Time for action – dealing with angles and transparency
When representing a point marker, you can add a rotation angle to those shapes where it makes sense to. You can also set opacity to make the fill, stroke, or both more or less transparent. Let's create a new style experimenting with these features:
Take the
PopulatedPlacesStrokes.xml
file, make a copy of it, and name it asPopulatedRotateTransparent.xml
. Edit the new file in your text editor.Go to line 9 and replace the text inside the
Name
element with the following:<Name>PopulatedRotateTransparent</Name>
Go to line 11 and replace the text inside the
Title
element with the following:<Title>Geoserver Beginners Guide: Populated Places rotated mark with transparency</Title>
Now we will change the size for marker. Go to line 26 and replace the text inside the
Size
element with the following:<Size>9</Size>
To rotate the marker, add a line after the
Size
element setting an angle of45
degrees:...