[mapserver-dev] Label positioning around points

[Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)]

All,

Is this possibly a situation for setting up a user defined external resource file (like FONTS or SYMBOLS for setting the order via these types of 3x3 matrix definitions?  Then everyone is right (or wrong??)

Bobb



>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: mapserver-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-
>>  dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Christy Nieman
>>  Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 10:35 AM
>>  To: mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org
>>  Subject: Re: [mapserver-dev] Label positioning around points
>>  
>>  I suppose then this brings back possibly having a user-defined
>>  "Auto" order?
>>  
>>  On 09/21/2012 11:31 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
>>  > On 12-09-21 11:28 AM, Christy Nieman wrote:
>>  >> I don't think they should be skipped, but UC and LC are, in my
>>  >> experience, not ideal point label locations.  As far as I
>>  know, the 4
>>  >> corners should be considered first (specific order is open for
>>  debate
>>  >> in the reading I've done).
>>  >>
>>  >
>>  > Actually, it may just be a matter of taste, but I am of the
>>  opposite
>>  > opinion. Looking at the two images attached to #4242, I find
>>  that the
>>  > labels in position UC look better than in *L or *R positions:
>>  >
>>  > http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/attachment/ticket/4249/label-
>>  placement
>>  > -auto.png
>>  >
>>  > http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/attachment/ticket/4249/label-
>>  placement
>>  > -auto-new.png
>>  >
>>  >
>>  
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