Showing some text in a layer

Aaron Craig mercutio at POBOX.COM
Tue Jan 25 05:51:39 EST 2005


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In my mapfile, I've defined a layer:

LAYER
        TYPE LINE
        STATUS DEFAULT
        NAME "museum_label"

        CONNECTION 'user=postgres dbname=postgis_sardegna'
        CONNECTIONTYPE POSTGIS
        DATA 'point_geom from museum'

        LABELITEM "name"
        CLASS
~               LABEL
~                       COLOR 0 0 0
~                       TYPE TRUETYPE
~                       FONT arial
~                       SIZE 10
~                       ANTIALIAS TRUE
~                       POSITION CC
~                       PARTIALS FALSE
~                       MINDISTANCE 10
~                       BUFFER 1
                END # end of label
        END
END

The museum table looks like:
postgis_sardegna=# \d museum
~              Table "public.museum"
~   Column   |          Type          | Modifiers
- ------------+------------------------+-----------
~ id         | integer                |
~ name       | character varying(255) |
~ xdb_id     | integer                |
~ point_geom | geometry               |
Check constraints:
~    "enforce_srid_point_geom" CHECK (srid(point_geom) = -1)
~    "enforce_geotype_point_geom" CHECK (geometrytype(point_geom) =
'POINT'::text OR point_geom IS NULL)

But the layer does not display.  In the mapfile, it is the last layer to
be declared, so it should be rendered last (on top), correct?

Another layer that shows labels does work.  The syntax for the layer is
the same, leading me to believe that my mapfile syntax is ok.  The
working layer's underlying table's geometry column is MULTIPOLYGON
instead of POINT.  Could that be the problem?

Thanks.

- --
Aaron Craig
mercutio at pobox.com

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