[mapserver-users] Abandoned railroad symbol

[Bob Basques]

All, 

How about just using a "+" sign as a symbol for the line instead of all the STYLE stuff? 

bobb 



>>> "Bistrais, Bob" <Bob.Bistrais at maine.gov> wrote:


Hmm, still not getting the spacing correct.  The crossties seem to be at a consistent interval, but the dashed centerline isn't spacing well- sometimes I get ties centered on the line (which is whaat I want), and sometimes the ties are at the end of a dash.

-----Original Message-----
From: thomas bonfort [mailto:thomas.bonfort at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 11:21 AM
To: Bistrais, Bob
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Abandoned railroad symbol

SYMBOL
  NAME "tie"
  TYPE TRUETYPE
  FONT "path/to/arial.ttf"
  CHARACTER "|"
END


CLASS
    EXPRESSION ('[STATUS]' = '3')
# The crossties:
    STYLE
      COLOR 200 200 200
      SIZE 4
      SYMBOL "tie"
      GAP -10
    END
# The centerline:
    STYLE
      COLOR 200 200 200
      WIDTH 1
      PATTERN
        5 10
      END
    END

  END

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 17:15, Bistrais, Bob <Bob.Bistrais at maine.gov> wrote:
> I've been playing around with the symbology but I'm not getting my spacing
> right.  I'm trying to create a symbol for abandoned railroad track, looks
> like the standard RR symbol, a line with the crossties, but dashed.  Here is
> my code.  Problem is, although I get a dashed line and the crossties, the
> interval isn't correct, and I was wondering if anyone had advice on making
> it more consistent so the crossties are always on the dashed line:
>
>
>
>   CLASS
>
>     EXPRESSION ('[STATUS]' = '3')
>
> # The crossties:
>
>     STYLE
>
>       COLOR 200 200 200
>
>       WIDTH 4
>
>       LINECAP BUTT
>
>       ANGLE 90
>
>       PATTERN
>
>         1 10
>
>       END
>
>     END
>
> # The centerline:
>
>     STYLE
>
>       COLOR 200 200 200
>
>       WIDTH 1
>
>       PATTERN
>
>         5 10
>
>       END
>
>     END
>
>
>
>   END
>
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