NOT labelling certain features

[Stephen Woodbridge]

One more thing if you want to draw the objects but not label them then 
add the STYLE sections to the new CLASS but don't add the LABEL sections.

-Steve W.

Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> 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
>>
>>