hi, thanks for the replies, since i wanted to keep as a shapefile, i
just opened it up in open office, added a column, alternated 1..5,
and added the appropriate classes to my .map file. pretty painless.
-brent
On Apr 21, 2006, at 10:46 AM, Fawcett, David wrote:
Brent,
Since your countries shapefile likely won't change very often, I would
go with your fallback solution.
It is always faster to pre-class your data.
David.
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Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] randomly assigned COLOR 's?
hi,
with a map of the world with country boundaries and
using only the mapserver CGI, is it possible to have the countries
filled with one of ~5 different colors. either at random or
uniformly. is there a way to do this in the mapfile without relying
on attributes in the shapefile?
my fallback solution will be to add a column in the .shp and assign
number 1 - 5 to each country and use that in a map file EXPRESSION. i
thought maybe there was another means i was missing. something like
an automatic alternating color scheme... to help me do less work.
thanks,
-brent
