[mapserver-dev] Motion: change default POSITION AUTO labelling order for point layers

[thomas bonfort]

Patches graciously accepted :)
I personally have no incentive in implementing configurable positioning as
a hardcoded

6 1 5
4 X 3
8 2 7

suits all my needs.

--
thomas

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 16:30, Bob Basques <Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us>wrote:

>  All,
>
>  I know my vote doesn't count as much.  But I'm thinking the same here
> with regard to changing things.  As an alternative to changing things,
> what's the timeline on just setting up the planned MAPFILE controls instead?
>
>  bobb
>
>
>
> >>> Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
>
> I'd say -0 ... I can see in ticket #4249 that the change of order gives
> better results in that case, but I am always hesitant to change a
> built-in behavior that has been around for years as this change could
> cause side-effects for other use cases where the current order is
> better. (I have no such use case in mind, just being overly careful
> because our users don't like when we break backwards compatibility.)
>
> BTW, I love the idea of a mechanism to control the order in the mapfile.
>
> Daniel
>
>
> On 12-03-16 10:19 AM, thomas bonfort wrote:
> > Hi devs,
> >
> > We have tickets 2981, 4242 and 4249 opened to ask for a change in the
> > order which labels are placed around a label point, in order to obtain
> > better quality text placement.
> >
> > http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2981
> > http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/4242
> > http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/4249
> >
> > While the long-term solution will allow us to configure this order at
> > the mapfile level, I motion that we change this order from
> >
> >
> > 1 7 3
> > 6 X 5
> > 4 8 2
> >
> > to
> >
> > 6 1 5
> > 4 X 3
> > 8 2 7
> >
> > for the 6.2 release.
> > I'll start with my +1.
> >
> > regards,
> > thomas
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>
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