Re: [mapserver-users] entities one upon the other

2009-11-13 Thread Thomas Bonfort
if you're using the AGG rendering backend, you can set an opacity on your polygon styles, in which case you should see varying opacity the more features are piled one upon another. STYLE COLOR r g b OPACITY 50 END regards, thomas www.camptocamp.com +33 5 16 57 01 02 On Thu, Nov 12, 2009

Re: [mapserver-users] entities one upon the other

2009-11-12 Thread Dan Little
You have a few options based on what you know about ahead of time: 1) If you know the stacking order ahead of time you can create separate layers that force the stacking to happen properly. 2) If you don't know the stacking order ahead of time, you can try using patterned fills instead of

Re: [mapserver-users] entities one upon the other

2009-11-12 Thread Ludwig Kniprath
Hello, perhaps some other solutions for your problem: - use a special class for the small entities, that has to be defined as the last class in the Layer-Definition and so will be drawn upon the other classes - for database-layers: use a order-by-clause to get the result ordered by their sice