Thanks Dave and Dan,
Pretty much both of you are kind of getting at the same ideas I had. I guess I asked in an ambiguous way because it doesn't pertain to a specific situation. The point layer specific for labeling I think it the way I'll have to go but David did touch on something interesting that I wasn't sure you could do: On your first suggestion, are you saying I could create a point feature and label it using 'TEXT'? If so, can I do this without having the point be visible? Then you mention I could use an annotation type layer instead. Does the same apply as far as being able to specify x and y cords and use a 'TEXT' clock to label? If so then that is an interesting feature! ________________________________ From: Fawcett, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 1:18 PM To: Daniel Degasperi; Nelson Soto Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Labelling It isn't exactly clear to me what you are trying to accomplish Nelson. I see two possibilities: a. If you want to create a label that is independent from the features in your data set, you can create a class with an inline feature, setting the x and y coords, and using 'text' to specify what the label text should be. You could even create this labeled feature on the fly by passing this info in as a URL configuration. If you just want to show the label, you could do this in an annotation layer instead of a point/poly/line layer. b. If you want to specify label points for your a point/poly/line layer, you could create a point dataset of your label points and then use that as the basis of an annotation layer With either of these methods, you could either specify the label position to a fixed location, like the center, or upper left position, or you could use auto and let MapServer find the best position for it. David. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Degasperi Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 11:07 AM To: Nelson Soto Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Labelling Hi, you can't give some coordinates to your label. I solved the problem by creating a point layer. Nelson Soto schrieb: Is it possible to create a label and position it with given coordinates? If I do not like the positioning of the labels, can I in any way specify my own? ________________________________ _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users -- Daniel Degasperi Software Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------- R3 GIS Srl Via Johann Kravogl 2 I-39010 Merano - Sinigo (BZ) Tel. +39 0473 494949 Fax. +39 0473 069902 Web http://www.r3-gis.com -----------------------------
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