[Mapserver-users] Another TAB files problem

[Jeff McKenna]

Ernesto,

You need a LABEL object to display the street names.  I think you would 
use "Street" as your LABELITEM to tell mapserver which field to use for 
your labels. Here's an example of a layer showing labelled city points:


LAYER
   NAME Communities
   TYPE POINT
   STATUS DEFAULT
   CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
   CONNECTION "data/base/places.TAB"
   LABELITEM "Name"
   CLASS
     NAME "Communities"
     SYMBOL "mapinfo-sym-33"
     COLOR 0 0 0
     SIZE 6
     LABEL
       FONT "fritqat-italic"
       TYPE TRUETYPE
       COLOR 0 0 0
       SIZE 10
       POSITION auto
     END
   END
END # Layer

jeff



Ernesto Vega wrote:
> Hi. I have a Mapserver installation running on linux and i have a tab file
> to describe my unique layer, named "muestra".
> 
> ogrinfo tells me that the geometry for layer muestra( the one named before)
> is "Line String". I was able to get the extents for my Map file definition.
> 
> Also, defining my layer muestra, as type of vector or type of line, and
> defining a class named "Calle", mapserver renders the image but not the
> street names,
> as describe by ogrinfo, that  shows records like this one:
> 
> ###########################
> 
> OGRFeature(muestra):2
>   Street (String) = STO DOMINGO   <------  Don't know how to define this
>   FromLeft (Integer) = 1097
>   ToLeft (Integer) = 1019
>   FromRight (Integer) = 1088
>   ToRight (Integer) = 1022
>   DIG (Integer) = 0
>   Class (String) = CALLE
>   direccion (Integer) = 0
>   Style = PEN(w:1px,c:#000000,id:"mapinfo-pen-130.ogr-pen-0")
>   LINESTRING (-70.65271000 -33.43634800,-70.65134200 -33.43619400)
> 
> #########################
> 
> 
> my layer definition is this:
> 
> #############
> 
> LAYER
> 
>   NAME muestra
>   TYPE VECTOR
>   STATUS ON
>   CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
>   CONNECTION "all/muestra.TAB"
>   DEBUG ON
>   CLASS
>     NAME "Calle"
>     DEBUG ON
>     COLOR 79 53 181
>   END
> 
> END # Layer
> 
> #########
> 
> 
> any ideas why ???
> 
> Ernesto Vega
> 
> 
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-- 
Jeff McKenna
GIS Specialist
DM Solutions Group Inc.
http://www.dmsolutions.ca