[mapserver-users] OGR - ArcInfo Coverage Help

[Matthew Archer]

Hi Frank,

It wasn't me who had the bridge cover!  How do i get hold of ogrinfo as a 
windows binary (Winnt)?

/Matthew

At 08:38 2002-08-09 -0400, you wrote:
>Matthew Archer wrote:
>
>>
>>Using the following syntax with TYPE=Annotation and with a LABELITEM:
>>
>>LAYER
>>   NAME anno15
>>   TYPE ANNOTATION
>>   CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
>>   CONNECTION "C:\apache\htdocs\gt2\data\anno15b,0"
>>   STATUS default
>>   LABELITEM "NAME"
>>   CLASS
>>     COLOR 0 0 0
>>   END
>>END
>>
>>MapServer gives the error:
>>msOGRLayerInitItemInfo(): OGR error. Invalid Field name: NAME
>>I have tried both NAME,name,Name without success
>Matthew,
>
>The above looks like it should work.  Did you get display of annotation
>from your "igds" layer from the bridges coverage to work?  I see that
>in that one the text came through with the attribute name "Text" in ogrinfo.
>
>How does the anno15b coverage look in ogrinfo?  Are you sure you have
>the layer index?
>
>BTW, the error does indeed mean that the field name isn't found by OGR.
>
>The following is a layer definition I used with an Arc/Info annotation 
>coverage:
>
>LAYER
>  NAME "text"
>  TYPE ANNOTATION
>  CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
>  CONNECTION 'lignum/fc_labels,2'
>  STATUS ON
>  LABELITEM "Text"
>  CLASSITEM "Level"
>  CLASS
>    NAME "test1"
>    COLOR 255 0 0
>    LABEL
>      SIZE 16
>      ANTIALIAS FALSE
>      FORCE TRUE
>      COLOR 0 255 0
>      FONT "default"
>      TYPE TRUETYPE
>    END
>  END
>END
>
>Best regards,
>
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