[mapserver-users] 3.5: how to handle empty DATA layerswhich were accepted in 3.4

Steve Lime steve.lime@dnr.state.mn.us
Thu, 07 Feb 2002 09:35:41 -0600


You shouldn't have to do this though. What symtoms are you experiencing
if you leave out the empty feature? What does your code look like?

Steve

Stephen Lime
Data & Applications Manager

Minnesota DNR
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St. Paul, MN 55155
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>>> Andrea Giacomelli <andreag@crs4.it> 02/07/02 08:44AM >>>
Rodrigo Cabral wrote:
> 
> Andrea,
> 
> What you need, as Steve mentioned, is to defined an empty inline
feature in
> your mapfile. Like this:
> 
> layer
>   name 'my_point_layer'
>   type point
>   feature end # here's the trick
>   class
>      color 0 0 0
>   end
> end
> 

> 
> If you do a layer/map draw then you need valid DATA or inline
features
> but it sounds like you're not doing that.
> 

The trick did it. Thanks to all.


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