Fanned labels (if I understand correctly what you mean by that) can only be achieved, I believe, when using a global optimization over all the labels to be rendered for the current map, which is not the way we do it actually, i.e. for a given label we are only constrained by the labels that have been previously rendered, and completely ignore all the labels that might be coming afterwards.<div>
<br></div><div>Global optimization of label placement is not in the scope of this RFC, and would be sufficiently disruptive that the current design decisions are irrelevant imho.<br><br>--</div><div>thomas</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 17:53, Bob Basques <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Bob.Basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us">Bob.Basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">This seems like it might be overlapping technically with the idea of building fanned labels for stacked, or closely situated features. Should/could this be added in as a design element now, or is this better off on it's own as a separate process? Seems like all the same sorts of problems would arise when developing for fanned labels.</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">Maybe it's just the naming of things that's throwing me off, and we're both talking about the same thing. Coming from a CAD background Leaders mean something specific, as in, I have control over where a set of descriptors might be listed. A draftsman might list all the label call outs down one side of a sheet and use leaders to each of the map features they are trying to label for example.</font> </p>
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>>> thomas bonfort <<a href="mailto:thomas.bonfort@gmail.com" target="_blank">thomas.bonfort@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> </p>
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devs,<br><br>please have a look and comment on<br><a href="http://mapserver.org/trunk/development/rfc/ms-rfc-81.html" target="_blank">http://mapserver.org/trunk/development/rfc/ms-rfc-81.html</a><br><br>best regards,<br>
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