[maplab-users] Failure to preview in MapEdit, failure to produce map in GMAP

[Jeff McKenna]

Try commenting line 81 (or just remove it):

# CONNECTIONTYPE LOCAL



jeff





Ivan Kautter wrote:
> List Subscribers,
> 
> I am running msw4_1.0.2 with maplab and chameleon installed.  Tutorial 
> map works perfectly.  I have edited my mapfile to resemble its format as 
> closely as I think it should be.  However I get these errors with 
> mapedit preview:
> 
> Warning: [MapServer Error]: getSymbol(): Parsing error near 
> (LOCAL):(line 81) in 
> C:\ms4w\apps\maplab-2.2\htdocs\common\wrapper\map_session.php on line 215
> 
> Warning: Failed to open map file /ms4w/tmp//430fc515bc66b.map in 
> C:\ms4w\apps\maplab-2.2\htdocs\common\wrapper\map_session.php on line 215
> 
> Warning: [MapServer Error]: getSymbol(): Parsing error near 
> (LOCAL):(line 81) in 
> C:\ms4w\apps\maplab-2.2\htdocs\common\wrapper\map_session.php on line 215
> 
> Warning: [MapServer Error]: getSymbol(): Parsing error near 
> (LOCAL):(line 81) in 
> C:\ms4w\apps\maplab-2.2\htdocs\common\wrapper\map_session.php on line 215
> 
> Warning: Failed to open map file /ms4w/tmp//430fc515bc66b.map in 
> C:\ms4w\apps\maplab-2.2\htdocs\common\wrapper\map_session.php on line 215
> 
> Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in 
> C:\ms4w\apps\maplab-2.2\htdocs\mapedit\preview.php on line 308
> 
> 
> 
> Mapfile resides in its own folder in the same manner as the tutorial map 
> file with data and etc folders at the same directory level as the 
> tutorial folder.  I have tried to make it all exactly the same as the 
> tutorial folder is set up.
> 
> Here is the map file.  I have no idea what I could be doing wrong:
> 
> MAP
>  NAME "Test"
>  STATUS ON
>  EXTENT -364597.669460 -602103.803190 508783.376160 446079.722497
>  SIZE 800 600
>  SHAPEPATH "./data"
>  SYMBOLSET "./etc/symbols.sym"
>  FONTSET "./etc/fonts.txt"
>  IMAGETYPE PNG
>  IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
>  UNITS FEET
>  SCALE 100000
>  WEB
>    MINSCALE 100
>    MAXSCALE 1000000
>    IMAGEPATH "/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp"
>    IMAGEURL "/ms_tmp"
>    METADATA
>    END
>  END
>  QUERYMAP
>    STATUS ON
>    COLOR 255 255 0
>    STYLE HILITE
>  END
>  LEGEND
>    STATUS ON
>    IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
>    TRANSPARENT OFF
>    POSITION LL
>    KEYSIZE 18 12
>    KEYSPACING 5 5
>    LABEL
>      TYPE BITMAP
>      SIZE MEDIUM
>      OFFSET 0 0
>      BUFFER 0
>      MINDISTANCE -1
>      MINFEATURESIZE -1
>      COLOR 0 0 89
>      PARTIALS TRUE
>      FORCE FALSE
>    END
>  END
>  SCALEBAR
>    STATUS ON
>    COLOR 255 255 255
>    IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
>    TRANSPARENT OFF
>    UNITS MILES
>    INTERVALS 5
>    SIZE 150 5
>    STYLE 0
>    POSITION LC
>    LABEL
>      TYPE BITMAP
>      SIZE SMALL
>      POSITION AUTO
>      OFFSET 0 0
>      BUFFER 0
>      MINDISTANCE -1
>      MINFEATURESIZE -1
>      COLOR 0 0 0
>      PARTIALS TRUE
>      FORCE FALSE
>    END
>  END
>  OUTPUTFORMAT
>    NAME "png"
>    MIMETYPE "image/png"
>    DRIVER "GD/PNG"
>    EXTENSION "png"
>    IMAGEMODE PC256
>    TRANSPARENT OFF
>  END
>  LAYER
>    NAME "DFGLands"
>    STATUS ON
>    DATA "./data/dfg_lands"
>    TYPE POLYGON
>    CONNECTIONTYPE LOCAL
>    UNITS FEET
>    SIZEUNITS PIXELS
>    MINSCALE 1
>    MAXSCALE 100
>    SYMBOLSCALE 1
>    TOLERANCE 0
>    TOLERANCEUNITS PIXELS
>    DEBUG ON
>    CLASS
>      NAME "DFG_Lands"
>      MINSCALE 1
>      MAXSCALE 100
>      DEBUG ON
>      STYLE
>        SYMBOL 0
>        COLOR 153 84 42
>        OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
>        SIZE 1
>        MINSIZE 1
>        MAXSIZE 100
>      END
>    END
>  END
> END
> 
> 
> What am I missing?  This is the closest I have gotten maplab to work, 
> i.e. functioning tutorial map.  It would be really great if I could get 
> this finally working.
> 
> The only GIS data in the map is a single shape file.  If I can't get 
> that to work, I don't what I can get to work.
> 
> Thanks for any and all assistance.
> 
> 
> Ivan Kautter
> 


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Jeff McKenna
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