Ok, follow up question (again, sorry for asking here but thanks for the help).<br><br>I'm not a mapper myself.<br><br>Anyway, for my current shape file I have this defenition:<br><span style="font-style: italic;"> LAYER</span>
<br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> NAME slc_major_roads</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> TYPE LINE</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">
STATUS ON</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> DATA "utah_data/slco_major_roads_new.shp"</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> CLASS
</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> NAME "SLC Major Roads"</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> STYLE</span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;"> SYMBOL "circle"</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> SIZE 7</span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;"> COLOR 0 0 0</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> END</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">
STYLE</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> SYMBOL "circle"</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> SIZE 5
</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> COLOR 255 255 0</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> END
</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> #STYLE</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> # SYMBOL "dashed"</span>
<br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> # SIZE 1</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> # COLOR 0 0 0</span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;"> #END</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> END</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">
END</span><br><br>The draws some nice yellow roads (look here to see it: <a href="http://dev.naiutah.com/KaMap/cvs_version/htdocs/">http://dev.naiutah.com/KaMap/cvs_version/htdocs/</a>)<br><br>THis shape file also has the dbf file that should have the labels. So to get the labels showing would I create a second layer definition of type annotation or could I something do it within the existing layer defenition?
<br><br>Thanks,<br>Clark<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<br>