Graham,
It looks OK to me. Although the brevity is good, it might help if you could
also attach the table definition - is it just producing a blank png image? is
it in the same projection etc...? How are you accessing it (ie through WMS,
mapscript or standard mapserver output).
I've also
Graham,
Postgresql normally assumes table and column names will be in lower case
and if not you need to quote them. So try:
DATA the_geom from north
and/or (notice the quoting below)
DATA 'the_geom from North'
I think you will find things easier if you keep everything as lower case
