[mapserver-users] tips to draw a symbol‏

Thu Feb 28 00:20:24 PST 2013

ANCHORPOINT was introduced in 6.2.
Mapserver does not care about the units of measure, so you
can use what is most convenient for you.
Instead of measuring manually, you could digitize with
your favourite digitizing software and extract the numbers
from the resulting digital representation.

Håvard

On 2/27/2013 10:44 AM, Gery wrote:
> Thanks again Håvard, and the SYMBOL ANCHORPOINT is not present in version 5.6, right? splitting and then combining as you suggest is the solution for me. How about measuring? is there any tip? imagine I have a simple notebook with graph paper, I draw (or print) there the image I want to reproduce in mapserver and then measure it in centimeters? milimeters?
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> Piensa en el medio ambiente - mantenlo en la pantalla. NO lo imprimas si NO es necesario.
> Think green - keep it on the screen. Do NOT print if it is NOT necessary.
> Denken Sie an die Umwelt- bewahren Sie es auf dem Bildschirm. Drucken Sie es NICHT, wenn es NICHT notwendig ist.
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> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:22:19 -0800
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> Creating vector symbols:
> Unless you have a formulae, you will have to measure.
>
> In 6.2, precise placement of symbols is easy using SYMBOL
> ANCHORPOINT.  It is therefore possible to split a complex
> symbol into more manageable parts (for instance some parts
> using lines and some parts using polygons), and then combine
> them using STYLEs.
>
> Håvard
>
> On 2/26/2013 10:21 AM, Gery wrote:
>  > Hello Håvard,
>  >
>  > Thanks for your answer, I tested yesterday in my 5.6 version and it also works well, the problem is that after changing the values during many hours I couldn't set properly the right value to get that "opened v", so I think just doing random changes here and there won't help me to draw well this figure. I was thinking about some tips to draw this image, I think first I should take a piece of paper and draw this image and then take the measurements from it, is this the right, easy way to do it? those values in v-poly were calculated in this way?
>  >
>  > Gery
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>  > Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:07:25 -0800
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>  > Dear Gary,
>  >
>  > The v-poly symbol should be OK (I just tested it with
>  > 6.2 and 5.6.6).  If you want an open V, you should
>  > use only outlinecolor:
>  >
>  >         STYLE
>  >           SYMBOL "v-poly"
>  >           SIZE 30
>  >           OUTLINECOLOR 0 255 0
>  >         END # STYLE
>  >
>  > Håvard
>  >
>  > On 2/26/2013 12:36 AM, Gery wrote:
>  >
>  >  > Hello folks,
>  >  >
>  >  > I've been trying to draw the attached image but with no luck, I've used
>  >  > "v-poly" from http://mapserver.org/mapfile/symbology/construction.html but
>  >  > couldn't get the opened "v" effect, could anyone please provide some tips to
>  >  > draw such image? I'll appreciate it, thanks in advance.
>  >  >
>  >  > Regards,
>  >  >
>  >  > Gery
>  >  >
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