[mapserver-users] LABELPOLY with increased padding

[thomas bonfort]

I agree this would be an important feature to have.
For now, you should be able to hack around it by specifying the width
of the outline as twice the value of the padding you want. You do
loose the possibility of having an outline of a different color than
the fill.

STYLE
  GEOMTRANSFORM 'labelpoly'
  COLOR 0 150 220
  OUTLINECOLOR 0 150 220
  WIDTH 7
END

Note that I have not tried this, please post back with your results...

--
thomas


On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:58, Dirk Raffel <dirk.raffel at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> the documentation for the STYLE element says that LABELPOLY creates a
> polygon that covers the label with 1 pixel padding.
> Unfortunately, 1 pixel padding doesn't look too good in my case, see this
> example
> image https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B6vp23tQ3ixPM2Y1Y2VhZTEtZDQ2MC00ODVkLWFiNzEtMzM3Y2FiZDY0OGQz&hl=en_US&authkey=CJ_72NMH
> STYLE
>   GEOMTRANSFORM 'labelpoly'
>   COLOR 0 150 220
>   OUTLINECOLOR 0 150 220
> END
> Does anyone know of any workarounds to achieve a bigger padding, other than
> hacking the mapserver source?
> Are there any plans to further improve label styling in future mapserver
> releases in a way that would solve issues like this?
> Thanks,
> Dirk
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