white text under color text

[Eric Bridger]

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 10:59, Kristjan Annus wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have seen in various samples that text labels i.e. street names are drawn
> with black characters witch are placed on top of a little bit bigger white
> characters - it makes text much better to read especialy on ortophotos.
> Does anybody know how it is done?

In your mapfile LABEL section add something like:

 SHADOWCOLOR 200 200 200
 SHADOWSIZE 1 1