[mapserver-users] Display road layer realistically

[Adrian Popa]

Hello everybody,

I have to draw a fiber-optic layer that can be interpreted like a road 
layer (polyline data type). I've drawn it in simple ways (colored 
lines), but now it must look more professional... I would like some tips 
on how to draw this/color schemes to make it look better.

LAYER                      
    NAME fibraProblems     
    TYPE LINE              
    STATUS off             
    DATA fibra             
    CLASSITEM "nume"       
    LABELITEM "nume"       
    CLASS                  
       Name "Selected"     
       EXPRESSION /selected/
       STYLE               
          COLOR 255 0 0    
          WIDTH 4          
       END                 
       LABEL               
            COLOR 0 0 255  
            TYPE TRUETYPE  
            FONT arial     
            SIZE 8         
            ANTIALIAS TRUE 
            POSITION AUTO  
            PARTIALS TRUE  
            MINDISTANCE 0  
            BUFFER 0       
    #       PRIORITY 5     
       END                 
   END                     
END                        



Also, on some parts of the fiber, there are multiple fibers going the 
same way... I would like to represent them like in this subway map: 
http://www.frenchculture.com/images/metro_map.gif, meaning adjacent 
fibers should apear next to each-other. Any idea if this can be done 
with mapserver?

Thank you,
Adrian