[mapserver-users] MapServer GRID object.

[Jeff McKenna]

I'll be doing some documentation updates soon so if you find anything 
undocumented please file a ticket for it in MapServer's trac instance 
(http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/), using the "MapServer Documentation" 
component.

-jeff



Brent Fraser wrote:
> Bob,
> 
>   For spherical unit (Degrees-minutes-seconds) labels you
> could use:
> 
> LABELFORMAT "DDMMSS"
> 
>   or for cartesian units (e.g. meters) an un-documented
> feature(!) of any C-style formatting string:
> 
> LABELFORMAT "%7.0f m"
> 
> Brent Fraser
> GeoAnalytic Inc.
> Calgary, Alberta
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Basques" <Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us>
> To: "Brent Fraser" <bfraser at geoanalytic.com>;
> <mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 11:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] MapServer GRID object.
> 
> 
> Oops, yup, you're right. LABELFORMAT.  Anyway, how to I get
> rid of the Scientific notation for the labels?  There
> doesn't seem to be a method for this.
> 
> bobb
> 
> 
> 
>>>> "Brent Fraser" <bfraser at geoanalytic.com> wrote:
> Bob,
> 
>   I take it you mean LABELFORMAT (not FORMATOPTION)?  From
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/mapfile/grid:
> 
> LABELFORMAT [DD|DDMM|DDMMSS]
> Format of the label. "DD" for degrees, "DDMM" for degrees
> minutes, and "DDMMSS" for degrees, minutes, seconds. The
> default is decimal display of whatever SRS you're rendering
> the GRID with.
> 
> Brent Fraser
> GeoAnalytic Inc.
> Calgary, Alberta
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Basques" <Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us>
> To: <mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:18 AM
> Subject: [mapserver-users] MapServer GRID object.
> 
> 
> All,
> 
> I got the GRID object to work and display in this interface:
> 
> http://gis.ci.stpaul.mn.us/gis/gismo_public/html/?mapbook=/datasets/CONFIGS/SAINT_PAUL/PUBLIC_WORKS/MAPBOOKS/TS/gismo3_test_public.xml
> 
> I still need to know more info about the function though, is
> FORMATOPTION the only method of changing the labeling?  I
> would like to get rid of the Scientific notaion that it uses
> by default and use LAT/LON instead.
> 
> Specifically I'm trying to get it to label using the US
> National Grid.  Anyone had any experience with this?  I have
> a couple of other experimental layers in the interface
> referenced above that are sourced with Polygons,and Polyline
> SHP files as well as via the MapServer Grid Object.  Im
> shooting for the GRID labeling method as the preferred
> output at this point.
> 
> Thanks for any pointers.
> 
> bobb
> 
> 
> 
>