How to label counties in Mapserver?

Question

I'm fairly new to Mapserver and I was able to get US County boundaries to plot. Is there a way to get the County Name to plot in the center of the county? I've searched around and couldn't find any examples of doing this. Perhaps theres a better alternative that I haven't thought of. Thanks

Answer 1

You don't mention what you have tried. Using the POSITION property of the LABEL obj, you should be able to place the label in the center of the poly using a value of "cc". The center of a polygon can be a dodgy concept when you have funny shaped polys. The center could actually fall outside of the poly bounds.

Anyway, I would try this as the first, simple approach.

LABEL
    COLOR  150 150 150
    FONT "sans"
    TYPE truetype
    SIZE 6
    POSITION cc
END