[ka-Map-users] Customized layer for Mapserver/Kamap

[Lorenzo Becchi]

Emilio, your problem is related to the mapfile configuration:
http://ms.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/mapfile/layer
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/mapfile/class
ciao
lorenzo



Emilio Ponce wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm working with mapserver using ka-map. Now I'm trying to create a 
> new layer over the others using alphanumeric data, and  I was 
> wondering  what's the best method.
> My idea is to represent this data with a colour gradient. For example 
> if the data are like this:
>
> City          Population
> ---------------------------
> Barcelona 4000000
> Madrid      7000000
>
> I want to represent the Barcelona area with a light red colour, and 
> Madrid with a darker red.
> Someone told me that the only input to Ka-map is mapserver, and 
> mapserver uses GDAL/OGR library for this kind of tasks... so what is 
> the best kind of input format using this library? And in order to 
> represent the data with the colour gradient, where I have to link the 
> alphanumeric data (e.g 4000000) with the colour (e.g. dark red)?
>
> Thank you very much guys!
>
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