[mapserver-users] state label placement

[John R Frank]

Hi

I'm trying to display a US state boundaries layer that I downloaded from
nationalatlas.gov.  The labels show up many times.  Even if I crank up the
label::mindistance and label::buffer it still shows a few and they are
pushed away from the center of the state!

When I look at this layer in ArcExplorer, it looks _perfect_.  The state
labels appear once, centered in each state.

How can we achieve this with mapserver?  (we love mapserver).  My states
layer is below.

John



  LAYER
    NAME states
    TYPE POLYGON
#    TOLERANCE 3
    MAXSCALE 100000000
    MINSCALE 10000
    LABELMAXSCALE 100000000
    LABELMINSCALE 500000
    LABELITEM "state"
    CLASS
#      COLOR 190 255 190
      BACKGROUNDCOLOR 255 255 255
      OUTLINECOLOR 150 150 150
      LABEL
#        ANGLE AUTO
        COLOR 230 0 0
#       OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
        TYPE TRUETYPE
        FONT arial
        SIZE 9
        POSITION AUTO
        BUFFER 7
  #      WRAP " "
        MINDISTANCE 300000000000
      END
    END
  END


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