Label the states on a map

[Gary Watry]

In the mapfile

## U.S. States Layers
#
LAYER
   NAME "states"
   DATA	"d:\mapdata\boundaries/statesp030"
   STATUS default
   TYPE Polygon
   MINSCALE 4000000
   LABELCACHE on
   CLASS
      NAME 'U.S. States'  
      STYLE
         OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
         COLOR 242 245 181
      END
   END
END

LAYER
   NAME "states"
   DATA	"d:\mapdata\boundaries/statesp020"
   STATUS default
   TYPE annotation
   LABELCACHE on
   LABELITEM "STATE"
   LABELMINSCALE 4000000
   CLASSITEM "FEATURE"
   CLASS
      LABEL
         TYPE truetype
         FONT 'arial'
         SIZE 8
         OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
         COLOR 255 0 0
         MINDISTANCE 500
      END
   END
END
______________________________________________________________
Gary L. Watry

GIS Coordinator
Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies
FSU / COAPS
Johnson Building, RM 215
2035 East Paul Dirac Drive
Tallahassee, Florida 32306-2840
 
E-Mail: watry at coaps.fsu.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu] On
Behalf Of Stephen Woodbridge
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 2:56 PM
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Label the states on a map

krishna S wrote:
> Hello all,
>       Can anyone please tell me how to label a Map with state names on it.
> I guess it will be done in a mapfile right, but i am not sure how to do
it.
> 
> Thanks in advance ......
> 

Try adding a LABEL block to you state polygon layer.

-Steve W.