[mapserver-users] mapfile: displaying a feature from a shapefile.

[Christy Nieman]

Hi,

As already mentioned, what is missing is the LABELITEM in your layer 
definition.  Without this, MapServer will not know what attribute to use 
for labelling.  Your layer should look something like this:

# Road tracks
LAYER
    NAME 'mytown'
    TYPE LINE
    DATA '/var/www/manual/examples/mytown/data/mytown.shp'
*    LABELITEM "road_name"*
    METADATA
      'wms_title' 'mytown'
	  'gml_include_items' 'all'
    END
	DUMP TRUE
    STATUS DEFAULT
    TRANSPARENCY 80
    PROJECTION
      'proj=longlat'
      'ellps=WGS84'
      'datum=WGS84'
      'no_defs'
      ''
    END

  CLASS
    STYLE
      COLOR 102 0 0
      SIZE 2
      SYMBOL "line_solid"
    END
    STYLE
      COLOR 204 51 51
      SIZE 1
      SYMBOL "line_solid"
    END
    LABEL
      TYPE truetype
      FONT "PerspectiveBlack"
      SIZE 11
    END
  END
END


Best regards,
Christy

-- 
Christy Nieman
GIS Technician
DM Solutions Group, Inc.
Email: cnieman at dmsolutions.ca
Web: http://dmsolutions.ca
Web: http://research.dmsolutions.ca

kende wrote:
> Hi Jukka,
>
> Thank you for your reply, I did RTFM before posting my question, and tried
> LABELITEM (that was one of the several 'ways' quote in my original post),
> also tried a separate layer for just the road names (separate and grouped),
> and may other things, and none seemed to work, I didn't want to add too much
> clutter
> to my post, and my mapfile went through a lot of 'revisions/versions'.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Looks like there is no LABELITEM set on layer descriptions.  Document "An
> introduction to MapServer" (http://www.mapserver.org/introduction.html) does
> mention LABELITEM but that part of text is messy.  Perhaps it should be
> reviewed.
>
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
>
>
>
>   

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