You can bind a style symbol to an attribute. The value needs to be the name of a system already loaded by MapServer or the name of a local image. You cannot reference a image url.
Steve >>> On 5/27/2009 at 12:26 PM, in message <a3cc80ca0905271026p141e3f92mf817e0e596f7...@mail.gmail.com>, Adam Eskreis <aeskr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to create a layer that has a symbol, however, I want the symbol > for each geometry to be based on a field from the database. For instance, I > am trying to make a layer that would look something like this: > > LAYER > GROUP symbol_layer > TYPE point > STATUS on > CONNECTIONTYPE postgis > CONNECTION "<connection string>" > DATA "the_geom from (SELECT the_geom, symbol_img_url from foo) as foo > using unique id using SRID=-1" > CLASS > STYLE > SYMBOL "[symbol_img_url]" > END > END > END > > Is something like this possible? If not, what part of the source would I > have to edit in order to make it possible? > > Thank you > > -Adam _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
