Force label for tiny polygon

[Jørn Vegard Røsnes]

Hi again,

when I change the type from polygon to point, the label is always visible. 
Unfortunately I get one label for each point in the polygon. 
Not very readable :-)

cheers
Joern Vegard


On Wednesday 02 May 2007 15:21, Jørn Vegard Røsnes wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to always display the label for a tiny polygon (oil spill).
>
> I feel I've tried many configurations now in the map file, but I always
> have to zoom in (from all of Europe, to only coastline of Portugal), before
> the label is visible. Here is the current layer definition:
>
> LAYER
>      NAME "oilspill_20070502_141558"
>      CONNECTIONTYPE POSTGIS
>      CONNECTION "user=postgres dbname=konserv host=hostname port=5432"
>      DATA "poly from feature using SRID=4326"
>      TYPE polygon
>      #STATUS ON
>      #TRANSPARENCY 0
>      DEBUG ON
>      LABELCACHE ON
>      LABELITEM "timestamp"
>      CLASS
>           #TEXT ([oid]-[timestamp])
>           EXPRESSION ('[timestamp]' == '20070502_141558' AND [threshold] >=
> 0 AND [threshold] < 100)
>           LABEL
>             FONT arial
>             TYPE TRUETYPE
>             SIZE 7
>             MINDISTANCE 10
>             BUFFER 1
>             POSITION UR
>             ANGLE AUTO
>             COLOR 0 0 0
>             FORCE TRUE
>           END
> #          STYLE
> #             SYMBOL 0
> #             SIZE 6
> #             COLOR 224 64 0
> #          END
>           COLOR 224 64 0
>      END
>      PROJECTION
>         "init=epsg:4326"
>      END
> END
>
> Thanks
>
> cheers
> Joern Vegard