Thanks guys for your thoughts...still green to this and trying to learn

I would make real sense to me to create the .sym file where I would not have to 
redefine the particular symbol sets



DO I HAVE THIS RIGHT?



1.  BUT how do I define the symbol set or point to the .sym file from the map 
file ?????



SYMBOL FILE: So in the Symbol file I would have this (example of two of them)



SYMBOL

  NAME 'bike'

  TYPE pixmap

  IMAGE '/home/mapserv/proj/pmap/bike.png'

  TRANSPARENT 2

END

SYMBOL

  NAME 'church'

  TYPE pixmap

  IMAGE '/home/mapserv/proj/pmap/church.png'

  TRANSPARENT 5

END





MAP FILE: I would simply call them?



CLASS

  STYLE

    SYMBOL "bike"

    COLOR 0 0 0

    OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0

  END

END





-----Original Message-----
From: Fawcett, David (MPCA) [mailto:david.fawc...@state.mn.us]
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 9:50 AM
To: Jay Kapalczynski; 'Michael Schulz'
Cc: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Symbology



You can put the symbol definition in your map file, or in a symbols file (e.g. 
symbols.sym) and then set SYMBOLSET at the MAP level to point to your 
symbols.sym file.



David.



-----Original Message-----

From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org 
[mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jay Kapalczynski

Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 9:45 AM

To: 'Michael Schulz'

Cc: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org

Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Symbology



Ok that seems to make sense...but where do I place the image SYMBOL (your 
example below)?  DO I place that in the map file as well?

Little confused there....



Thanks Michael and Adam for your return replys.





-----Original Message-----

From: mandsch...@googlemail.com [mailto:mandsch...@googlemail.com] On Behalf Of 
Michael Schulz

Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 9:27 AM

To: Jay Kapalczynski

Cc: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org

Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Symbology



Hi,



yes, you have to define an image symbol in your symbolset and use that:



SYMBOL

  NAME 'church'

  TYPE pixmap

  IMAGE 'church.gif'

  TRANSPARENT 5

END



then use

SYMBOL 'church' in your style.



Cheers, Michael



2010/9/16 Jay Kapalczynski <jkapalczyn...@ci.maple-grove.mn.us>:

> In a map file...Is there a way to use an image (jpg, bmp, png) instead of a

> marker symbol (star, circle etc) when symbolizing points

>

>

>

>        LAYER

>

>               DUMP TRUE

>

>               NAME 'Firestations'

>

>               DATA 'firestations'

>

>               TYPE POINT

>

>               STATUS ON

>

>               CLASS

>

>                 NAME 'Fire Stations'

>

>                 COLOR 254 0 0

>

>                      INSTEAD OF STAR PLACE AN IMAGE

>

>                 SYMBOL "star"

>

>                     SIZE 8

>

>               END

>

>

>

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