[ka-Map-users] Street names on my maps
Clark Endrizzi
cendrizzi at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 11:53:06 EST 2006
Thanks a ton for your help guys. I'll try to implement that!
On 2/8/06, Tim Schaub <tim.schaub at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
--
-Clark Endrizzi
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