issue with classitem and tileindex...

[John Cole]

Brent,
  Well, I didn't know about the 'newer' method.  I got it working similar to
the 'old' one but it still doesn't recognize the 'CFCC' column when I add
the class item.

Thanks,

John


Brent Fraser wrote:
> 
> John,
> 
>   You could try the newer (and more flexible?) "two-layer"
> style of tileindex specification:
> 
> LAYER
>  NAME "lpy_idx_lyr"
>  TYPE TILEINDEX
>  DATA "lpy_idx"
> END
> 
> 
> LAYER
>  NAME "landmark_polys"
>  GROUP "bound"
>  TILEINDEX "lpy_idx_lyr"  # this points to the above layer
>  METADATA
>      "wms_title" "landmark_polys"
>      "wms_group_title" "landmark"
>  END
>  PROJECTION
>  "init=epsg:4326"
>  END
>  STATUS ON
>  CLASSITEM "CFCC"
>  CLASS
>    EXPRESSION "D82"
>    NAME 'Cemetary'
>    MAXSCALE 250000
>    STYLE
>      COLOR 209 208 204
>    END
>  END
> END
> 
> I haven't tested this, so it may not work.  The trick is to
> tell Mapserver the CLASS is to be applied to the files
> pointed to by the tileindex, not the tile index itself (I'm
> sure it doesn't have an attributed named "CFCC").
> 
> Steve Woodbridge may have some insight into this, since it's
> tiled vectors; I've only done tiled raster....
> 
> Brent Fraser
> GeoAnalytic Inc.
> Calgary, Alberta
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Cole" <john.cole at UAI.COM>
> To: <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 2:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] issue with classitem and
> tileindex...
> 
> 
>> Steve,
>>   Thanks for the quick reply, unfortunately I had already
> tried that :-(
>>
>> msDBFGetItemIndex(): DBASE file error. Item 'CFCC' not
> found.
>>
>> Is there anything else that could be wrong?
>>
>> Here is my layer:
>>
>> LAYER
>> NAME "landmark_polys"
>> GROUP "bound"
>> TILEINDEX "lpy_idx"
>>         METADATA
>> "wms_title" "landmark_polys"
>> "wms_group_title" "landmark"
>> END
>> PROJECTION
>> "init=epsg:4326"
>> END
>> STATUS ON
>> CLASSITEM "CFCC"
>> TYPE POLYGON
>>
>> CLASS
>> EXPRESSION "D82"
>> NAME 'Cemetary'
>> MAXSCALE 250000
>> STYLE
>> COLOR 209 208 204
>> END
>> END
>> END
>>
>> We are using the current version of MS4W.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>> >
>> > John,
>> >
>> > In shapefiles attribute are all upper case. try:
>> >     classitem 'CFCC'
>> >
>> > -Steve W
>> >
>> > John Cole wrote:
>> >> I have a couple of county shapefiles where I've created
> a tileindex using
>> >> tile4ms.  When I render these with MS, things work fine
> until I set the
>> >> classitem, and then it can't find the classitem column
> on the shapefile
>> >> (in
>> >> this case 'cfcc').
>> >>
>> >> Is there something special you have to do to use a
> class item or label
>> >> item
>> >> with a tileindex?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> John
>> >
>> >
>>
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