[mapserver-users] RE: Labeling issue mutli lines and precision
In response to Jay's Labeling question: I have multi line / field labels working: In this example I am stringing together both the name and the parcel id as a label, then splitting the label into two lines CLASS NAME 'Parcels' TEXT ([TXLname] * [PARCEL_ID]) #label LABEL WRAP * #select character to wrap on END #label END #class I tried using precision in the query results, I have not tried it as part of a label [item name=NORTHING precision=2] Mark Volz GIS Specialist Lyon County, MN (507) 532-8218 -Original Message- From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of mapserver-users-requ...@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:02 AM To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: mapserver-users Digest, Vol 14, Issue 80 Send mapserver-users mailing list submissions to mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mapserver-users-requ...@lists.osgeo.org You can reach the person managing the list at mapserver-users-ow...@lists.osgeo.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of mapserver-users digest... Today's Topics: 1. RE: Labeling (Jay Kapalczynski) -- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:57:39 -0500 From: Jay Kapalczynski jkapalczyn...@ci.maple-grove.mn.us Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Labeling To: 'Fawcett, David' david.fawc...@state.mn.us, mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Message-ID: d7a5eac385604446ab1dd24bf4f5a9181e06947...@mg-mail.ci.maple-grove.mn.us Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Yea I can do that but then I have to build processes to do all the converting... I want to read this data live. Anyone else have any ideas? Thanks One Last thought, don't know if I should enter a new topic... I have three labels I want to label. Right now I am using an Offset to push one above, and one below (UC, CC, LC) with offsets. And as such these are three separate layers in my app I tried to combine all three into one map file but it only labels the first one (I copied the original code in the original email and simply changed the label field)(no matter what I do it just labels the first one it reads) Can I combine these into one and still have them label on three different rows Value 1 Value 2 Value 3 Can I concatenate like this? LABELITEM 'Value 1' 'VALUE 2' 'VALUE 3' But how would I specify they are supposed to create 3 lines??? THANKS From: Fawcett, David [mailto:david.fawc...@state.mn.us] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:38 AM To: Jay Kapalczynski; mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Labeling It is always an option to create a string column and then populate it with your numbers formatted the way that you want them to appear. I am sure that you realize this, but it is something that I have done in the past. David. -Original Message- From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jay Kapalczynski Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:14 AM To: 'mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org' Subject: [mapserver-users] Labeling Is there any way to eliminate the decimal places here...I looked online but was unable to find anything. Thanks The fields I am labeling are numeric...so I get this 3434. 123. I am looking to drop all the extra decimal places... Or maybe set it to keep two 3434.00 THANKS LAYER # Maple Grove Parcels NAME Parcel_Labels DATA './parcels.shp' STATUS DEFAULT TYPE annotation MAXSCALE 2000 MINSCALE 100 LABELITEM 'EMV_LAND' LABELCACHE ON CLASS COLOR -1 -1 -1 LABEL POSITION UC TYPE TRUETYPE FONT vera_sans MAXSIZE 7 SIZE 7 OFFSET 0 10 MINSIZE 4 #ANTIALIAS TRUE COLOR 0 0 0 OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 128 BUFFER 2 END END END # Maple Grove Parcels -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/attachments/20090326/6199f92 b/attachment-0001.html
[mapserver-users] RE: Labeling issue mutli lines and precision
This works . BUT??? For some reason the 2nd and 3rd line seem indented a bit Result: 1982 19961001 $ 250854 Do you know what could be causing this indent? This is my Code: LAYER # Maple Grove Parcels NAME Parcel_Labels DATA './parcels.shp' STATUS DEFAULT TYPE annotation MAXSCALE 2000 MINSCALE 100 LABELCACHE ON CLASS TEXT ([YEAR_BUI_1] * [SALE_DATE] * [SALE_VAL_1]) #label LABEL COLOR 0 0 0 OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 128 WRAP * #select character to wrap on END #label END #class END # Maple Grove Parcels PRECISION: As for the Precision I have also done that on the query resultsdont really know if or how I can use that in the Labelingfor now I just converted the test data. But in a real world setting I am not going to be able to do that. I will be reading live... If I have to I can created another database that has links and convert it therebut would rather bypass all that additional work... THANKS EVERYONE FOR YOUR HELP IT IS GREATLY APPRECIATED THANKS MARK -Original Message- From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mark Volz Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:30 PM To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [mapserver-users] RE: Labeling issue mutli lines and precision In response to Jay's Labeling question: I have multi line / field labels working: In this example I am stringing together both the name and the parcel id as a label, then splitting the label into two lines CLASS NAME 'Parcels' TEXT ([TXLname] * [PARCEL_ID]) #label LABEL WRAP * #select character to wrap on END #label END #class I tried using precision in the query results, I have not tried it as part of a label [item name=NORTHING precision=2] Mark Volz GIS Specialist Lyon County, MN (507) 532-8218 -Original Message- From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of mapserver-users-requ...@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:02 AM To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: mapserver-users Digest, Vol 14, Issue 80 Send mapserver-users mailing list submissions to mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mapserver-users-requ...@lists.osgeo.org You can reach the person managing the list at mapserver-users-ow...@lists.osgeo.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of mapserver-users digest... Today's Topics: 1. RE: Labeling (Jay Kapalczynski) -- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:57:39 -0500 From: Jay Kapalczynski jkapalczyn...@ci.maple-grove.mn.us Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Labeling To: 'Fawcett, David' david.fawc...@state.mn.us, mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Message-ID: d7a5eac385604446ab1dd24bf4f5a9181e06947...@mg-mail.ci.maple-grove.mn.us Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Yea I can do that but then I have to build processes to do all the converting... I want to read this data live. Anyone else have any ideas? Thanks One Last thought, don't know if I should enter a new topic... I have three labels I want to label. Right now I am using an Offset to push one above, and one below (UC, CC, LC) with offsets. And as such these are three separate layers in my app I tried to combine all three into one map file but it only labels the first one (I copied the original code in the original email and simply changed the label field)(no matter what I do it just labels the first one it reads) Can I combine these into one and still have them label on three different rows Value 1 Value 2 Value 3 Can I concatenate like this? LABELITEM 'Value 1' 'VALUE 2' 'VALUE 3' But how would I specify they are supposed to create 3 lines??? THANKS From: Fawcett, David [mailto:david.fawc...@state.mn.us] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:38 AM To: Jay Kapalczynski; mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Labeling It is always an option to create a string column and then populate it with your numbers formatted the way that you want them to appear. I am sure that you realize this, but it is something that I have done in the past. David. -Original Message
RE: [mapserver-users] RE: Labeling issue mutli lines and precision
Fantasticworks... one last quick question.. Can I add actual text... THANKS A MILLIONVERY APPRECIATED... CODE: TEXT (['Land Value:' EMV_LAND_]*[ 'Building Value:' EMV_BLDG_]*['Total Value:'EMV_TOTAL_]) #label RESULT: Land Value: $45000 Building Value: $25 Total Value: $295000 -Original Message- From: Steve Lime [mailto:steve.l...@dnr.state.mn.us] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 2:26 PM To: Jay Kapalczynski; 'Mark Volz'; mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [mapserver-users] RE: Labeling issue mutli lines and precision Jay, the spaces in your TEXT expression are preserved, try removing them. Steve On 3/26/2009 at 2:00 PM, in message d7a5eac385604446ab1dd24bf4f5a9181e06947...@mg-mail.ci.maple-grove.mn.us, Jay Kapalczynski jkapalczyn...@ci.maple-grove.mn.us wrote: This works . BUT??? For some reason the 2nd and 3rd line seem indented a bit Result: 1982 19961001 $ 250854 Do you know what could be causing this indent? This is my Code: LAYER # Maple Grove Parcels NAME Parcel_Labels DATA './parcels.shp' STATUS DEFAULT TYPE annotation MAXSCALE 2000 MINSCALE 100 LABELCACHE ON CLASS TEXT ([YEAR_BUI_1] * [SALE_DATE] * [SALE_VAL_1]) #label LABEL COLOR 0 0 0 OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 128 WRAP * #select character to wrap on END #label END #class END # Maple Grove Parcels PRECISION: As for the Precision I have also done that on the query resultsdont really know if or how I can use that in the Labelingfor now I just converted the test data. But in a real world setting I am not going to be able to do that. I will be reading live... If I have to I can created another database that has links and convert it therebut would rather bypass all that additional work... THANKS EVERYONE FOR YOUR HELP IT IS GREATLY APPRECIATED THANKS MARK -Original Message- From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mark Volz Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:30 PM To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [mapserver-users] RE: Labeling issue mutli lines and precision In response to Jay's Labeling question: I have multi line / field labels working: In this example I am stringing together both the name and the parcel id as a label, then splitting the label into two lines CLASS NAME 'Parcels' TEXT ([TXLname] * [PARCEL_ID]) #label LABEL WRAP * #select character to wrap on END #label END #class I tried using precision in the query results, I have not tried it as part of a label [item name=NORTHING precision=2] Mark Volz GIS Specialist Lyon County, MN (507) 532-8218 -Original Message- From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of mapserver-users-requ...@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:02 AM To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: mapserver-users Digest, Vol 14, Issue 80 Send mapserver-users mailing list submissions to mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mapserver-users-requ...@lists.osgeo.org You can reach the person managing the list at mapserver-users-ow...@lists.osgeo.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of mapserver-users digest... Today's Topics: 1. RE: Labeling (Jay Kapalczynski) -- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:57:39 -0500 From: Jay Kapalczynski jkapalczyn...@ci.maple-grove.mn.us Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Labeling To: 'Fawcett, David' david.fawc...@state.mn.us, mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Message-ID: d7a5eac385604446ab1dd24bf4f5a9181e06947...@mg-mail.ci.maple-grove.mn.us Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Yea I can do that but then I have to build processes to do all the converting... I want to read this data live. Anyone else have any ideas? Thanks One Last thought
RE: [mapserver-users] RE: Labeling issue mutli lines and precision
Yup, but the text goes outside the column references, e.g. Land Value: [EMV_LAND_]. Steve On 3/26/2009 at 2:33 PM, in message d7a5eac385604446ab1dd24bf4f5a9181e06947...@mg-mail.ci.maple-grove.mn.us, Jay Kapalczynski jkapalczyn...@ci.maple-grove.mn.us wrote: Fantasticworks... one last quick question.. Can I add actual text... THANKS A MILLIONVERY APPRECIATED... CODE: TEXT (['Land Value:' EMV_LAND_]*[ 'Building Value:' EMV_BLDG_]*['Total Value:'EMV_TOTAL_]) #label RESULT: Land Value: $45000 Building Value: $25 Total Value: $295000 -Original Message- From: Steve Lime [mailto:steve.l...@dnr.state.mn.us] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 2:26 PM To: Jay Kapalczynski; 'Mark Volz'; mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [mapserver-users] RE: Labeling issue mutli lines and precision Jay, the spaces in your TEXT expression are preserved, try removing them. Steve On 3/26/2009 at 2:00 PM, in message d7a5eac385604446ab1dd24bf4f5a9181e06947...@mg-mail.ci.maple-grove.mn.us, Jay Kapalczynski jkapalczyn...@ci.maple-grove.mn.us wrote: This works . BUT??? For some reason the 2nd and 3rd line seem indented a bit Result: 1982 19961001 $ 250854 Do you know what could be causing this indent? This is my Code: LAYER # Maple Grove Parcels NAME Parcel_Labels DATA './parcels.shp' STATUS DEFAULT TYPE annotation MAXSCALE 2000 MINSCALE 100 LABELCACHE ON CLASS TEXT ([YEAR_BUI_1] * [SALE_DATE] * [SALE_VAL_1]) #label LABEL COLOR 0 0 0 OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 128 WRAP * #select character to wrap on END #label END #class END # Maple Grove Parcels PRECISION: As for the Precision I have also done that on the query resultsdont really know if or how I can use that in the Labelingfor now I just converted the test data. But in a real world setting I am not going to be able to do that. I will be reading live... If I have to I can created another database that has links and convert it therebut would rather bypass all that additional work... THANKS EVERYONE FOR YOUR HELP IT IS GREATLY APPRECIATED THANKS MARK -Original Message- From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mark Volz Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:30 PM To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [mapserver-users] RE: Labeling issue mutli lines and precision In response to Jay's Labeling question: I have multi line / field labels working: In this example I am stringing together both the name and the parcel id as a label, then splitting the label into two lines CLASS NAME 'Parcels' TEXT ([TXLname] * [PARCEL_ID]) #label LABEL WRAP * #select character to wrap on END #label END #class I tried using precision in the query results, I have not tried it as part of a label [item name=NORTHING precision=2] Mark Volz GIS Specialist Lyon County, MN (507) 532-8218 -Original Message- From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of mapserver-users-requ...@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:02 AM To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: mapserver-users Digest, Vol 14, Issue 80 Send mapserver-users mailing list submissions to mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mapserver-users-requ...@lists.osgeo.org You can reach the person managing the list at mapserver-users-ow...@lists.osgeo.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of mapserver-users digest... Today's Topics: 1. RE: Labeling (Jay Kapalczynski) -- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:57:39 -0500 From: Jay Kapalczynski
RE: [mapserver-users] RE: Labeling issue mutli lines and precision
GOT IT TEXT (HI [EMV_LAND_]*[EMV_BLDG_]*[EMV_TOTAL_]) #label THANKS FOR ALL YOU HELP From: Jay Kapalczynski Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 2:33 PM To: 'Steve Lime'; 'Mark Volz'; mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] RE: Labeling issue mutli lines and precision Fantasticworks... one last quick question.. Can I add actual text... THANKS A MILLIONVERY APPRECIATED... CODE: TEXT (['Land Value:' EMV_LAND_]*[ 'Building Value:' EMV_BLDG_]*['Total Value:'EMV_TOTAL_]) #label RESULT: Land Value: $45000 Building Value: $25 Total Value: $295000 -Original Message- From: Steve Lime [mailto:steve.l...@dnr.state.mn.us] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 2:26 PM To: Jay Kapalczynski; 'Mark Volz'; mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [mapserver-users] RE: Labeling issue mutli lines and precision Jay, the spaces in your TEXT expression are preserved, try removing them. Steve On 3/26/2009 at 2:00 PM, in message d7a5eac385604446ab1dd24bf4f5a9181e06947...@mg-mail.ci.maple-grove.mn.us, Jay Kapalczynski jkapalczyn...@ci.maple-grove.mn.us wrote: This works . BUT??? For some reason the 2nd and 3rd line seem indented a bit Result: 1982 19961001 $ 250854 Do you know what could be causing this indent? This is my Code: LAYER # Maple Grove Parcels NAME Parcel_Labels DATA './parcels.shp' STATUS DEFAULT TYPE annotation MAXSCALE 2000 MINSCALE 100 LABELCACHE ON CLASS TEXT ([YEAR_BUI_1] * [SALE_DATE] * [SALE_VAL_1]) #label LABEL COLOR 0 0 0 OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 128 WRAP * #select character to wrap on END #label END #class END # Maple Grove Parcels PRECISION: As for the Precision I have also done that on the query resultsdont really know if or how I can use that in the Labelingfor now I just converted the test data. But in a real world setting I am not going to be able to do that. I will be reading live... If I have to I can created another database that has links and convert it therebut would rather bypass all that additional work... THANKS EVERYONE FOR YOUR HELP IT IS GREATLY APPRECIATED THANKS MARK -Original Message- From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mark Volz Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:30 PM To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [mapserver-users] RE: Labeling issue mutli lines and precision In response to Jay's Labeling question: I have multi line / field labels working: In this example I am stringing together both the name and the parcel id as a label, then splitting the label into two lines CLASS NAME 'Parcels' TEXT ([TXLname] * [PARCEL_ID]) #label LABEL WRAP * #select character to wrap on END #label END #class I tried using precision in the query results, I have not tried it as part of a label [item name=NORTHING precision=2] Mark Volz GIS Specialist Lyon County, MN (507) 532-8218 -Original Message- From: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of mapserver-users-requ...@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:02 AM To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: mapserver-users Digest, Vol 14, Issue 80 Send mapserver-users mailing list submissions to mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mapserver-users-requ...@lists.osgeo.org You can reach the person managing the list at mapserver-users-ow...@lists.osgeo.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of mapserver-users digest... Today's Topics: 1. RE: Labeling (Jay Kapalczynski) -- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:57:39 -0500 From: Jay Kapalczynski jkapalczyn...@ci.maple-grove.mn.us Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Labeling To: 'Fawcett, David' david.fawc...@state.mn.us, mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org
