Callout Issue

[Stephen Woodbridge]

riteshambastha wrote:
> Dear Readers,
> 
> Please let us know how to place a callout describing a marked point in the
> map. 
> The marked point can be well placed using a pushpin/balloon on the map. 
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> 
> Regards,
> Ritesh Ambastha


Ritesh,

Are you thinking of something like the balloon callout on Google maps?

This is usually done in the client software separate from mapserver. You 
might want to look at OpenLayers as a javascript client library that can 
use mapserver on the server side to generate the map images.

-Steve W