[postgis] polygon error message

Dave Blasby dblasby at refractions.net
Tue Sep 4 12:21:05 PDT 2001


Ross.Searle at dnr.qld.gov.au wrote:
> I'm trying to draw up a polygon layer in mapserver as a polyline type but
> get the following error message.
> msDrawShape(): General error message. Only polygon shapes can be drawn using
> a polyline layer definition.
> I have loaded an arcview shapefile (polygon theme) using the shp2pgsql
> utility. The data is stored in the postgres table as MULTIPOLYGON. Am I
> doing something wrong or is this a limitation of postgis

I was unable to reproduce your error.  Could you pg_dump your table and
email/ftp it (or the shape file) to me?
Please also include your mapserver map file.

dave

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