[mapserver-users] RE: Labeling issue mutli lines and precision

[Steve Lime]

Yup, but the text goes outside the column references, e.g. Land Value: [EMV_LAND_].

Steve

>>> On 3/26/2009 at 2:33 PM, in message
<D7A5EAC385604446AB1DD24BF4F5A9181E06947F2A at MG-Mail.ci.maple-grove.mn.us>, Jay
Kapalczynski <jkapalczynski at ci.maple-grove.mn.us> wrote:
> Fantastic....works...
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> Can I add actual text...
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> THANKS A MILLION....VERY APPRECIATED...
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> CODE:
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> TEXT (['Land Value:' EMV_LAND_]*[ 'Building Value:' EMV_BLDG_]*['Total 
> Value:'EMV_TOTAL_])  #label
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> Land Value: $45000
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> Building Value: $250000
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> Total Value: $295000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Lime [mailto:Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 2:26 PM
> To: Jay Kapalczynski; 'Mark Volz'; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org 
> Subject: [mapserver-users] RE: Labeling issue mutli lines and precision
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> Jay, the spaces in your TEXT expression are preserved, try removing them.
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> Steve
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>>>> On 3/26/2009 at 2:00 PM, in message
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> <D7A5EAC385604446AB1DD24BF4F5A9181E06947F28 at MG-Mail.ci.maple-grove.mn.us>, Jay
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> Kapalczynski <jkapalczynski at ci.maple-grove.mn.us> wrote:
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>> This works ..... BUT???....
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>> For some reason the 2nd and 3rd line seem indented a bit
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>>   19961001
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>> Do you know what could be causing this indent?
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>>        LAYER # Maple Grove Parcels
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>>            NAME Parcel_Labels
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>>            DATA './parcels.shp'
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>>            STATUS DEFAULT
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>>            TYPE annotation
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>>            MAXSCALE 2000
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>>            MINSCALE 100
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>>               LABELCACHE ON
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>>               CLASS
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>>                          TEXT ([YEAR_BUI_1] * [SALE_DATE] * [SALE_VAL_1])
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>> #label
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>>                            LABEL
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>>                                   COLOR 0 0 0
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>>                                   OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 128
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>>                                   WRAP "*" #select character to wrap on
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>>                            END #label
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>>               END #class
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>>         END # Maple Grove Parcels
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>> PRECISION:
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>> As for the Precision I have also done that on the query results....dont
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>> really know if or how I can use that in the Labeling....for now I just
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>> converted the test data.  But in a real world setting I am not going to be
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>> able to do that.  I will be reading live...
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>> If I have to I can created another database that has links and convert it
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>> there....but would rather bypass all that additional work...
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>> THANKS EVERYONE FOR YOUR HELP IT IS GREATLY APPRECIATED....
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
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>> [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mark Volz
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>> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:30 PM
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>> To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org 
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>> Subject: [mapserver-users] RE: Labeling issue mutli lines and precision
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>> I have multi line / field labels working:
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>> In this example I am stringing together both the name and the parcel id as a
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>>       NAME 'Parcels'
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>> I tried using precision in the query results, I have not tried it as part of
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>> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:57:39 -0500
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>> From: Jay Kapalczynski <jkapalczynski at ci.maple-grove.mn.us>
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>> Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Labeling
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>> Yea I can do that but then I have to build processes to do all the
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>> I have three labels I want to label.  Right now I am using an Offset to push
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>> I tried to combine all three into one map file but it only labels the first
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>> Can I combine these into one and still have them label on three different
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>> LABELITEM  'Value 1' & 'VALUE 2' & 'VALUE 3'
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>> From: Fawcett, David [mailto:David.Fawcett at state.mn.us] 
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>> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:38 AM
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>> To: Jay Kapalczynski; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org 
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>> Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Labeling
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>> It is always an option to create a string column and then populate it with
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>> [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jay
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>> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:14 AM
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>> Subject: [mapserver-users] Labeling
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>> Is there any way to eliminate the decimal places here...I looked online but
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>> The fields I am labeling are numeric...so I get this
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>> 3434.000000000000
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>> LAYER # Maple Grove Parcels
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>>                     NAME Parcel_Labels
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>>                     DATA './parcels.shp'
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>>                     STATUS DEFAULT
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>>                     MAXSCALE 2000
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>>                     LABELITEM 'EMV_LAND'
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>>                                 LABELCACHE ON
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>>                      CLASS
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>>                        COLOR -1 -1 -1
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>>                        LABEL
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>>                                 POSITION UC
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>>                                 TYPE TRUETYPE
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>>                                 FONT vera_sans
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>>                                 MAXSIZE 7
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>>                                 SIZE 7
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>>                                 OFFSET 0 10
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>>                                 MINSIZE 4
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>>                                 #ANTIALIAS TRUE
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>>                                 BUFFER 2
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>>                        END
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