Hi Matt, with symbol you are limited to 50 by default but can redefined to something bigger, see MAXSIZE for CLASS in docs though you can create a new polygon to cover the sea near the coast. I'm not sure which way is faster in production, just make some tests
regards, michael On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Matt McClelland <[email protected]> wrote: > Happy new year > > I am wanting to run a wide line down the coast of a map (to cover up some > less then perfect data underneath). > > Basically I want to draw a thin blue line for the coast, and a thick (say > 1000px) light blue line to the right to cover the ocean. > > I have tried parallel lines (using Offset) but this gave a messy result. > So I have now tried using a symbol to fill the area to the right of the > line. This works OK but I seem to be limited to the size. > > Any other better idea on how to solve this issue?? > > > this is the relevant section of the map file for the attached image. > CLASS > EXPRESSION 'coastline' > STYLE > COLOR 181 209 240 > SYMBOL "coastline" > SIZE 500 > WIDTH 1 > #LINEJOIN miter > #OFFSET 14 14 > END # STYLE > STYLE > COLOR 100 100 255 > WIDTH 2 > END # STYLE > END > > SYMBOL > NAME "coastline" > TYPE vector > FILLED true > POINTS > 0 500 > 0 1000 > 500 1000 > 500 500 > END # POINTS > END # SYMBOL > > Matt :) > > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > >
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