[mapserver-users] attach text to displayed features that are comingfrom postgis

[Steve Lime]

Check out the LABELITEM property for a layer. You'll also need to define a LABEL for your class.

Steve

>>> On 8/18/2008 at 11:17 AM, in message
<fa2ac0580808180917h484b2524h58141eb88f6480a8 at mail.gmail.com>, "John Mitchell"
<mitchelljj98 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to be able to attach text to displayed features that are coming
> from postgis.  Currently I am just displaying points (layer displayed below)
> as an ellipse from postgis, but I would like to have text on top of each
> ellipse based on the contents of a field uniquely associated to each point.
> 
> John
> 
>  LAYER
>   # name of layer
>   NAME "gv:tasmania_cities"
>   GROUP "Collaboration"
> 
>   # what type of data is this?
>   TYPE POINT
> 
>   # always returned with interface
>   STATUS ON
> 
>   TRANSPARENCY 100
> 
>   CONNECTIONTYPE postgis
> 
>   CONNECTION "user=postgres dbname=gvdb host=localhost port=5432
> password=password1117"
>   DATA "the_geom from tasmania_cities"
> 
> 
>   CLASS
>     STYLE
>         symbol "dot"
>         SIZE 8
>           COLOR 0 0 0
>     END
>    END
>  END
>