Broken legend for layers with dash patterns

[fgagnon]

Auto-generated legend icons (from GetLegendGraphic) for layers with dashes represent associated features very poorly.

Tested in both version 5.6.3 and 6.0.0.

[fgagnon]

Sample MapFile (Valid for 5.6.3 and 6.0.0)

[tbonfort]

The syntax you are using is for placing symbols along a line, not for drawing dashed patterns.

try with this:

STYLE
  COLOR 100 100 100
  WIDTH 4
  PATTERN 1 3 END
  LINECAP BUTT
END

This doesn't resolve the legend issue though, but anyhow rendering a wide dashed line on a tiny icon will not give a good result (try increasing the legend icon size)