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

[Brent Fraser]

Try using

CLASS
     TEXT '[LOCATION]'
     LABEL

instead of LABELITEM?

Best Regards,
Brent Fraser

On 2/13/2017 8:46 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> 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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