[Mapserver-users] Query Help

[Lowell Filak]

I believe "TEXT" is for labelling with a static text string.
Possibly "LABELITEM" is what you need.

Lowell

The following message was sent by Eric Katherman <vaiod at berloy.com> on
Mon, 7 Jun 2004 15:12:45 -0700.

> Okay I am missing something and have looked at the examples but am not
getting 
> the data to show up in a query.  Here is what I have.
> 
> My Layer
> 
> ...
>  LAYER 
>     GROUP streets
>     NAME street
>     DATA street
>     STATUS DEFAULT
>     TYPE LINE
>     FILTERITEM NONSTCO
>     FILTER "B" 
>     LABELMAXSCALE 120000
>     LABELMINSCALE 100
>     
>     PROJECTION
>       "init=/usr/local/share/proj/epsg:2223"
>     END
>     
>     TOLERANCE 3
>     CLASSITEM 'STREET_NAM'
>     CLASS
>     TEMPLATE 'mapserver/streets_header.html'
>     	NAME 'Major Street Labels'
>       COLOR 184 184 184
>       OUTLINECOLOR 32 32 32
>        TEXT ([PRE_DIR] [STREET_NAM] [STREET_TYP])
>        LABEL
>         COLOR 0 0 0
>         SHADOWCOLOR 218 218 218
>         SHADOWSIZE 1 1 
>         TYPE TRUETYPE
>         FONT trebuchet_ms
>         SIZE 12
>         ANTIALIAS TRUE
> 	ANGLE AUTO
>         POSITION CL
>         PARTIALS FALSE
>         MINDISTANCE 300
>         BUFFER 4
> 	
>       END # end of label
>             
>     END
> ...
> 
> I have a template called streets_header.html with nothing in it but
the two 
> fields in my .dbf file I want returned... STREET_NAM and STREET_TYP
but when 
> I query my map all I get is that page with STREET_NAM and STREET_TYP
listed 
> rather then say "49TH AVE"  What am I missing?
> 
> Thanks
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