[Mapserver-users] help with annotations

[Lowell Filak]

You can specify multiple 'text' attributes for the class, ie.
([FIRSTNAME],[LASTNAME]) .
Lowell

The following message was sent by "Matt Doggett"
<mdoggett at coas.oregonstate.edu> on Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:36:53 -0700.

> Well, I have a single point layer that contains weather station data.  I
> currently have it so that the label (actually the 'text' attribute of
> the shape object) contains the station identifier. In addition to this,
> I also would like to be able to display one, some, all of additional
> data like temp, dewpt, winds, etc.
> None of the responses so far has suggested annotations so maybe that's
> not the direction I need to be going.
> 
> matt
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu [mailto:mapserver-users-
> >admin at lists.gis.umn.edu] On Behalf Of Tyler Mitchell
> >Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 11:18 AM
> >To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> >Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] help with annotations
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Do you just want to create labels that use more than one line (i.e.
> >multi-line labels) and use more than one attribute?  Are you already
> >displaying labels okay?  You can do all this using similar methodology
> as
> >far as I know.   Maybe give us a short example of what you are already
> >doing and how you'd like that to change.
> >
> >Tyler
> >
> >mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu wrote on 09/22/2003 10:45:36
> AM:
> >
> >> I have some point data where I want to display more than one data
> value
> >in
> >> the labels at each data point (eg. Temperature, windspeed, dewpt,
> etc).
> >How
> >> would I do this?  I'm thinking that this would involve annotation
> layers
> >but
> >> I can't find any documentation that says exactly what they are or how
> to
> >use
> >> them.  Can anyone shed some light on how to use annotation layers?
> I'm
> >> using PHP/Mapscript if that helps.
> >>
> >> TIA,
> >>
> >> Matt
> >>
> >> Matt Doggett
> >> Spatial Climate Analysis Service
> >> Oregon State University
> >> 316 Strand Ag Hall
> >> Corvallis, OR 97331
> >> (541)737-9153
> >> mdoggett at coas.oregonstate.edu
> >>
> >>
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> >
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