[mapserver-users] Still impossible to force labels inside their polygons?

[Rahkonen Jukka]

Hi,

Thank you for the answer. A little screenshot shows an example with two label points  inside one polygon and one polygon without a label point at all. Perhaps we could have more accurate polygon label positioning on our wish list.

-Jukka Rahkonen-


Lime, Steve D (DNR) wrote:

> Aihe: RE: [mapserver-users] Still impossible to force labels inside their
> polygons?
> 
> Yes, still impossible. POSITION CC + MINFEATURESIZE AUTO will get you
> close. However, MINFEATURESIZE AUTO uses bounding box checks and
> doesn't intersect a feature geometry with its label geometry.
> 
> Steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-
> bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Rahkonen Jukka
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 9:17 AM
> To: 'Mapserver-Users (mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org)'
> Subject: [mapserver-users] Still impossible to force labels inside their
> polygons?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is the short answer by Stephen Woodbridge "No" in the tread http://osgeo-
> org.1560.n6.nabble.com/force-labels-to-fit-in-polygons-td4549296.html
> still valid?
> 
> I have been trying to label a polygon dataset with Mapserver 6.2 beta2 and
> some labels keep on falling outside their polygons.  By the way, the thread
> contains an advice that does not work for me:
> " By the way, PROCESSING "LABEL_NO_CLIP=ON" will fix the label point at
> the polygon center.
> -SteveW "
> 
> Is the solution to create a new layer with point-on-surface function and label
> then this point layer?
> 
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
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