[mapserver-users] Cant get polygon labels to show up

[Stephen Woodbridge]

As a Followup, I used a hex editor to change the column name to 
uppercase and that did not change anything so its not a case probelm as 
far as I can tell.

-SteveW

On 2/13/2017 10:32 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> On 2/13/2017 3:19 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote:
>> try lowercase “location” for the LABELITEM . . .
>
> Yeah, I tried that also. The tileindex file was created by gdaltindex
> and a hexdump on the .dbf does show it is lowercase. This is running on
> mapserver 7.0.4.
>
> I have tried everything I can think of at least twice but can't get it
> to label or throw any error message.
>
> I'm wondering if something in mapserver 7.0 changed in regards to
> matching shapefile DBF columns. At any rate I would expect some kind of
> error if there is a problem.
>
> I can provide the shapefile if someone is interested in checking it out.
> This one has me totally stumped.
>
> -Steve W
>
>> bobb
>>
>>
>>> On Feb 13, 2017, at 2:17 PM, Stephen Woodbridge
>>> <woodbri at swoodbridge.com <mailto:woodbri at swoodbridge.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a tileindex for a bunch of DOQQs and I would like to create a
>>> layer the displays there filenames and bboxes. I'm using the tileindex
>>> shapefile as my data source like with the layer definition below.
>>>
>>> The BBox polygon lines are showing up but I must be doing something
>>> stupid because I can not get the labels to display. And there are no
>>> errors in the log file.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>>    LAYER
>>>        NAME "doqq_bbox"
>>>        STATUS ON
>>>        TYPE POLYGON
>>>        DATA "ca_naip_2014_quads/doqq-tileindex"
>>>        PROJECTION "init=epsg:4326" END
>>>        LABELITEM "LOCATION"
>>>        PROCESSING "LABEL_NO_CLIP=ON"
>>>        CLASS
>>>            STYLE
>>>                OUTLINECOLOR "#ff0000"
>>>                WIDTH 0.5
>>>            END
>>>            LABEL
>>>                FONT "arial"
>>>                TYPE TRUETYPE
>>>                SIZE 14
>>>                WRAP '/'
>>>                ALIGN CENTER
>>>                POSITION CC
>>>                COLOR "#880000"
>>>                OUTLINECOLOR "#ffffff"
>>>                OUTLINEWIDTH 3
>>>                PARTIALS TRUE
>>>                FORCE TRUE
>>>            END
>>>        END
>>>    END
>>>
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>>
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