[Mapserver-users] help with annotations

[Matt Doggett]

Someone else had suggested this same technique, and I've seen it in the
documentation. But where do the values [FIRSTNAME] [LASTNAME] come from?
My guess is that they are attribute 'columns' in the shape file.  But
here's the problem.  My shape object is created dynamically with
Php/Mapscript (from a query to a postgres database).  I see that the
ShapeObj class has the values array but apparently it is read-only so
that I cannot dynamically create the data columns
([TEMP],[DEWPT],[WIND], etc) that this method would require.  This
problem is off topic but are there any suggestions?

md

>-----Original Message-----
>From: mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu [mailto:mapserver-users-
>admin at lists.gis.umn.edu] On Behalf Of Lowell Filak
>Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 1:04 PM
>To: Matt Doggett; 'Tyler Mitchell'; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>Subject: RE: [Mapserver-users] help with annotations
>
>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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