Yeah, that might be a solution. But I fear it might be mistaken as a signature for railways, but at least this would make the lines appear homogene.
thanks, Frank Am 2013-12-18 15:18, schrieb Brent Fraser: > Frank, > > The best I've been able to do (with mapserv v5.6.5) is use two STYLE > blocks, one to render a white line and the other to render the dash: > > STYLE > SYMBOL 0 > WIDTH 2 > OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255 > END > STYLE > SYMBOL 'dashed3' > WIDTH 2 > OUTLINECOLOR 150 150 150 > END > > The white STYLE renders over top any existing dash pattern from an > adjacent polygon. I've tried to make the white transparent but didn't > have any luck with that, but at least the grey dashes don't collide. > > Best Regards, > Brent Fraser > > On 12/18/2013 3:37 AM, Frank Broniewski wrote: > I came up with a similar solution - I imported the shapefile into > GRASS and exported the boundaries again as shapefile, but your > solution is easier to handle. But I really wish there would be a > mapserver-only solution. I am hesitatant to create files for visual > reasons only ... > > Frank > > Am 2013-12-18 11:22, schrieb Rahkonen Jukka: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Would it be acceptable to create a new dataset for rendering the >>>> borders by converting polygons into linestrings and merging the >>>> overlapping segments? With OpenJUMP you cound do it with a single >>>> operation Tools - Edit Geometry - Convert - Extract Segments. >>>> Select option "Merge resulting segments" and you've done it. >>>> >>>> -Jukka Rahkonen- >>>> >>>> Frank Broniewski wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I'm trying to get the styling right for administrative >>>>> boundaries. The data source is a polygon shapefile with >>>>> administrative boundaries of a certain level. I want to have a >>>>> dashed line style to symbolize the boundary. The layer is used as >>>>> TYPE LINE. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The style I'm using: >>>>> >>>>> STYLE Color 100 100 100 Gap 4 Linecap butt Linejoin miter >>>>> Linejoinmaxsize 3 Pattern 2 6 2 6 2 6 End Symbol "circle" Width >>>>> 2 END >>>>> >>>>> Problem is that the pattern overlaps where a boundary is drawn >>>>> more than once due to the shared nature of adjacent adminstrative >>>>> units. Since the source is a shapefile there's no topology that >>>>> would prevent the issue and my PostGis DB doesn't support that >>>>> (yet)*. Here's a screenshot that displays the issue: >>>>> http://www.geometrico.lu/devel/mapserver/boundary-styling.png As >>>>> you can see the styling varies greatly. So - does anyone have a >>>>> clue on how to get the styling right? It should look like in the >>>>> lower right corner of the screenshot ... >>>>> >>>>> Many thanks, >>>>> >>>>> Frank >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> * BTW: can Mapserver handle PostGIS topology geometry types? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> - -- Frank BRONIEWSKI >>>>> >>>>> METRICO s.à r.l. géomètres technologies d'information >>>>> géographique rue des Romains 36 L-5433 NIEDERDONVEN >>>>> >>>>> tél.: +352 26 74 94 - 28 fax.: +352 26 74 94 99 >>>>> http://www.metrico.lu >> _______________________________________________ >> mapserver-users mailing list >> mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > > > > -- Frank BRONIEWSKI METRICO s.à r.l. géomètres technologies d'information géographique rue des Romains 36 L-5433 NIEDERDONVEN tél.: +352 26 74 94 - 28 fax.: +352 26 74 94 99 http://www.metrico.lu _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
