Labelling highways

[Steve Pashby]

Bird, Derek (xwave <Derek.Bird <at> XWAVE.COM> writes:

> 
> Why don't you include your layer code then we can try to help a bit more ...
> 
> Derek
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS <at> LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Steve Pashby
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 2:18 AM
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS <at> LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Labelling highways
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> I'm trying to label some roads with a highway sign and then overlay their
> respective number.  However, for some reason i either label the entire road
> with highway signs or just get the highway number ! 
> 
> I guess it has something to do with defining a 'highway sign' SYMBOL and
> then using that in the LAYER definition ?
> 
> ... Any help will be greatly appreciated !
> 
> Cheers,
> Steve.
> 
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I think my layer code is all over the place ... but here goes
 
FONTSET "/ms4w/apps/etc/fontset.txt"

(... points to an ESRI truetype font)

################################################
# highway symbol

SYMBOL
    NAME "U.S Route 1"
    TYPE truetype
    FONT esri_44
    CHARACTER '@#162'
END
###############################################
# fat line symbol

SYMBOL
   NAME "BigLine"
   TYPE ELLIPSE
   POINTS 1 1 END
END

#################################################
# highways

LAYER
   NAME "highways"
   STATUS on
   TYPE line
   DATA "digitised_highways"
   PROJECTION
      "init=epsg:28350"
   END
   
   LABELCACHE on
   LABELITEM "HWY_NO"
   
   CLASS
      NAME "Highways"
      STYLE
         SYMBOL "BigLine"
         SIZE 2
         COLOR 240 110 110
      END
      LABEL
         TYPE truetype
         FONT "arial"
	 SIZE 12
	 COLOR 255 0 0 
      END
      STYLE
         SYMBOL "U.S Route 1" # or esri_44 ???
         SIZE 10
         COLOR 0 0 230
         OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
      END
   END
END

Hope someone can make sense of this.

Thankyou.

Cheers, 
Steve.