Labeling roads

[Stephen Woodbridge]

I create a separate ANNOTATION lay as Steve L suggests in his example to 
add the shields. You can also add a MINDISTANCE 200 to make sure no two 
shields with the same number are withing 200 pixels of one another.

-Steve W

Andre Schoonbee wrote:
> Thanks Steve, but may I be blond...
> 
> 
> In my layer definition, I have specified the line type as follows, - can I
> simply add the Style for the shield.png at the end of my 2 styles, or at
> what stage do I define the "Labeling symbol"?
> 
>  
> NAME "Roads"
>      STATUS ON
>      TYPE ANNOTATION
>      STATUS DEFAULT
> #     TYPE LINE
>      CONNECTIONTYPE postgis
>      CONNECTION "user=postgres password=postgres dbname=posgis_ascii
> host=localhost port=5432"
>      DATA "the_geom from roads"
> 
>      CLASSITEM "type" # field used by EXPRESSION in class objects
>     
>     # Begin classes for Freeways
>      CLASS
>        EXPRESSION ('[type]' = 'Freeway')
>        NAME "Freeways"
>        MAXSCALE 1000000
>        MINSCALE 500001
>        STYLE # Draw the outline
>          SYMBOL 'circle'
>          COLOR 0 0 0
>          SIZE 6
>        END
>        STYLE # Draw the center redline
>          SYMBOL 'circle'
>          COLOR 255 0 0
>          SIZE 4
>        END
>      END
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Andre
> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Steve Lime
> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 4:58 PM
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Labeling roads
> 
> Hi Andre: You use annotation layers. I think the demo shows this off. A
> layer
> would look like:
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME 'road_anno'
>   TYPE ANNOTATION
>   STATUS DEFAULT
>   DATA 'roads'
>   LABELITEM 'roadnum'
>   CLASS
>     STYLE
>       SYMBOL 'shield.png'
>     END
>     LABEL
>       COLOR 0 0 0
>       SIZE TINY
>     END
>   END
> END
> 
> Steve
> 
>>>> Andre Schoonbee <andresch at IWAY.NA> 11/05/07 8:32 AM >>>
> How can I label a road by using the state symbol and putting the road no on
> top of it?
> 
> Andre