Labels in 5.0 was: Can I export MapInfo "styleitem" info to PostGIS?

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Richard,

the field definition might be case sensitive so it would like be:

LABEL [NAME]    # for shapefiles
LABEL [name]    # for postgres

And your guess is as good as mine for the rest.

-Steve W

Richard Greenwood wrote:
> On 10/10/07, Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
> 
>> That is the reason why LABELITEM, ANGLEITEM, etc were dropped in 5.0.
>> e.g. LABELITEM was replaced by "LABEL [mylabelitem]", etc.
> 
> The above doesn't work for me. My layer definition is:
> 
> LAYER
>    NAME "water"
>    STATUS ON
>    DATA "Hydro/Water"
>    TYPE LINE
>    #LABELITEM "Name"
>    LABEL [Name]
>    LABELMAXSCALE 50000
>    CLASS
>       COLOR 0 0 255
>       SYMBOL 'solid'
>       SIZE 1
>       LABEL
>          ANGLE AUTO
>          TYPE truetype
>          antialias true
>          POSITION CC
>          SIZE 8
>          COLOR 0 0 255
>          FONT arial
>          OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
>       END # label
>    END # class
> END # water layer
> 
> Am I putting LABEL [Name] in the wrong place?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rich
>