[mapserver-users] Label Annotation and repeatdistance

[Andrea Peri]

>REPEATDISTANCE only works with lines. What is does is to create multiple
label points
>along the line. This does not make sense for ANNOTATION layers for two
reasons:

ok,
thx for explain.
I misunderstand the mean of "repeat".

>2. annotation is deprecated in 6.2 and will be going away in the future

This is really interesting to know.
There is a better choice to write a text on a map?

Thx,


2012/9/24 Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com>

> REPEATDISTANCE only works with lines. What is does is to create multiple
> label points along the line. This does not make sense for ANNOTATION layers
> for two reasons:
>
> 1. annotation is a point, you can not repeat along a point
> 2. annotation is deprecated in 6.2 and will be going away in the future
>
> You might try creating a line feature and label that with repeatdistance.
> Or create a grid of points that you can use to position you disclaimer
> labels with.
>
> -Steve W
>
>
> On 9/24/2012 5:17 AM, Andrea Peri wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I notice the repeatdistance don't work on a label of a type annotation
>> layer.
>>
>> I read the doc.
>> Seem the repeatdistance work only with a line layer.
>> But I guess it could work also with the annotation.
>> When the goal is the put many disclaimers on a map.
>>
>> Is this an enhancement feature or a bug of the actual repeatdistance
>> command. ?
>>
>> This is my mapfile:
>>
>>    LAYER
>>      NAME "rt_ofc.10k10.disclaimer"
>>      STATUS OFF
>>      TYPE ANNOTATION
>>      TRANSFORM LL
>>      FEATURE
>>        POINTS
>>          80 -20
>>        END
>>        TEXT 'Disclaimer Map...'
>>      END
>>      METADATA
>>        "wms_title" "...."
>>        "wms_abstract" "..."
>>        "wms_layer_group" "..."
>>      END
>>      CLASS
>>        LABEL
>>          TYPE TRUETYPE
>>          FORCE true
>>          COLOR "#FFFFFF60"
>>          ANTIALIAS false
>>          PRIORITY 10
>>          SIZE 10
>>          ANGLE 0
>>          FONT "LiberationSans-Regular"
>>          POSITION UR
>>          REPEATDISTANCE 100  <--- seem don't work
>>        END
>>      END
>>    END
>>
>>
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