Label with substring of metadata

[David Isaacson]

Thanks for your help, guys.  It turns out (like usual) that the solution 
was something simple.  The permissions on the dbf file, which I copied 
from Windows to Linux, were all messed up, and no one had read access.

I'll try one of those programs you mentioned next time I need to edit a 
file -- excel was a pain.

David

Dylan Beaudette wrote:

>On Wednesday 24 January 2007 20:57, David Isaacson wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>I want to label my map with a substring of the metadata.  I've got a
>>freeway map, and all of the freeways are labeled as "Interstate 5" and
>>"US Highway 6".  I just want the number.
>>
>>Is this possible?
>>
>>I thought I might try to add that data to the .dbf file, using Excel.
>>And it works using shp2img, but when I use ka-map to create an
>>interactive map no roads are drawn at all (and no error messages are
>>given either).  So what the hell is going on?
>>
>>What's the right way to add metadata to a shapefile (assume I can't
>>afford to buy ArcGIS)?  And is there an easier way to do this whole
>>labeling thing?  Thanks.
>>
>>David
>>    
>>
>
>Hi David - nice to see another UCD person using mapserver.
>
>I would recommend looking into QGIS , uDIg, PostGIS, or GRASS as a means 
>to 'edit' a shapefile. It could be that excel saved a slightly incompatible 
>DBF version -- I have had this happen numerous times. Check column names and 
>their data type. If  you have the patience to try PostGIS -- it is possible 
>to do nearly anything with the spatial and attribute data imported from a 
>shapefile -- and you can pull the data directly into mapserver! We use this 
>setup here for all of our mapserver applications.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Dylan
>
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