Check out the LABELITEM property for a layer. You'll also need to define a LABEL for your class.
Steve >>> On 8/18/2008 at 11:17 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to be able to attach text to displayed features that are coming > from postgis. Currently I am just displaying points (layer displayed below) > as an ellipse from postgis, but I would like to have text on top of each > ellipse based on the contents of a field uniquely associated to each point. > > John > > LAYER > # name of layer > NAME "gv:tasmania_cities" > GROUP "Collaboration" > > # what type of data is this? > TYPE POINT > > # always returned with interface > STATUS ON > > TRANSPARENCY 100 > > CONNECTIONTYPE postgis > > CONNECTION "user=postgres dbname=gvdb host=localhost port=5432 > password=password1117" > DATA "the_geom from tasmania_cities" > > > CLASS > STYLE > symbol "dot" > SIZE 8 > COLOR 0 0 0 > END > END > END > _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
