Re: [udig-users] Combining Wind Direction and Wind Speed Data into Wind

[Jody Garnett <jgarnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here is another interesting email from Gary:
- http://osdir.com/ml/gis.geotools2.user/2006-11/msg00025.html

Looking at:
- 
http://www.newmediastudio.org/DataDiscovery/Hurr_ED_Center/Satellites_and_Sensors/QuikSCAT/QuikSCAT_fig6.gif

Looks like it may be some fun modal math to select the correct flags(s) 
to draw.
Jody

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Why not? Do I misunderstand? Mapserver can do it.. it just takes a lot
> of rules, and the ability to do rotated symbols.  So you feed
> windspeed into a set of 5-6 rules that choose a symbols with the right
> number of barbs, then rotate that symbol based on the wind direction,
> voila.
>
> What's uDig / SLD missing? The rotation-based-on-attribute part?
> P.
>