Time for action – using dashed lines

On many paper maps, a common symbol for representing roads under construction or planned is a couple of parallel dashed lines. Can you imagine how to do it with SLD? It requires a couple of lines merged together with a new SLD element. We will see that element in this section:

1. Take the Roads.xml file and make a copy to DashedRoads.xml, then edit the new file in your text editor.

2. Go to line 9 and replace the text inside the Name element with the following code:

       <Name>DashedRoads</Name>

3. Go to line 11 and replace the text inside the Title element with the following code:

       <Title>Geoserver Beginners Guide: Roads under construction with dashing</Title>

4. Go to line 17 and change the width of the symbol to 5:

       <CssParameter name="stroke-width">5</CssParameter>

5. Add a line just after the previous line to set dashing for the black lines:

       <CssParameter name="stroke-dasharray">15 10</CssParameter>

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