You want to create a class in your layer and place it there. http://mapserver.org/mapfile/class.html
Like this: MAP LAYER CLASS LABEL END # end of label END # end of class END #end of layer END #end of map From: Mark Mirrlees [mailto:mmirrl...@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 3:00 PM To: Fawcett, David (MNIT); mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] label issues... Ok so I want to stick this code into the .map file... where should it be placed in the section that i bolded? LABEL COLOR 255 255 255 FONT "arial" TYPE "truetype" SIZE 10 ANGLE 0 POSITION cc FORCE false ANTIALIAS false PARTIALS false END Thanks, Mark ________________________________ From: david.fawc...@state.mn.us<mailto:david.fawc...@state.mn.us> To: mmirrl...@hotmail.com<mailto:mmirrl...@hotmail.com>; mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org> Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] label issues... Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:51:42 +0000 Mark, You will want to add a LABEL block to your mapfile. http://mapserver.org/mapfile/label.html I would also comment out the maxscale until you get the labels working. David. From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> [mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mark Mirrlees Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 2:48 PM To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org> Subject: [mapserver-users] label issues... Hi all, Ok so now I have a new problem with the labeling. I would like to get my labels to start showing up at a scale of 1:1000000 but nothing is working... here is a snippet of my mapfile... LAYER NAME 'mjcities' TYPE POINT DUMP false EXTENT -143.210462 39.001401 -50.461045 85.911094 DATA '../data/mjcities.shp' METADATA 'ows_title' 'mjcities' END STATUS default MAXSCALE 1000000 TRANSPARENCY 100 CLASSITEM 'NAME' LABELITEM 'NAME' PROJECTION 'proj=longlat' 'datum=WGS84' 'no_defs' END CLASS NAME 'mjcities' STYLE SYMBOL "circle" SIZE 15.0 OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0 COLOR 182 109 194 END Thanks, Mark
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