[mapserver-users] line issue in mapserver 6

[Richard Greenwood]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Murat Beyhan <muratbeyhan28 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I have installed mapserver 6.0.1 on ubuntu 12.10 and I tried to draw map
> which is including some line and polygon layers.
> By the way I have been using mapserver 5.4.2 for a long time.
>
> Same map file which is working to draw map using mapserver 5.4.2 working
> well under mandriva 2010.
> When I try to draw it on new Mapserver the line looking like a point on
> the map even if its shapefile is line data.
> BUt for old mapsever it seems line without any problem.
>
> When I try to find reason I understood style and symbol has minor change.
>
> Then I would like to solve my problem making some test.
>
> Then I have found a solution but it is little bit strange.
> like this
>
> for old version of mapserver layers as follows in the map and it seems
> like a point on the map when I zoomed much.
>
>
> LAYER
> NAME Faults
> TYPE line
> DATA faults_line
> STATUS on
>    CLASS
>    SYMBOL "cline"
>    SIZE 1
>    COLOR 200 10 0
>    END
> END
>
> and symbol cline as follows
>
> SYMBOL
>   NAME "cline"
>   TYPE line
>   POINTS 0 0  END
>   FILLED TRUE
>  END
> these are workng for the mapserver 5.4.2 well.
>
> But for Mapserver 6.0 it look like a points instead of line on the map.
> Then I have used style and I modified map file as follows
>
>  LAYER
> TYPE line
> STATUS on
>  CLASS
>   STYLE
>   WIDTH 2.0
>    COLOR 200 10 20
>   END
> END
>

You need one more "END" above so that it looks like:

LAYER
   TYPE line
   STATUS on
   CLASS
      STYLE
         WIDTH 2.0
         COLOR 200 10 20
      END # style
   END # class
END #layer


>
> LAYER
>   NAME Faults
>   DATA fault_lines
>   STATUS on
>  END
>

You need a CLASS and a STYLE in your Faults layer above.
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