(.)----  ----  ----  ----(.)----  ----
> 
> Where the (.) is a circle with a dot. I have a truetype symbol for the 
> (.), but the (.) needs to fall in what would otherwise be a gap. So I am 
> trying something like this:
> 
> SYMBOL
>   NAME "a_cable_dot"
>   TYPE TRUETYPE
>   FONT "cartogra"
>   CHARACTER "J"
>   GAP 100
> END
> 
> SYMBOL
>   NAME "a_cable_dash"
>   TYPE ELLIPSE
>   POINTS 1 1 END
>   FILLED TRUE
>   STYLE 0 5 20 5 20 5 20 5 20 END
> END
> 
> then overlaying the two of these with two styles.
> Is there a better way of doing this?
> How can I control the placement of the circle-dot.
> 
> Thanks,
>   -Steve W