How can I label a Point using different postgis table

[Luis Treviño Huerta]

Thanks Aaron, I choose option number 2 and included a JOIN statement like this:
DATA "posicion from (select loca.cmpoid, loca.mo, loca.posicion, autos.placas as placa from loca inner join autos on loca.idunit = autos.idunit where %uad%) as foo using unique cmpoid using srid=4326"

the %uad% is for filtering purposes.

works OK

Regards,
Luis
----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Aaron Koning 
  To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU 
  Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 3:24 PM
  Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] How can I label a Point using different postgis table


  I believe you have two options here:

  1. Create a database view that joins the two tables and set your DATA variable to that view.
            OR
  2. Modify the DATA variable to include a JOIN statement.

  Aaron 


  On 6/19/06, Luis Treviño Huerta <ltrevino at gpobsi.com.mx> wrote:
    Hi list:

    I'm currenttly using a point layer that displays some GPS points that are
    stored on a postgis table called "loca". I'd like to label this points with
    data that comes from another table in the same postgis data base (this table 
    is named "autos"), both tables share a common column named "idunit" and I
    would like to use autos.idunit as a label. How can I do this?. This is part
    of my map file:

    LAYER
       NAME gis 
       STATUS ON
       TYPE POINT
       UNITS METERS

       DEBUG ON
       CONNECTION "user=XXX password=XXXXX dbname=bsiubica host=XXX.XXX.XXX.XX
    port=5432"
       CONNECTIONTYPE postgis
       DATA "posicion from loca as foo using unique cmpoid using srid=4326" 

       PROJECTION
          "proj=longlat"
          "ellps=WGS84"
         "datum=WGS84"
       END

      FILTER 'idunit = %unid%'

       CLASS
         EXPRESSION ('[mo]' = '1')
         COLOR 255 255 26  #amarillo 
         SYMBOL 7
         SIZE 13
       END
    END

    regards,
    Luis




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