Join and Labels

Stephen Woodbridge woodbri at SWOODBRIDGE.COM
Fri Dec 2 11:23:35 EST 2005


No, in general mapserver does not support this directly. You can do this 
with PostGIS and you may be able to do this with GDAL support but I'm 
less sure of that.

I would recommend doing the JOIN externally and creating a new shapefile 
with all the attributes you need for generating your map.

-Steve W.

Travis Kirstine GIS Tech wrote:
> Hi All
> Is it possible to label items based on a JOIN i.e. I have a parcel shpfile
> with a id attribute and a address csv file with a correlating id field, can
> I label the parcel with address information from the csv file
> 
> Travis 
> 



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