Re: [mapserver-users] minscaledenom puzzle, Mapserver 6.0.1

2011-09-29 Thread Peter N. Schweitzer
Thanks Thomas and Steve! Thomas is right that I needed a real symbol and not symbol 0 within the pixel-sized class. I was confused by the docs under class:symbol, which says Default is 0, which results in a single pixel, ... Is that part now out of date? But I like Steve's suggestion that

Re: [mapserver-users] minscaledenom puzzle, Mapserver 6.0.1

2011-09-29 Thread thomas bonfort
Thomas is right that I needed a real symbol and not symbol 0 within the pixel-sized class.  I was confused by the docs under class:symbol, which says Default is 0, which results in a single pixel, ...  Is that part now out of date? Yes, it's out of date. The default symbol at index 0 should

Re: [mapserver-users] minscaledenom puzzle, Mapserver 6.0.1

2011-09-28 Thread Steve Lime
Hmmm... What if you use one layer with the various class/expressions and MAXSCALEDENOM set at the layer level for all the various squares and then a second layer with just one class for the pixels with MINSCALEDENOM set. I typically use layer scales far more than class scale and that setup would

[mapserver-users] minscaledenom puzzle, Mapserver 6.0.1

2011-09-27 Thread Peter N. Schweitzer
Surely I have misunderstood minscaledenom or otherwise have misused it. I just switched over to Mapserver 6.0.1 (Linux, CentOS, data in PostgreSQL+PostGIS) The web page is http://mrdata.usgs.gov/mineral-resources/mrds-us.html Feature type is point. The classes from the map file are these: