[mapserver-users] label lines along path

[Stephen Lime]

I've not asked. It's a GD thing not a FreeType thing (unless FT2 supports rendering of fonts more completely that FT1).

Steve

Stephen Lime
Data & Applications Manager

Minnesota DNR
500 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155
651-297-2937

>>> Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com> 11/29/01 07:41AM >>>
Alexander,

The maporama site I don't think is using MapServer. Ideally it would be
preferable if GD lib or TTF lib libraries support labeling along a
spline or a path.

Steve Lime - have you asked them about support for such a feature?

-Steve Woodbridge

Alexander Pucher wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> after solving some problems with labeling lines using a hierachy based on importance (e.g. city streets), I have yet another question left.
> 
> Is there a way to label lines not only horizontal or by a given angle, but along a path. In a PostScript book I have, they call this method "placing text along an arbitrary path".
> 
> Consider labeling roads or even rivers that curve a lot. This might be not so important when I think of city street systems in the US, but it is when mapping cities in Europe, like Vienna,Austria, in my case.
> 
> Stephen Woodbridge sent a link to http://maporama.com/share yesterday, where you can clearly see that the street labels sometimes follow a path.
> Is this a MapServer app, and if so, how is the labeling done?
> 
> mfg
> ALEX
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