[mapserver-users] Line labeling

[Paul Ramsey]

It is not a pleasant solution, but it works very well. I processed my
road network so roads were not broken by intersection, and roads of a
certain name were made up of as few segments as possible. So rather than
having 12 "Main St" segments, broken at cross streets, I just had one.
This made the labelling much more aesthetically pleasing, since I would
only ever get one instance of a particular name on the map at any time.
Sorting the dataset by road length then should also give you a "by
importance" order as well, sort of.

Alexander Pucher wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> in one of our mapserver-applications, we tried to label line objects of
> a city map - no problem. We use a truetype font, autorotate and a
> minFeatureSize. The problem is, that the line segments of main streets
> between 2 side streets are often too short, so the main street is not
> labeled at all. Small side streets, which are longer than minFeatureSize
> get labeled!
> 
> Any idea, how we get the streets labeled in a correct way, let's say by
> importance??
> 
> mfg
> ALEX
> 
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