[mapserver-users] Re: How to merge the segments of a long street

[woodbri at swoodbridge.com]

On 21 Oct 2002 at 21:33, Zhang, William wrote:

> Steve
> 
> I remember you answered similar question on the mapserver mailing
> list. But the mailing list server are down these days. Could you
> kindly give me some hint again? The question is: with tiger data, a
> long street may be divided into many small segments. The street label
> will not show until one segment is longer enough to fit the label.
> What should I do to merge those segments so that the label of the long
> street will show at high zoom level?

No, the street label will show is there is room to show it without it 
colliding with other labels. This is by design. You can limit the 
number of labels by using MINDISTANCE <value> which will prevent the 
same label from being placed on the map if it is already on the map 
and within <value> distance from another. This will declutter your 
map and allow other labels to be placed on it.

You don't need to change your data, just your map file. This is much 
easier :)

-Steve


> Thank you for your help.
> 
> 
> William Zhang
> 
> Software Engineer
> C-Cor.net
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