[mapserver-users] rotation of vector symbol

[Alberto Poggi]

Ok, thanks, at least I know that is not my mistake.
You know a way to solve the problem?

2008/9/17 thomas bonfort <thomas.bonfort at gmail.com>:
> it's a known problem
> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2671
>
> cheers,
> thomas
>
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Alberto Poggi <albpoggi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi.
>> Let me tell you about an issue of rotation of the vector symbols. I
>> found that in mapserver the rotation of these symbols does not follow
>> the classic rules that provide for the starting rotation in sequence
>> from east to the north, west and south. I published my work with
>> PMAPPER and MAPSERVER and I noticed that the rotation is done on the
>> other hand (east, south, west and north), and only on symbols of a
>> vector. This problem on the labelling does not exist and the rotation
>> is correct.
>> The layer referenced for symbol is a postgis table that contains a
>> field "rotazione" used by MapServer for the rotation of symbols. The
>> display of symbols is right but the rotation is done wrong.
>> This is the definition of my symbol:
>> SYMBOL
>>  NAME "valvola"
>>  TYPE vector
>>  POINTS
>>    0 0
>>    1.5 1
>>    1.5 0
>>    0 1
>>    0 0
>>  END
>>  FILLED TRUE
>> END
>>  and this is the notation in the mapfile:
>> LAYER
>>  NAME "Valvole"
>>  TYPE POINT
>>  CONNECTIONTYPE postgis
>>  CONNECTION "user=****** password=***** dbname=ACQUA host=localhost"
>>  DATA "the_geom FROM valvole"
>>  STATUS DEFAULT
>>  MAXSCALE 5001
>>  TOLERANCE 10
>>  TOLERANCEUNITS pixels
>>  PROJECTION
>>    "init=epsg:32632"
>>  END
>>
>>  METADATA
>>    "DESCRIPTION" "Valvole"
>>    "RESULT_FIELDS" "comune,localita"
>>    "RESULT_HEADERS" "Comune,Località"
>>    "LAYER_ENCODING" "UTF-8"
>>    "ows_title"      "Dati valvole"
>>  END  # Metadata
>>
>>  CLASS
>>        NAME   "Valvole"
>>
>>        STYLE
>>        SYMBOL 'valvola'
>>        COLOR   0 255 255
>>        OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
>>        ANGLE [rotazione]
>>        SIZE 8
>>        END
>>  END
>>  TEMPLATE void
>> END
>>
>> It's me that something wrong or is a known problem? Thank you.
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