ROAD, STREET, BUILDING NAMES DOES'NT APPEAR.

[Jack Ling]

Hi All,

Thanks for your information. Based on your comments, I've added label
section, the fonts and font list for FONTSET.

I don't know what should I put for LABELITEM. I put "Text", as seen in the
dump out of OGRFeatures. (sorry, I am really novice in the terms to use).
I've tried amending the various parameters but still don't see the labels
coming out.

Would you please pinpoint me what else I should change in the map file?
Thanks.

My MapFile below:

MAP
NAME USA1
STATUS ON
SIZE 800 500
IMAGETYPE PNG
IMAGECOLOR 0 0 0
SHAPEPATH "../../data/usa"
EXTENT 835249.751000 815599.751000 836000.249000 816200.249000
UNITS METERS
FONTSET "../../etc/fonts.txt"

WEB
IMAGEPATH "/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp/"
IMAGEURL "/ms_tmp/"
END

LAYER
NAME dgn
TYPE LINE
STATUS DEFAULT
CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
CONNECTION "11sw9d.dgn,0"
STYLEITEM "AUTO"

LABELITEM "Text"
CLASS
NAME "USA"
OUTLINECOLOR 60 60 60
SYMBOL 0
STYLE
COLOR 232 232 232
END
LABEL
COLOR 132 31 31
SHADOWCOLOR 218 218 218
SHADOWSIZE 2 2
TYPE TRUETYPE
FONT sans-bold
SIZE 12
ANTIALIAS TRUE
POSITION CL
PARTIALS FALSE
MINDISTANCE 300
BUFFER 4
END # end of label
END

END # Layer



END

On 11/7/05, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/7/05, Jack Ling <fly2moon2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For the text labels, they are represented using the LABEL function like
> > below and these are the ones NOT SHOWN:
> >
> > OGRFeature(elements):535
> > Type (Integer) = 17
> > Level (Integer) = 11
> > GraphicGroup (Integer) = 0
> > ColorIndex (Integer) = 0
> > Weight (Integer) = 0
> > Style (Integer) = 0
> > EntityNum (Integer) = (null)
> > MSLink (Integer) = (null)
> > Text (String) = Convention and Exhibition Centre
> > Style = LABEL(t:"Convention and Exhibition Centre",c:#ffffff,s:1.800g)
> > POINT (835848.10800000001 816023.95000000007 0)
> >
> > It is a steep learning curve for me to understand MapServer and the
> > elements behind. Hope someone can point out what should I do to make the
> > ROAD, BUILDING NAME labels appear correctly.
>
> Jack,
>
> I *think* the most common reason autostyling text from OGR fails in
> mapserver is forgetting to map the "default" font in your fontlist.txtfile.
> This is the font name used when the LABEL tool does not include
> an explicit font name, as in this case.
>
> Hopefully this will help.
>
> Best regards,
> --
>
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