[Mapserver-users] rotating labels

[Lowell Filak]

Specify LABEL -> TYPE as TRUETYPE & ANGLE AUTO, set LABEL -> FONT to an available truetype font, change LABEL -> SIZE to a numeric as opposed to a named size, and make sure MS is compiled with truetype 1.x along with GD being compiled with truetype 1.x.

The following message was sent by Jon Shorie <jshorie at medinaco.org> on Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:26:32 -0500.

> I have a project where I am trying to get the roadnames to follow the road (in 
> other words be rotated in the same direction as the road).  Is such a thing 
> possible.  Here is the relevant section of my .map file
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME medcocel
>   TYPE LINE
>   STATUS DEFAULT
>   DATA medcocel
>   GROUP roads
>   CLASS
>     NAME "Medina County Centerlines"
>     TEMPLATE "medcocel.html"
>     COLOR 208 159 145
>   END
> 
>   HEADER "medcocel_header.html"
>   FOOTER "medcocel_footer.html"
> 
>   TOLERANCE 5
> 
>   DUMP TRUE # allow GML export
> 
>   METADATA
>     WMS_TITLE "Centerlines"
>     WMS_ABSTRACT "Medina County Centerlines"
>     WMS_SRS "EPSG:26915"
>   END
> END # medcocel
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME medcocel_anno
>   GROUP roads
>   MAXSCALE 300000
>   STATUS DEFAULT
>   DATA medcocel
>   TYPE ANNOTATION
>   LABELITEM "ROADNAME"
>   CLASS
>     COLOR 255 255 255
>     LABEL
>       POSITION cc
>       WRAP " "
>       SIZE MEDIUM
>       COLOR 0 0 0
>     END
>   END
> 
>   METADATA
>     WMS_TITLE "County Roads"
>     WMS_ABSTRACT "County roads. (shields only)  Derived from MNDOT roads 
> layer, see http://deli.dnr.state.mn.us/metadata/full/dotrdln2.html for more 
> information."
>     WMS_SRS "EPSG:26915"
>   END
> END # county road annotation
> 
> 
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