Thanks a ton for your help guys. I'll try to implement that!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tim Schaub</b> <<a href="mailto:tim.schaub@gmail.com">tim.schaub@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hey Clark-<br><br>>Can anyone give me a heads up on how to do street names?<br><br>
You can add LABEL objects to any CLASS object within any of your layers. In<br>ka-Map, if you want your annotation to show up on top of all other grouped<br>layers, you're best off creating a layer of TYPE ANNOTATION and putting that
<br>in a group on the bottom of your mapfile (last to draw).<br><br>I've pasted a sample annotation layer below. This is from a roads shapefile<br>with a "SYMBOL" field that defines classes and a "NAME" field that contains
<br>street names. It uses the "verdana" font that is defined in my font list.<br><br>For details on the LABEL object, see<br><a href="http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/mapfile/label">http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/mapfile/label
</a><br><br>Hope it helps,<br>Tim<br><br>LAYER<br> NAME "Roads"<br> TYPE ANNOTATION<br> STATUS ON<br> TEMPLATE "no template"<br> TOLERANCE 7<br> DATA "path/to/data"<br> LABELITEM "NAME"
<br> CLASSITEM "SYMBOL"<br> CLASS<br> EXPRESSION "1"<br> NAME "US Highway"<br> LABEL<br> TYPE TRUETYPE<br> FONT "verdana"<br> ANGLE AUTO
<br> PARTIALS FALSE<br> POSITION UC<br> SIZE 7<br> BUFFER 25<br> MINDISTANCE 250<br> COLOR 20 20 80<br> OUTLINECOLOR 200 200 180<br> END<br>
END<br> CLASS<br> EXPRESSION "2"<br> NAME "State Route"<br> LABEL<br> TYPE TRUETYPE<br> FONT "verdana"<br> ANGLE AUTO<br> PARTIALS FALSE
<br> POSITION UC<br> SIZE 7<br> BUFFER 25<br> MINDISTANCE 250<br> COLOR 20 20 80<br> OUTLINECOLOR 200 200 180<br> END<br> END<br> CLASS<br> EXPRESSION "3"
<br> NAME "Major Arterial"<br> LABEL<br> TYPE TRUETYPE<br> FONT "verdana"<br> ANGLE AUTO<br> PARTIALS FALSE<br> POSITION UC<br> SIZE 7
<br> BUFFER 25<br> MINDISTANCE 250<br> COLOR 20 20 80<br> OUTLINECOLOR 200 200 180<br> END<br> END<br>END<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-Clark Endrizzi
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