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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks Dave and Dan,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Pretty much both of you are kind of
getting at the same ideas I had. I guess I asked in an ambiguous way because it
doesn’t pertain to a specific situation. The point layer specific for labeling
I think it the way I’ll have to go but David did touch on something
interesting that I wasn’t sure you could do:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>On your first suggestion, are you saying I
could create a point feature and label it using ‘TEXT’? If so, can
I do this without having the point be visible? Then you mention I could use an
annotation type layer instead. Does the same apply as far as being able to
specify x and y cords and use a ‘TEXT’ clock to label? If so then
that is an interesting feature!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
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color:windowtext'> Fawcett, David [mailto:David.Fawcett@state.mn.us] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, October 31, 2008
1:18 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Daniel Degasperi; Nelson Soto<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b>
mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [mapserver-users]
Labelling</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>It isn't exactly clear to me what you are
trying to accomplish Nelson. I see two possibilities:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>a. If you want to create a
label that is independent from the features in your data set, you can
create a class with an inline feature, setting the x and y coords, and
using 'text' to specify what the label text should be. You could
even create this labeled feature on the fly by passing this info in as a URL
configuration. If you just want to show the label, you could do this in
an annotation layer instead of a point/poly/line layer. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>b. If you want to specify label
points for your a point/poly/line layer, you could create a point dataset of
your label points and then use that as the basis of an annotation layer </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>With either of these methods, you could
either specify the label position to a fixed location, like the center, or
upper left position, or you could use auto and let MapServer find the best
position for it.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>David. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b>
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[mailto:mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Daniel Degasperi<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, October 31, 2008
11:07 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Nelson Soto<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b>
mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [mapserver-users]
Labelling</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hi,<br>
<br>
you can't give some coordinates to your label. I solved the problem by creating
a point layer.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Nelson Soto schrieb: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Is it possible to create a label and position it with
given coordinates? If I do not like the positioning of the labels, can I in any
way specify my own?<O:P></O:P></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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