[mapserver-dev] Re: ANGLE FOLLOW with MINFEATURESIZE AUTO

Alan Boudreault aboudreault at mapgears.com
Mon Oct 5 10:52:40 EDT 2009


Jeff, Could you provide a small test case of that mapfile ? I can check that 
and see if it could be improved.

Alan
 
On October 5, 2009 10:39:16 am Steve Lime wrote:
> Jeff: What does 5.4.2 give you on that mapfile?
> 
> Steve
> 
> >>> Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> 10/03/09 3:14 PM >>>
> 
> Steve Lime wrote:
> > Will see if that can be added to the 5.6 release... Steve
> >
> >>>> Raivo Alla <snaperski at gmail.com> 08/17/09 2:29 AM >>>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > is there any hope that mapserver will in the future support curved
> > labels with MINFEATURESIZE AUTO settings?
> > Would be nice to display street labels displayed only when they have
> > enough space in the line segment...
> 
> For the FOSS4G WMS benchmarking exercise, I'm trying to match MapServer
> with a GeoServer test that shows curved labels, but only for features
> that are larger than the label.  In MapServer world, this would be ANGLE
> FOLLOW with MINFEATURESIZE AUTO.  I came across the above email
> discussion because I noticed this:
> 
> - all roads curved with MapServer 5.6.0beta2:
> http://64.222.187.168/cgi-bin/mapserv560beta2?MAP=/opt/benchmarking/mapserv
> er/vector-by-merged.map&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=getmap&layers=roa
> ds-merged-labeled&STYLES=&SRS=EPSG:4269&WIDTH=950&HEIGHT=600&FORMAT=image/p
> ng&BBOX=-96.79344550384396,32.76888304968294,-96.78588564285151,32.77365769
> 873079
> 
> - minfeaturesize auto curved labels with MapServer 5.6.0beta2 (no curved
> labels are drawn):
> http://64.222.187.168/cgi-bin/mapserv560beta2?MAP=/opt/benchmarking/mapserv
> er/vector-by-merged.map&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=getmap&layers=roa
> ds-merged-labeled-minfeaturesize&STYLES=&SRS=EPSG:4269&WIDTH=950&HEIGHT=600
> &FORMAT=image/png&BBOX=-96.79344550384396,32.76888304968294,-96.78588564285
> 151,32.77365769873079
> 
> Was there a ticket for this addition (to be added for 5.6.0)?
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -jeff
> 

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Alan Boudreault
Mapgears
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