[mapserver-dev] rfc49: call for vote

Alan Boudreault aboudreault at mapgears.com
Mon Jan 19 08:05:04 EST 2009


+1

Alan

Tamas Szekeres wrote:
> +1
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tamas
>
>
>
>
> 2009/1/17 thomas bonfort <thomas.bonfort at gmail.com
> <mailto:thomas.bonfort at gmail.com>>
>
>     Hi devs,
>
>     I'd like to get this in for 5.4:
>     http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-49.html
>
>     wrapping up the comments from the review period, I think there isn't
>     any issue preventing a vote:
>
>     * possible values for LABELMETHOD (the default is to use cog) :
>     awaiting implementation, very probably postponed to after 5.4 (unless
>     Steve planned to implement this soon ?)
>
>     * labelObj for layer: implementation postponed to after 5.4
>
>     * fractional values also for pattern,gap, offset:  a good candidate
>     for 6.0 (when pattern and gap would be moved to the styleObj?)
>
>     * there was concensus for adding parametered scaling, usefull for
>     thematic mapping (eg size proportional to a feature attribute)
>       - by allowing simple expressions, eg SIZE  ( 18 + [poptotal] * ((
>     43-18)/(5000-30000))  )
>       - or by adding pseudoitems at the layer level:
>
>     PSEUDOITEM
>      'mySize' (mrange([itemname], mininput, maxinput, minoutput,
>     maxoutput))
>      'myText (commify(round([itemname], 2)) + ' ac')
>     END
>
>     LABELITEM 'myText'
>     CLASS
>      STYLE
>       COLOR 255 0 0
>       SIZE [mySize]
>      END
>      LABEL
>       ...
>      END
>     END
>
>     this enhancement will be addressed in a specific rfc.
>
>
>     best regards,
>
>     Thomas
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