[mapserver-users] Displaying a line between objet and label

[Lime, Steve D (MNIT)]

Hi Thomas: MapServer 6.4 supports leader lines, see http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-81.html. You could also think about computing label points for the lines and using those as a point layer for labeling which might open up some options. Kinda depends on the nature of your data though. Maybe post a data sample?

Steve
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Subject: [mapserver-users] Displaying a line between objet and label

Hello,

I'm working on mapfiles featuring little linear objects, sometimes very
closed from each other. I have to label these objects with a quite long
string attribute value... Therefore, the positionning of the labels on the
line completely covers it, unless you zoom in considerably. So I'm trying to
position the labels on the sid of objects (OFFSET) but I would need a line
to be drawn automatically between each label and related object to make the
map clearer.

Has anybody already done this kind of set-up with mapfiles ? I can't find
anything in the official MapServer documentation.

Thanks for your help and advice (and sorry for my bad english) !

Thomas



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