[mapserver-users] Symbols for railroad rendering in svg

[Jeff McKenna]

MapServer does have a "Symbology Exchange" section on the wiki; it would 
be great to share your great symbol examples there: 
https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki/MapServer-Symbology-Exchange

-jeff

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Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/




On 2016-11-21 8:35 AM, TMa Teng wrote:
> Thanks Andy,
>
> My 'tie' symbol is same as your 'railway', the actual problem is the track...
>
> My original one is as follow:
> 	SYMBOL
> 	  NAME "line_solid"
> 	  TYPE ellipse
> 	  POINTS 1 1
> 	  END
> 	  FILLED true
> 	END
>
> I changed it to what you suggested, and it works perfectly for SVG output.
>
> Really appreciate your help.
>
> Best regards,
> Teng
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Colson [mailto:andy at squeakycode.net]
> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 8:53 PM
> To: TMa Teng <TMa at edrnet.com>; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Symbols for railroad rendering in svg
>
> Oh, also, my mapserver is:
>
> MapServer version 7.0.2 OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=AGG SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=CAIRO SUPPORTS=ICONV SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER SUPPORTS=FASTCGI SUPPORTS=GEOS INPUT=JPEG INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE
>
>
>
> On 11/18/2016 05:36 PM, TMa Teng wrote:
>> Thanks for sharing your method.
>>
>> However that is still brush line for the railway symbol which is not supported when using SVG format, isn’t it? Could you verify if a wms getmap call which contains the railway layer and in the getmap request set the output format=SVG to see if that works at your side?
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Teng
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andy Colson [mailto:andy at squeakycode.net]
>> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 5:52 PM
>> To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org; TMa Teng <TMa at edrnet.com>
>> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Symbols for railroad rendering in svg
>>
>> On 11/18/2016 2:22 PM, TMa Teng wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am working on a project to export the wms to SVG format, it is the from the requirement of the features to be in vector format. And I am facing trouble to use the render engine to render the railroad symbol as a brush line.
>>>
>>> RailRoad Symbol I am using is as follow:
>>>
>>> 	CLASS
>>> 		NAME "MD_Railroad"
>>>
>>> 		STYLE
>>> 		   SYMBOL "line_solid"
>>> 		   SIZE 2
>>> 		   COLOR 0 0 0
>>> 		END
>>> 		STYLE
>>> 		   SYMBOL "tie"
>>> 		   SIZE 6
>>> 		   COLOR 0 0 0
>>> 		   GAP -10
>>> 		END
>>> 	END
>>>
>>> It works as expect when the return image in raster format such as PNG, but when using SVG it shows error:
>>>
>>> "msDrawLineSymbol(): Renderer error. renderer does not support brushed lines"
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any suggestion about how to design a vector-enabled symbol for railways please? I am using MapServer 7.0, data is in SQL Server Spatial.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Teng
>>> 	
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>>>
>>
>> Without seeing the "tie" symbol, its hard to say if mine is different.
>> Here's how I draw mine:
>>
>> SYMBOL
>> 	NAME "railway"
>> 	TYPE truetype
>> 	FONT "Vera"
>> 	CHARACTER "|"
>> END
>>
>> CLASS
>> 	NAME 'Railroad'
>> 	STYLE
>> 		SYMBOL 0
>> 		COLOR 0 0 0
>> 		SIZE 1
>> 	END
>> 	STYLE
>> 		SYMBOL 'railway'
>> 		COLOR 0 0 0
>> 		SIZE 7
>> 		GAP -10
>> 	END
>> END
>>
>> -Andy
>>
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