Offset a line?

[Pete Deffendol]

Pete Deffendol wrote:
> I'm trying to draw a line layer such that it is offset some amount of 
> pixels from its actual location.  The intent is to draw a dashed line 
> next to (not atop) a road.  From the documentation, it appears that 
> using OFFSET in the STYLE block will work, but it's not having any 
> affect on the output.  Here's the relevant section of my mapfile:

Let me be more specific.  I'm using AGG rendering as well.  If I turn it 
off, then the offset appears to work, although it's really ugly and 
doesn't look the way I want.  (The offset line doesn't just look like a 
mirror of the original line that has been shifted over - it has a few 
"anomalies" that shift a different direction.)

So - any other ideas on how I can achieve what I want? (see above quoted 
message.)

Pete

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Pete Deffendol
Software Engineer
Multimedia Data Services Corp.
pete at mdsc.com