[mapserver-users] Line labeling

[Paul Ramsey]

Stephen Woodbridge wrote:

> 1) the merging of line segments works well toward solving this problem
> BUT at the cost of pre-processing the data, which is not so bad, but a
> bigger problem is losing important geocoding information about each line
> segment like address from and to for each side of the segment.

Not if you're willing to keep two copies of the data around (as I am),
one mangled for labelling and one not, for geocoding.

> 4) having the road class also allows you to easily filter when to
> display what class of roads (I think this is already implemented - I
> will find out as soon as I get my Tiger 2000 data converted and load up
> a mapserver)

Yes, having road classes is *very* helpful for good road cartography.
Not everyone is so blessed, but you are right, it can be a godsend.


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