Showing Movement Direction

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Ben,

This is the same problem of displaying GPS tracks. They explicitly a set 
of points, but when taken as a track over time they are a polyline. You 
can not do anything with mapserver directly. You do have a few options:

1) write a script that adds heading column to each point, based on the 
previous point and use this angle to orient a marker for the point.
2) load the data into postGIS and convert the points to a polyline and 
either display it from postGIS or dump it back to a shapefile.
3) use postGIS to compute the heading column
4) other similar preprocess the data options

try search for "gps track" in both mapserver archives and postgis archives.

-Steve W

Ben Madin wrote:
> G'day all,
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> I have been looking and reading, but I'm not sure I'm looking for the 
> right thing.
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> I have a number of points from satellite based tracking, giving me a 
> list of longitude, latitude and a timestamp. These are fairly regular, 
> and although I can display the points on the map window and see where 
> animals have moved to, I can't tell which way they moved just by 
> looking. We vets need to know what came first...
> 
> So I thought I could convert adjacent points (temporally) into line 
> segments, (earliest point first, latter point last), but I can't find 
> anywhere in Mapserver that seem to explicitly explain how to do this (or 
> whether it can be done). 
> 
> Can anyone either :
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> direct me to the right place, or 
> give me a set of keywords which might get me to the right place, or
> advise me to give up for now?
> 
> cheers
> 
> Ben
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