[Mapserver-users] Display of text labels by type :FORCE TRUE trick??

[Stephen Clark]

David,

A better explanation is that I am trying to display the point sites by type.

Specifically, I want the point sites displayed in the following order

cities
towns,
localities

Where there a lot of labels of the "localities" I only want as many as there
is room for on the screen after the other point sites have been drawn.

Such as:
cities -- FORCE TRUE
towns -- FORCE TRUE
localities -- FORCE FALSE.

BUT I only want to use one shape file to do this...

thanks
Stephen



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Fawcett" <David.Fawcett at state.mn.us>
To: <stephen.clark at focus.ca>
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] Display of text labels by type


> Stephen,
>
> I am not quite sure what you are trying to do.  Do you wish to use
> different label styles for the different 'type' of minor civil division
> (city, twp, etc.)?
>
> If so, you could set up different CLASSs, with an expression on the
> 'type' field and each CLASS would have its own LABEL defined within.
>
> I may be completely oversimplifying your question though.
>
> David.
>
> David J. Fawcett
> MN Office of Environmental Assistance
>
> >>> "Stephen Clark" <stephen.clark at focus.ca> 1/22/2004 1:58:46 PM >>>
> Hello,
>
> I have a shape point file with names of point locations.
>
> Each point location has a type such as City, town, locality, etc.,
>
> How can I specify that the point is annotated by using the "type" of
> point
> feature?
>
> I have included a sample layer file as reference.
>
> thanks
> Stephen
>
>
>
> LAYER
>   NAME "bcgnis_pop_place"
>   STATUS OFF
>   DATA "d:/shp/NEBC_pop_place_name"
>   TYPE ANNOTATION
>   LABELITEM "NAME"
>   CLASS
>     COLOR 0 255 0
>     LABEL
>       MINFEATURESIZE 40
>       MINDISTANCE 150
>       POSITION CC
>       COLOR 0 255 0
>
>       FONT arial
>       TYPE truetype
>       SIZE 10
>       #FORCE TRUE
>     END
>   END
>
>
> END
>
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