[udig-devel] style using 2 layers

[Jesse Eichar]

Thanks Dan.  That's a fair solution.  One could create an uDig  
operation quite easily that could perform that job.

Jesse

On 5-Jan-07, at 1:00 PM, Dan Putler wrote:

> Hi Dale,
>
> I assume that the universities layer is a point layer of university  
> locations? Are the layers shapefiles?
>
> The way I would do this (assuming you are working with shapefiles)  
> is to calculate the number of universities in each state, and then  
> append this as a new attribute to the your USA states attribute  
> table. It isn't a uDig based solution, but the typical way of  
> dealing with this type of problem.
>
> Dan
>
> On 5-Jan-07, at 12:53 PM, Dale Slone wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Not sure if this is the right list for what's really a user  
>> question...
>>
>> Is there a way to color one layer based on values in a second  
>> layer, using
>> the Style->Theme or Style->XML options?
>>
>> For example, layer 1 is USA states, and layer 2 is universities -  
>> I'd like
>> to color the states based on universities/per area or
>> universities/per population.
>>
>> Thanx
>>
>> Dale
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