[mapserver-dev] Labeling enhancements

Steve Lime Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us
Thu May 28 11:54:19 EDT 2009


I think REPEATDISTANCE is much more intuitive if we have to define another distance parameter.

Steve

>>> On 5/28/2009 at 10:00 AM, in message <4A1EA70B.1050702 at mapgears.com>, Daniel
Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
> Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>> I like the overall idea. What about using MAXDISTANCE as the repeat 
>> keyword, but REPEATDISTANCE might be a little more intuitive.
>> 
> 
> I guess that could work too, but with MAXDISTANCE it's not as obvious 
> that the keyword triggers the repeat behavior... it took me a few 
> seconds to picture how MAXDISTANCE could be interpreted to mean that we 
> repeat the labels at that interval.
> 
> I'm easy on the keyword anyway, so if a majority thinks this is better 
> then we could go with that.
> 
> Daniel



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