Display Lines as Points

[Steve Lime]

MapServer itself cannot selectively display just one point from a feature. Perhaps there
is a Oracle function to do the extraction on the database side? PostGIS users might have
an idea that could be translated into Oracle.

Steve

>>> On 3/14/2007 at 10:17 AM, in message
<D12153701D57FF45A1AD64DFB6571D7C0157A5C4 at svie0107.vie01.local>, "Pleyer,
Walter" <Walter.Pleyer at LFRZ.AT> wrote:
> Hi Folks!
> 
> We have a rather tricky problem and maybe someone out there knows a
> solution.
> We have a layer of  rivers, divided in 500m Segments, stored in an
> Oracle Spatial DB.
> Each segment is a simple line with a starting point and an end point,
> but they shall not be displayed a slines, but rather as points.
> What we want is simnply to represent every segment by its starting point
> only.
> Is that possible?
> 
> Walter
> 
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