[mapserver-users] label issues...

Mark Mirrlees mmirrlees at hotmail.com
Tue Mar 19 15:02:18 PDT 2013


Hi Steve, Thanks for yor help! I managed to figure it out what I needed to do to make changes to the different font etc, and the main thing was I forgot to put "LABELNAME" near the top of the code as now it works! Mark

 
 > Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:21:04 -0400
> From: woodbri at swoodbridge.com
> To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] label issues...
> 
> So you want you labels to be white?
> 
> What color is your background?
> 
> Do you have a FONTSET "fonts.txt" that maps arial to a font. I assume 
> you probably do as it is not throwing an error about it.
> 
> Also you can get some debug info if you add to the MAP section:
> 
> CONFIG MS_ERRORFILE "stderr"
> DEBUG 5
> 
> Then when you render you map look in the apache error.log file. Or try 
> it with:
> 
> shp2img -m mymapfile.map -o image.png
> 
> There are lots of other parameters, but that should be enough to get 
> some output.
> 
> -Steve
> 
> On 3/18/2013 5:30 PM, Mark Mirrlees wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Ok so I have revised the mapfile to this...
> >
> >    LAYER
> >      NAME 'mjcities'
> >      TYPE POINT
> >      DUMP false
> >    EXTENT -143.210462 39.001401 -50.461045 85.911094
> >      DATA '../data/mjcities.shp'
> >      METADATA
> >        'ows_title' 'mjcities'
> >      END
> >      STATUS default
> >   MAXSCALEDENOM 1000000
> >      TRANSPARENCY 100
> >      PROJECTION
> >      'proj=longlat'
> >      'datum=WGS84'
> >      'no_defs'
> >      END
> >      CLASS
> >      NAME 'mjcities'
> >         STYLE
> >           SYMBOL "circle"
> >           SIZE 15.0
> >           OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
> >           COLOR 182 109 194
> >         END
> >     LABEL
> >     COLOR 255 255 255
> >     FONT "arial"
> >     TYPE truetype
> >     SIZE 10
> >     ANGLE 0
> >     POSITION cc
> >     FORCE false
> >     PARTIALS false
> >     END
> >
> > But when I zoom into my layers I see the symbols that were created but
> > the labels still don't show up...any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks for the help everyone as I do appreciate it!
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
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