NOT labelling certain features

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Mike,

Try adding the following to your mapfile. You may have to tweak the 
regex a little.

-Steve W.

Mike Saunt wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I've got a layer of roads where the description of various roads starts 
> "REAR OF" or "ACCESS TO".   I want to be able to label all roads that 
> DON'T start with these terms as these are insignificant roads to label.  
> I'm a bit unsure of the Filter / Expression to achieve this. 
> 
> Any help appreciated!
> 
>     LAYER
>         NAME MinorRoads
>         TYPE LINE
>         STATUS DEFAULT
>         CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
>         CONNECTION "astun\MINORROADS.TAB"
>         MAXSCALE 60000
>         MINSCALE 10000
>         LABELMAXSCALE 50000
>         LABELITEM "DESCRIPTION"
>         TRANSPARENCY ALPHA    # so anti aliasing lines works
>         CLASSITEM "DESCRIPTION"
           CLASS
               NAME "Noop"
               EXPRESSION /^(REAR OF|ACCESS TO)/
               # catch them here and do nothing with them
           END
>         CLASS
>             NAME "Streets"
>             STYLE
>                 COLOR 192 192 192
>                 SYMBOL 'continue'
>                 SIZE 5
>                 ANTIALIAS TRUE
>             END
>             STYLE
>                 COLOR 255 255 255
>                 SYMBOL 'continue'
>                 SIZE 3
>                 ANTIALIAS TRUE
>             END
>             LABEL
>                 FONT "arial"
>                 TYPE TRUETYPE
>                 ANTIALIAS TRUE
>                 COLOR 40 40 40
>                 OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
>                 SIZE 7
>                 POSITION AUTO
>                 PARTIALS FALSE
>                 BUFFER 4
>                 ANGLE AUTO
>             END
>         END
>     END
> 
> Cheers
> Mike
> 
>