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Ok so I want to stick this code into the .map file... where should it be placed in the section that i bolded?<BR> <BR>LABEL<br>  COLOR 255 255 255<br>  FONT "arial"<br>  TYPE "truetype"<br>  SIZE 10<br>  ANGLE 0<br>  POSITION cc<br>  FORCE false<br>  ANTIALIAS false<br>  PARTIALS false<br>     END <br><br>Thanks,<BR>Mark<BR><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: David.Fawcett@state.mn.us<br>To: mmirrlees@hotmail.com; mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<br>Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] label issues...<br>Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:51:42 +0000<br><br>



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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Mark,
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>You will want to add a LABEL block to your mapfile. 
<a href="http://mapserver.org/mapfile/label.html" target="_blank">http://mapserver.org/mapfile/label.html</a></span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>I would also comment out the maxscale until you get the labels working.</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>David.</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>From:</span></b><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark Mirrlees<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 18, 2013 2:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [mapserver-users] label issues...</span></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>Hi all,<br>
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Ok so now I have a new problem with the labeling.<br>
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I would like to get my labels to start showing up at a scale of 1:1000000 but nothing is working...<br>
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here is a snippet of my mapfile...<br>
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<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>  LAYER</span></strong><b><br>
<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>    NAME 'mjcities'</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>    TYPE POINT</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>    DUMP false</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>  EXTENT -143.210462 39.001401 -50.461045 85.911094</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>    DATA '../data/mjcities.shp'</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>    METADATA</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>      'ows_title' 'mjcities'</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>    END</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>    STATUS default</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'> MAXSCALE 1000000</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'> TRANSPARENCY 100</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'> CLASSITEM 'NAME'</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>  LABELITEM 'NAME'</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'> PROJECTION</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>    'proj=longlat'</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>    'datum=WGS84'</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>    'no_defs'</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>    END</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>    CLASS</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>    NAME 'mjcities' </span>
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<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>       STYLE</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>         SYMBOL "circle" </span>
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<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>         SIZE 15.0 </span>
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<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>         OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>         COLOR 182 109 194</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";'>       END</span></strong></b><br>
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Thanks,<br>
Mark<br>
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