[mapserver-users] displaying LINESTRING elements from shapefiles

[Adrian Popa]

Hello,

Thanks for the example - I will look into it.

Cheers,
Adrian

Rahkonen Jukka wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This layer shows OSM roads for me from the same shapefiles that you are
> trying to use. 
>
> LAYER
>         NAME "OSM_roads"
>         STATUS ON
>         DATA "d:\Data\OSM\roads"
>         TYPE LINE
>         UNITS METERS
>         METADATA
>           "wms_title"    "OSM_tiet"
>         END
>         CLASS
>         NAME "roads"
>         OUTLINECOLOR 0 255 0
>         END
>         PROJECTION
>           "init=epsg:4326" 
>         END
>   END    
>
> Check that EXTENT in your mapfile suits the data.
>
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
>  
>
> Adrian Popa wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I'm trying to display a map generated from openstreetmaps and 
>> saved as several shapefile layers. The map was obtained from: 
>> http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/
>> The shapefile "roads.shp" has a data type of "LINESTRING":
>>
>> [root at alarms romania-osm-shp]# ogrinfo -al roads.shp | head -30
>> INFO: Open of `roads.shp'
>>       using driver `ESRI Shapefile' successful.
>>
>> Layer name: roads
>> Geometry: Line String
>> Feature Count: 51469
>> Extent: (20.379788, 43.653826) - (29.712869, 48.221387) Layer SRS WKT:
>> GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",
>>     DATUM["WGS_1984",
>>         SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137,298.257223563]],
>>     PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],
>>     UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]]
>> osm_id: Real (16.0)
>> name: String (32.0)
>> type: String (16.0)
>> oneway: Integer (1.0)
>> OGRFeature(roads):0
>>   osm_id (Real) =             1349
>>   name (String) = Bulevardul Mircea Eliade
>>   type (String) = tertiary
>>   oneway (Integer) = 0
>>   LINESTRING (26.093111799999999 44.469673499999999,26.093683899999998
>> 44.469124899999997,26.094064299999999 44.468571799999999,26.0961094
>> 44.465648600000002)
>>
>> I've tried creating the MAP file with a layer type of 
>> LINE/LINESTRING/POLYGON, but the map would not display the 
>> layer (however mapserver would generate an image).
>>
>> My version of mapserver is 4.10.3 (fedora core 8).
>>
>> My question is: can I display this data type directly with 
>> mapserver, or do I need to convert it to something else? Is 
>> my version of mapserver too old to display this data?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Adrian
>>
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>
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