line labels

[Hudson, Mark (xwave)]

Hi:

 

I have a line shapefile consisting of city streets that I am trying to
label based on the attribute of street name.  I can get the labels to
appear but I am wondering how to get them to draw according to the line
angle.  That is, is there a way to get the street name (label) to draw
along side the street (line)?  Just wondering if there is a way to
automatically get the label to draw as same angle of the street as my
streets run at many different angles.....

 

Code for layer follows:

 

#layer   ******* Kingston city streets *******

      LAYER

        NAME "StreetOutlines"

        STATUS ON

        DATA "Kgn_roads_section"

        TYPE LINE

        MAXSCALE 750

        LABELITEM "road"

        LABELCACHE ON

        CLASS

          NAME "Outlines"

          STYLE

            COLOR 255 255 255

            MINWIDTH 4

          END

          LABEL

            ANGLE auto

                COLOR 0 0 0

                TYPE BITMAP

                POSITION Auto

                PARTIALS FALSE

                MINDISTANCE 100

                MINSIZE 100

                BUFFER 0

          END # end of label

        END

  

    END

 

Any comments would be helpful.

 

Thanks, Mark Hudson.

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