[mapserver-dev] rfc49: call for vote

[Steve Lime]

I think LABELMETHOD is unnecessary at this point and can be removed altogether...

Steve

>>> On 1/23/2009 at 2:58 PM, in message <497A2F64.6050402 at mapgears.com>, Daniel
Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
> If LABELMETHOD and labelObj for layer are postponed until after 5.4 then 
> I think that should be made clear in the RFC (which is tagged for 5.4), 
> or even moved to a separate RFC, otherwise it will be very hard to 
> figure out what was done in which release when devs/users look back at 
> the RFC in a few years (Yes, I do refer to old RFCs all the time).
> 
> I'm +1 otherwise.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> thomas bonfort wrote:
>> Hi devs,
>> 
>> I'd like to get this in for 5.4:
>> http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-49.html 
>> 
>> wrapping up the comments from the review period, I think there isn't
>> any issue preventing a vote:
>> 
>> * possible values for LABELMETHOD (the default is to use cog) :
>> awaiting implementation, very probably postponed to after 5.4 (unless
>> Steve planned to implement this soon ?)
>> 
>> * labelObj for layer: implementation postponed to after 5.4
>> 
>> * fractional values also for pattern,gap, offset:  a good candidate
>> for 6.0 (when pattern and gap would be moved to the styleObj?)
>> 
>> * there was concensus for adding parametered scaling, usefull for
>> thematic mapping (eg size proportional to a feature attribute)
>>    - by allowing simple expressions, eg SIZE  ( 18 + [poptotal] * ((
>> 43-18)/(5000-30000))  )
>>    - or by adding pseudoitems at the layer level:
>> 
>> PSEUDOITEM
>>  'mySize' (mrange([itemname], mininput, maxinput, minoutput,
>> maxoutput))
>>  'myText (commify(round([itemname], 2)) + ' ac')
>> END
>> 
>> LABELITEM 'myText'
>> CLASS
>>  STYLE
>>    COLOR 255 0 0
>>    SIZE [mySize]
>>  END
>>  LABEL
>>    ...
>>  END
>> END
>> 
>> this enhancement will be addressed in a specific rfc.
>> 
>> 
>> best regards,
>> 
>> Thomas
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