[maplab-users] Symbol examples

[Fred Warnock]

Hi Alfredo,

Did you know you can define TT Font characters as symbols in the symbol 
file?  Check out the MapServer refrence at UMN for details on how.  This 
may be the easiest way to add symbols to the map without designing your 
own.  Besides TT Characters, you can also use bitmap graphics (my 
favourite) and of course you can define your own in the symbol syntax 
which I find challenging.

just incase you didn't already know, the refrence I'm refering to is at:

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc36/mapfile-reference.html#symbology

I hope this help you get the symbols on your map that you want.  The 
only places I know of any other symbol file defined symbols are in some 
of the demos on th UMN Site, but from what I can tell they are mostly 
basic shapes and hatch patterns.

-- 
Fred Warnock : Web, Graphic & Cartographic Design
              : DM Solutions Group Inc.

     web site : http://www.dmsolutions.ca