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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=641184011-17112004>Hi,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=641184011-17112004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=641184011-17112004>I'd
like to use "county names" as labels in a map. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=641184011-17112004>given
the type of morphology of the admin boundaries (mix of county shapes and length
of names quite variable, tending to be long), I need to zoom to a rather small
scale to avoid </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=641184011-17112004>names being omitted (if I keep the FORCE flag to FALSE
for the labels), or over-writing (if the FORCE flag is set to
TRUE).</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=641184011-17112004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=641184011-17112004>e.g. I
have tried activating the BUFFER option to improve the output, but I don't
observe any differences in my output...</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=641184011-17112004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=641184011-17112004>a
doubt I have first of all is that I am passing the proper labelcache assignment
via PHP mapscript.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=641184011-17112004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=641184011-17112004>$myLayer2->set("labelcache",MS_TRUE);</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=641184011-17112004></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=641184011-17112004>should I be using MS_ON or "on" instead of MS_TRUE
?</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=641184011-17112004></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=641184011-17112004>TIA for any feedback,</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=641184011-17112004>Andrea</SPAN></FONT></P></BODY></HTML>