[Mapserver-users] TEXT expression and MAPMYGIS

[Alan Steremberg]

Hi,

I built a simple database with points, and a bunch of fields that will
eventually have weather data. (If you go to:
http://www.wunderground.com/US/CA/San_Francisco.html  scroll to the bottom
and click on the MSN map, you will see what I am trying to build)

I would like to pull two fields out of the database, like:

f_ID and f_NEIGHBORHOOD

If i put it in the LABELITEM as above, it works and I get lots of weather
stations.  If i try to create the expression below, it just prints the
text ([f_ID],[f_NEIGHBORHOOD]) on the map without evaluating it.  The
other thing I don't understand is that it has to be TYPE ANNOTATION not
TYPE POINT.  what am I doing wrong?


LAYER
    CONNECTIONTYPE mygis
    NAME "pws"
    CONNECTION "g7:wui:Phishy:geodata:num"
    DATA "geometry from pws feature, pws_num geometry"
    STATUS DEFAULT
    #TYPE POINT
    TYPE ANNOTATION
    LABELITEM "f_NEIGHBORHOOD"
    #LABELITEM "f_ID"
    LABELCACHE TRUE
    CLASS
        NAME "Weather Station"
    #   TEXT "([f_ID],[f_NEIGHBORHOOD])"
        #TEXT "(A,B)"
        SYMBOL "marker"
        COLOR 0 0 0
        LABEL
            TYPE TRUETYPE
            FONT "verdana-bold"
            SIZE 8
            #POSITION UC
            POSITION AUTO
            OFFSET 0 10
            BUFFER 2
            COLOR 200 0 0
            OUTLINECOLOR 230 230 230
            FORCE TRUE
        END
    END
END

Thanks!
Alan
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 Alan Steremberg
 415-543-5021 x 103
 http://www.wunderground.com