Matt, It sounds like you have several different line layers and they are all currently being displayed in the default style (and that looks kind of crappy)...
To make your data look better, you can use classes and styles within your layers. If you want all of the features within a layer to look the same, you just define one class within that layer. If you want to use different symbology based on an attribute of the data, you use multiple classes in the same layer. Individual classes have expressions that determine which features 'fall into' that class. Here is an example of a line layer with only one class. If you uncomment the first style, you 'stack' the styles and you get a colored line with an outline of a different color: LAYER NAME "simple line" TYPE LINE STATUS DEFAULT DATA 'rail_linesln3' CLASS #STYLE #WIDTH 6 #COLOR 120 120 120 #END STYLE WIDTH 4 COLOR 242 191 36 END END END In this case, if you had a column in your shapefile called ROAD_TYPE, you will get different symbology depending on the value of that column for that feature: LAYER NAME "my roads" TYPE LINE STATUS DEFAULT DATA 'roads' CLASSITEM "ROAD_TYPE" CLASS NAME 'Asphalt' EXPRESSION 'asphalt' STYLE WIDTH 6 COLOR 212 212 212 END END CLASS NAME 'Gravel' EXPRESSION 'gravel' STYLE WIDTH 4 COLOR 242 191 34 END END CLASS NAME 'Other' #any feature that doesn't match the above expressions gets caught by this class STYLE COLOR 255 51 51 WIDTH 3 END END Does this get you started? David. -----Original Message----- From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of wildcolour Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 3:38 PM To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [mapserver-users] Real life sample of a Mapfile for shp files on WMS Hi All I am a newbie, so sorry if it seems like I have no idea (it is probably because I really do have no idea). We have got mapserver up and running, and the WMS is working fine. I have read through the documentation, but I am lost without an more detailed example of a mapfile. I have about 6 shp files. Each file has different features that I want to make into different WMS layers. The data is for a topographical map. For example a file contains roads, power-lines and walking tracks. Each type of road, power-line etc have different tags (some also have the name of the road after a comma). I am assuming this is fairly normal so far. What I want to be able to do is apply a different class (not sure this is the right term) to the roads, the power-lines and the walking tracks. Looks like I need to do some kind of query in the map file. At this stage we have only each file acting as layer. Does anyone have an example mapfile (that splits a SHP file into different layers) that they would be happy to send? I am fairly confident the penny will drop for me if I can see a working example. Thanks Matt :) -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Real-life-sample-of-a-Mapfile-for-shp-files-on-WMS-tp5718787p5718787.html Sent from the Mapserver - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users