Sorry Ed, I must have forgotten to put that part in my email.

Yes, a simple refresh of the same map will, 9 times ot of 10, get rid of the garbage. But then at a random interval it will reappear (but will be different garbage).

It's kind of hard for me to "post" the entire app, or allow access, right now i'm afraid so I appreciate it may be hard for anyone to help, I as just fishing for ideas really!

Thanks,


Steve


Ed McNierney wrote:

Steve -
I actually was asking if the output changed if the SAME map was refreshed - don't zoom in, out, or pan, just refresh the image/reload the page. Does the same image request always return the same image? - Ed

Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
North Chelmsford, MA  01863
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(978) 251-4242


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*From:* Steve Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*Sent:* Thursday, September 14, 2006 10:39 AM
*To:* Ed McNierney
*Cc:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Strange map draw issue

Hi Ed,

Thanks for this. I may check my label columns in the database for NULLs and replace them with an empty string ('') instead. It looks like a classic 'null' issue doesn't it?

Yup - zoom in, zoom out, pan etc and the garbage generally just disappears, or changes its 'content'. Often the angle is the same (suspicious) but sometimes not..... There aren't any features on the angles so i'm not sure if it's a labelling issue or not. Plus the problem only occurs about 1 in 20 or so map draws so is kind of hard to get a definite problem case.

Checkout these additional ones :

http://demo.mercatorgeosystems.co.uk/tmp/1158243616324003.png

And just to prove it's not all CA....  ;-)

http://demo.mercatorgeosystems.co.uk/tmp/1158244089248601.png
http://demo.mercatorgeosystems.co.uk/tmp/1158244147717403.png

Thanks Ed,
Steve


Take a
Ed McNierney wrote:

Steve -
Well, just about anything in California is a little odd..... Are you saying that if you simply refresh the image and re-draw the exact same map you'll see this line of text change? That's puzzling. I would speculate that it's a (garbage) text label for some garbage feature - there's some feature that's defective in both location and label (attributes messed up) and that feature is being labeled. The first thing I'd try is to eliminate layers from the image, testing until the garbage goes away. That could identify the offending layer; if there are multiple classes in that layer, use the same system to identify which class it is. Then see if that says anything helpful. - Ed

Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
North Chelmsford, MA  01863
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(978) 251-4242


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*From:* UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Steve Hall
*Sent:* Thursday, September 14, 2006 9:22 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Strange map draw issue

Hi All,

I've been using Mapserver for a while now, in a variety of situations, but am seeing a slightly strange behaviour in one of my setups. Basically i'm getting a line of 'garbage' being drawn across the generated map image.

A sample of what I mean is here :

http://demo.mercatorgeosystems.co.uk/tmp/1158239461914994.png

There is no road feature or other line that should be there, and if I redraw the map the line of garbage will either disappear or change in either length or 'content'. It doesn't appear all the time, but certainly enough to be annoying.

My MapServer version is 4.8.1, running with Apache 1.3.31 on Fedora Core 4. I've got several other MapServer based configurations on this setup and they're all working fine. The data source in question is an Oracle 10g (10.1) database which is also used for other systems and seems fine.....

Weird eh?  Any suggestions much appreciated!

Thanks,
Steve H

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