[mapserver-users] Icon as Inline feature (Annotation layer)

[Sacha Black]

thanks Steve - that did the trick.

sb

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Stephen Woodbridge
<woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:
> Sacha,
>
>  You nned to add a color to the CLASS so it will render. COLOR 0 0 0
>  will work fine as and it is not used but mapserv will not runder the
>  layer without a COLOR tag.
>
>  -Steve W
>
>
>
>  Sacha Black wrote:
>  > hi,
>  >
>  > is use of a PIXMAP icon as an inline feature possible? I just want to
>  > drop an icon in the center of my map.
>  >
>  > I thought that something like the below would work, but I don't seem
>  > to get anything to draw (in the middle of a 500x500 image). Am I
>  > missing something very basic, or is this just a wrong idea?
>  >
>  > sacha
>  >
>  >
>  > -----fwd---------->
>  >
>  > Symbol
>  >    name 'red_star'
>  >     TYPE PIXMAP
>  >     IMAGE  "symbols\star.gif"
>  > end
>  >
>  >
>  > LAYER
>  >   NAME  my_star
>  >   TYPE  annotation
>  >   STATUS ON
>  >   TRANSFORM  false
>  >   FEATURE
>  >     POINTS 250 250 END
>  >     TEXT ' '
>  >   END
>  > CLASS
>  >   STYLE
>  >    SYMBOL 'red_star'
>  >   END
>  >   LABEL
>  >     TYPE TRUETYPE
>  >     FONT Sans
>  >     SIZE 8
>  >     COLOR 0 0 255
>  >     OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
>  >     POSITION  UR
>  >   END
>  > END
>  > END
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