Dave, Do you have a symbols.sym file that contains a symbol definition named 'circle'? Is there a SYMBOLSET line in your map file with the proper path to your symbol file?
Alternatively, do you define a symbol named 'circle' directly in your map file? My guess is that MapServer can't find a symbol definition for 'circle'. David. -----Original Message----- From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Stone Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Defining simple symbols I'm having no joy getting off the ground with a simple familiarisation exercise -- today's headbanger is drawing dots! My layer is: LAYER # test query layer CONNECTIONTYPE postgis NAME saint_dedications #CONNECTION "user=erdb13 dbname=stdraft host=localhost port=5432" CONNECTION "user=erdb13 dbname=stdraft" DATA "geom from loccoords" STATUS ON TYPE POINT CLASS NAME "locations" STYLE SYMBOL NAME "circle" TYPE ELLIPSE FILLED TRUE POINTS 2 2 END END COLOR 255 0 0 OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0 END The data is being fetched OK from the database, because until I put the SYMBOL definition in, the layer showed tiny red marks (which I want now to replace with larger red dots). But all I get is: getSymbol(): Symbol definition error. Parsing error near (NAME):(line 132) on the line after SYMBOL. Can anyone tell me what's wrong please?
