[ka-Map-users] Street names on my maps

[Tim Schaub]

Hey Clark-

>Can anyone give me a heads up on how to do street names?  

You can add LABEL objects to any CLASS object within any of your layers.  In
ka-Map, if you want your annotation to show up on top of all other grouped
layers, you're best off creating a layer of TYPE ANNOTATION and putting that
in a group on the bottom of your mapfile (last to draw).

I've pasted a sample annotation layer below.  This is from a roads shapefile
with a "SYMBOL" field that defines classes and a "NAME" field that contains
street names.  It uses the "verdana" font that is defined in my font list.

For details on the LABEL object, see
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/mapfile/label

Hope it helps,
Tim

LAYER
    NAME "Roads"
    TYPE ANNOTATION
    STATUS ON
    TEMPLATE "no template"
    TOLERANCE 7
    DATA "path/to/data"
    LABELITEM "NAME"
    CLASSITEM "SYMBOL"
    CLASS
        EXPRESSION "1"
        NAME "US Highway"
        LABEL
            TYPE TRUETYPE
            FONT "verdana"
            ANGLE AUTO
            PARTIALS FALSE
            POSITION UC
            SIZE 7
            BUFFER 25
            MINDISTANCE 250
            COLOR 20 20 80
            OUTLINECOLOR 200 200 180
        END
    END
    CLASS
        EXPRESSION "2"
        NAME "State Route"
        LABEL
            TYPE TRUETYPE
            FONT "verdana"
            ANGLE AUTO
            PARTIALS FALSE
            POSITION UC
            SIZE 7
            BUFFER 25
            MINDISTANCE 250
            COLOR 20 20 80
            OUTLINECOLOR 200 200 180
        END
    END
    CLASS
        EXPRESSION "3"
        NAME "Major Arterial"
        LABEL
            TYPE TRUETYPE
            FONT "verdana"
            ANGLE AUTO
            PARTIALS FALSE
            POSITION UC
            SIZE 7
            BUFFER 25
            MINDISTANCE 250
            COLOR 20 20 80
            OUTLINECOLOR 200 200 180
        END
    END
END