Very very offtopic, but it may help someone else someday... Using CONNECTIONTYPE OGR for shapefile connections is a power user trick that comes in handy more times than you think. During my Advanced MapServer workshop at FOSS4G-BA, we tackled international character labeling ("international" not for them, for local users there if they want labeling in Spanish some characters will cause grief), and the quick solution for labeling was: make sure the mapfile is saved as UTF8 encoding [especially if you plan to refer to special characters in EXPRESSIONs), and then make sure for the LAYER to set CONNECTIONTYPE OGR. Bingo, that easy. (attendees saw me sweat for a few minutes, but this trick saved me)
So keep that in your back pocket always. -jeff -- Jeff McKenna MapServer Consulting and Training Services http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/ On 2013-05-09 9:30 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote: > Hi Roger, > > It would be great if you could make available your test shp, possibly > point to it [or upload it to a shared OSGeo server] and your tiny > mapfile directly in a comment in the ticket ( > https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/issues/3514). Once you do that > I'll test your mapfile with master/trunk. > > Thanks, > > -jeff > > _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users