[mapserver-users] attribute bindings for SYMBOL and FONT?

[Dan Little]

http://research.dmsolutions.ca/?p=118

This would indicate the answer is yes.


----- Original Message ----
> From: Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com>
> To: "mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org" <mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org>
> Sent: Fri, December 18, 2009 11:05:28 AM
> Subject: [mapserver-users] attribute bindings for SYMBOL and FONT?
> 
> The short story:
> ----------------
>   Is it possible to bind a CLASS's SYMBOL object to an attribute (i.e store the 
> symbol name as a attribute of a feature)?  And the LABEL objects FONT name?
> 
> The Long Story:
> ---------------
> I've been working with the yet-to-be-released Feature Editor in Geomoose v2. It 
> allows the user to digitize features (points, lines, and polygons) and assign 
> attributes, then stores them in PostGIS.
> 
> I want to allow simple styling and don't want to have a map file the size of 
> "War and Peace", so I thought I would use the attribute/item/column binding 
> abilities of Mapserver's CLASS and LABEL objects.
> 
> To that end, one of the columns the feature table will be "style name" (or maybe 
> "feature class"), which I'll use to join to a style table (with COLOR, WIDTH, 
> etc columns) to get the feature rendered in a simple style.
> 
> After a quick review of Mapserver's doc, most of the most important objects can 
> be bound to attributes, with two exceptions, SYMBOL 'name' and FONT 'name':
> 
> CLASS
>   STYLE
>     ANGLE [angle]
>     COLOR [color]  #R G B
>     OUTLINECOLOR [olcolor] #R G B
>     SIZE [size]
>     WIDTH [width]  # v5.2
> 
>     SYMBOL 'name' # in SYMBOLSET
> 
>   END #STYLE
> 
>   TEXT ([label])
>   LABEL
>     ANGLE  [label_angle]
>     COLOR [label_color]
>     OUTLINECOLOR [label_olcolor]
>     PRIORITY [label_priority]
>     SIZE [label_size]
> 
>     FONT 'name' # in FONTSET
>     
>   END #LABEL
> END # CLASS
> 
> How difficult would it be to have attribute binding for SYMBOL and FONT?  I 
> suppose I could use mapscript, but I'd rather not.
> 
> Thanks!
> Brent Fraser
> 
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