[mapserver-users] Icon as Inline feature (Annotation layer)

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Sacha,

You nned to add a color to the CLASS so it will render. COLOR 0 0 0
will work fine as and it is not used but mapserv will not runder the 
layer without a COLOR tag.

-Steve W

Sacha Black wrote:
> hi,
> 
> is use of a PIXMAP icon as an inline feature possible? I just want to
> drop an icon in the center of my map.
> 
> I thought that something like the below would work, but I don't seem
> to get anything to draw (in the middle of a 500x500 image). Am I
> missing something very basic, or is this just a wrong idea?
> 
> sacha
> 
> 
> -----fwd---------->
> 
> Symbol
>    name 'red_star'
>     TYPE PIXMAP
>     IMAGE  "symbols\star.gif"
> end
> 
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME  my_star
>   TYPE  annotation
>   STATUS ON
>   TRANSFORM  false
>   FEATURE
>     POINTS 250 250 END
>     TEXT ' '
>   END
> CLASS
>   STYLE
>    SYMBOL 'red_star'
>   END
>   LABEL
>     TYPE TRUETYPE
>     FONT Sans
>     SIZE 8
>     COLOR 0 0 255
>     OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
>     POSITION  UR
>   END
> END
> END
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