[mapserver-users] LABELANGLEITEM in MS 5.0 using OGR:LabelAngle for annotation layer

Tamas Szekeres szekerest at gmail.com
Wed Jun 18 10:02:08 EDT 2008


Hi,

According to
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/browser/branches/branch-5-0/mapserver/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT

You have to use in your mapfile something like:

LABEL
  ...
  ANGLE [OGR:LabelAngle]
END

Best regards,

Tamas

2008/6/18 Mike Saunt <mikesaunt at gmail.com>:
> Hi All
>
> We're trying to get an annotation layer from MapInfo format (text only now
> lines, points etc to follow) to render but to use the angle stored in the
> MapInfo feature (not from an attribute column) - we used to be able to use
> LABELANGLEITEM "OGR:LabelAngle" in v4 but v5 seems to have us stumped as the
> bindings seem to only work against fields names
>
> We also found the below in the OGR help but I can't seem to find the correct
> syntax
>
> Special OGR:Label* attributes
>
> Posted by Daniel Morissette at 2007-09-13 07:40
> This should probably be added to the docs:
>
> When using CONNECTIONTYPE OGR, there are special attributes called
> OGR:LabelText, OGR:LabelAngle and OGR:LabelSize that can be used as
> LABELITEM, ANGLE and SIZE in the label definition for your annotation layer.
> You can use that as an alternative to using STYLEITEM AUTO.H
>
>
>
>
> Anyone able to help us?
>
> Cheers
> Mike
>
>
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