[mapserver-users] Question re: city points layers and markers

Stephen Woodbridge woodbri at swoodbridge.com
Tue Feb 17 10:17:32 PST 2009


Gregory Collins wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Sorry if this question has an answer in the existing documentation but
> I've been struggling for days and can't find a solution.
> 
> I'm trying to render a city points layer on a regional-level map. I want
> point markers to be placed for all of the cities which are important
> enough to get labels, but no markers for unlabeled cities.
> 
> If I use a layer of type "point", I get markers for all of the points,
> which I don't want. The documentation says that for annotation layers,
> "Annotation means that a label point will be calculated for the
> features, but the feature itself will not be drawn although a marker
> symbol can be optionally drawn", but I can't seem to get it to draw the
> markers.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> G.

It would probably help if you show the LAYER definition from your mapfile.

-Steve W



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