[mapserver-users] Help with symbol layer

[Bob Basques]

Oh, well, that's slight different, you want to scale an image/symbol, to fit (once) in a closed polygon, right? 

That's harder to do (if at all), are all the polygons the same size, or variable in size.  Are they the same aspect as th, height to width as the symbol? 

You may be able to scale on a attribute value if you have the size (width or height) as a attribute for example. 

SIZE [attributeValueFromDataSource]   ## This uses the value in the attributes from the data source to size the symbol.  Clipping the symbol to fit an irregular polygon will be another complication, unless you allow for repeating symbols (which is what I thought you were looking for originally. 

bobb 



>>> Adam Eskreis <aeskreis at gmail.com> wrote:

Ok, I read through this, and it was helpful, but i can't figure how to do exactly what I need.

What I essentialy want to do is make the symbol act as though it were the "background image" of the polygon. No repeating, and stretched or compressed to fit, so that the entire image is viewable.

Is somethign like this possible?

-Adam


On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Bob Basques 
<Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us> 

wrote:


Yes, 


see here. . . 



http://mapserver.org/mapfile/symbology/construction.html?highlight=symbol%20fill ( http://mapserver.org/mapfile/symbology/construction.html?highlight=symbol%20fill ) 




>>> Adam Eskreis <aeskreis at gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all.

I have a question that may or may not have been answered before, but I can't seem to find anything on it.

Is it possible with mapserver to make a symbol fill the entire area of a polygon feature? In other words, can I provide an image as the symbol, and have that symbol completely fill the polygon, regardless of the width and height dimensions of the image?

Thank you,

-Adam



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