ROAD, STREET, BUILDING NAMES DOES'NT APPEAR.

Tue Nov 8 03:30:18 EST 2005

Are you sure there is a value for the "Text" attribute? Because this is
different from the annotation layer that is stored in a DGN. The labels
you see in a DGN are annotations, NOT labelled text attributes. To show
those annotations, you'd have to open the DGN as an annotation layer, I
think.

Also, you are defining it as a line layer, yet you ask for an outline
colour in the class, and "styleitem auto". If you use "styleitem auto",
your colours in classes will be ignored. But to define an outline colour
for a line-layer may be a problem...

Anything in your logs?

________________________________

	From: UMN MapServer Users List
[mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Jack Ling
	Sent: 8 November 2005 16:21
	To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
	Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] ROAD, STREET, BUILDING NAMES
DOES'NT APPEAR.

	Hi,

	Thanks for highlighting the error. I've changed accordingly. But
I still see nothing for the label. I can't figure out what else needs to
be amended. I've tried different parameters but failed. To the minimum,
what's missing in the following portion?
	I have the sans font properly put at the right place

	Since DGN file has just one layer, I assume I only needs to deal
with one layer here?

	Below is the portion of the code for the layer.

	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

	      LABEL
	        COLOR 255 255 255
	        SHADOWCOLOR 218 218 218
	        SHADOWSIZE 2 2
	        TYPE TRUETYPE
	        FONT sans
	        SIZE 12
	        ANTIALIAS TRUE
	        POSITION CL
	        PARTIALS FALSE
	        MINDISTANCE 300
	        BUFFER 4
	      END # end of label
	    END

	  END # Layer

	On 11/8/05, Delfos, Jacob <jacob.delfos at maunsell.com> wrote: 

		Your label definition must sit inside the class. So:

		LAYER
		...
		   CLASS
		   .....

		      LABEL
		      ...
		      END #end label

		   END #end class

		END #end layer

		________________________________ 

		        From: UMN MapServer Users List
		[mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Jack
Ling
		        Sent: 8 November 2005 12:43
		        To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
		        Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] ROAD, STREET,
BUILDING NAMES
		DOES'NT APPEAR.

		        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.txt file.
		                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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