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[Arnulf Christl]

Leopold Schefcik (MULTIMEDIAPLAN.AT) wrote:
> hi list, 
> 
> how can I get a signature (e.g. for streets) in my map?
> 
> best regards, 
> Leopold

Probably you would want to use the label object to do that.
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc46/mapfile-reference.html#label

(There is also a German version to read up on:
http://www.umn-mapserver.de/doc44/mapfile-reference44.html#label)

Labels can be positioned automatically or explicitly. For street maps 
ideally you have a line geometry with an attribute that contains the 
text to display. The angle of the text can either be defined using an 
explicit field specified in the LABELANGLEITEM parameter. If ANGLE is 
set to AUTO MapServer will render the streetnames with the inclination 
of the line feature. AUTO is valid for LINE layers only.

This is a snippet from a MAP file

[...]
    TYPE ANNOTATION
    ...
    CLASSITEM zvs_code

    LABELITEM label_text
    # choose one:
    # ANGLE [double]
    # ANGLE AUTO
    # LABELANGLEITEM label_rotation
    SYMBOLSCALE 2000

    CLASS
       NAME "BAB"
       EXPRESSION /1/
       MINSCALE 0
       MAXSCALE 15000
       LABEL
         TYPE TRUETYPE
         COLOR 0 0 0
         FONT "arialnarrow"
         POSITION AUTO  # depends on selection above
         PARTIALS FALSE
         FORCE TRUE
         MINDISTANCE -1
         SIZE 34
       END
    END

    CLASS
       NAME "Landesstr."
       EXPRESSION /2/
       MINSCALE 0
       MAXSCALE 15000
       LABEL
         TYPE TRUETYPE
         COLOR 0 0 0
         FONT "arialnarrow"
         POSITION uc
         PARTIALS FALSE
         FORCE TRUE
         MINDISTANCE -1
         SIZE 28
       END
    END
[...]

Best,
Arnulf