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<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Hi,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm new to
mapserver.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm trying to create
a layer that will display annotation.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have label.shp
label.shx and label.dbf files. label.shp contains point objects, and label.dbf
has a "TEXT" field that stores the text and ID that allows me to identify the
text objects. I tried doing something like this in my map
file:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial
size=2>LAYER</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial size=2> NAME
label</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial size=2> DATA
label</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial size=2> TYPE
ANNOTATION</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial size=2> LABELITEM
"TEXT"</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial size=2> CLASSITEM
"ID"</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial
size=2> CLASS</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial size=2>
EXPRESSION "1" # object ID=1 will have black
text</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial size=2> COLOR 0
0 0</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial
size=2> END</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial
size=2>END</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial size=2>
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial size=2>I thought this will
display the text...but it doesn't. All I need is to display the annotation at
the coordinates specified in label.shp (a point object file)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can someone please
help?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks in
advance.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial
size=2>--</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=483051417-29092000><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yee
Wen</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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