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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">Hmm, interesting apporach, reminds me of my ealier days with Oracle (before Oracle Spatial, where each feature type needed it's own table structure . . . Have to do some more thinking on this one.</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">I'm trying to render a predefined list of layers (from the user) of a set of GPS trails that are BEGIN and END indexed.</font> </p>
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>>> Brent Fraser <bfraser@geoanalytic.com> wrote:<br> </p>
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Bob,<br><br>  What kinds of things are you trying to do with layers?  Are the layers vectors?  Maybe there's a different way...<br><br>I'm in the midst of an implementation where the vectors are held in PostGIS in three tables (point, line and polygon) and joined to a "feature definition" table (to supply rendering values).  I use one map file with three layers  (point, line, polygon) and pass a FILTER variable to get my different layers which are then rendered. <br><br>Here's a snippet from the polygon layer:<br><br><tt>        CLASS<br>            STYLE # Polygon Fill<br>                SYMBOL       [polyfill_symbol]<br>                COLOR        [polyfill_fillcolor]<br>                ANGLE        [polyfill_angle]<br>                SIZE         [polyfill_hatchgap]  # e.g Hatching gap<br>                WIDTH         1 # [polyfill_hatchthick]  # Hatching line thickness (column binding doesn't seem to work)               <br>#                OPACITY      50 # [attribute]  # warning: there is no OPACITY for LABEL so don't bother.<br>            END<br>            STYLE # Polygon Outline<br>                SYMBOL       [geom_symbol]<br>                OUTLINECOLOR [geom_outcolor]<br>                SIZE         [geom_width]    # for "simple" (?) symbols<br>                WIDTH        [geom_width]    # for complex symbols<br>            END # Style<br>            TEXT             ([gid])<br>            LABEL<br>                TYPE         TRUETYPE<br>                FONT         [label_font]<br>                ANTIALIAS    TRUE<br>                COLOR        [label_fillcolor]<br>                OUTLINECOLOR [label_outcolor]<br>                BUFFER       1<br>                POSITION     cc        # [ul|uc|ur|cl|cc|cr|ll|lc|lr|auto]<br>                PARTIALS     TRUE<br>                SIZE         [label_height]<br>            END  # LABEL<br><br>        END # clas</tt>s<br><br>While this method is suitable for rendering, it will be a problem if you want store variables for use in an identify operation (or maybe not; I wonder if a template name can be bound to a database column...)<br> </p>
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