[GRASS-user] Label placement mechanism in GRASS?

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 20:58 -0700, Hamish wrote:
> Nikos:
> > I am fighting to get something on the screen. I have the
> > impression that it works but I can't find the proper size
> > (in metres)?

> I am not sure if v.label.la supports this, but with v.labels you can do fontsize= and then a standard size is used for all, not based on map units.
> the idea with map unit sized labels is that street names go away when you zoom out far enough, etc.
> beware that the curl words flag sets each letter as its own geocoord label, and so will look funny if you change the zoom from the one it was generated for.

> Hamish

I can't get a "proper" size for v.label.sa in a wgs84 location. I tried
measuring but... (well, in the beginning I thought I was in a metric
location and was trying numbers around 10000! No wonder that it didn't
work;-)

So it's something like the scale dependent rendering (?)


Anyhow, I think having some auto-estimation of viewable fonts in
v.label.sa would be a starter value from which one can increase/decrease
the font size in order to get the desired font size.