[Mapserver-users] polygon lable problem

[Aaron D. Hunt]

The code worked great, Thank you
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vincent Schut" <schut at sarvision.com>
To: "Aaron D. Hunt" <hunt at zedxinc.com>; <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 4:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] polygon lable problem


> Aaron,
>
> I once had the same symptoms so maybe the same problem, which I solved by
> slighly modifying the source code of mapserver. I asked the developers to
add
> this to cvs because it really seemed to improve labeling, but I don't know
if
> they'd done it, and if not, why. Maybe I should file a bug/feature request
on
> this? If one of the developers (Steve, you once mailed that you would
check
> the patch) reads this, could you be so kind to answer this?
>
> The proposed patch is in a mail thread of the mapserver-dev list. Search
the
> archives of this list for the subject "label centroid alog". You will find
> the patch there, it's quite simple, just a few lines to change. You could
do
> it by hand, just remove the lines that start with a minus sign and add the
> lines with a plus sign :-). Or use 'patch'.
> For me this change was magick: at once all my labels appeared. Hope it
does
> the trick for you too.
>
> Cheers,
> Vincent.
>
> On Tuesday 08 July 2003 18:02, Aaron D. Hunt wrote:
> > With the layer below, Mapserver seams to have a problem labeling concave
> > polygons. If you look at the image link below, there is one concave
polygon
> > in Canada that is not labeled. Is there any way to get mapserver to
label
> > the polygon.
> >
> >
> > http://wcs.zedxinc.com/dy images/cold.png
> >
> >
> > LAYER
> >  NAME weather
> >  TYPE polygon
> >  TRANSPARENCY 60
> >  LABELITEM "COLOR"
> >  DATA ""
> >  STATUS ON
> >   CLASS
> >      NAME "NAM"
> >      COLOR  47 111 111
> >      TEXT Cool/Wet
> >      LABEL
> >    force true
> >    TYPE TRUETYPE
> >    FONT arial
> >    SIZE 12
> >    POSITION cc
> >    ANTIALIAS FALSE
> >    OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
> >    COLOR 0 0 0
> >      END
> >   END
> >  END
> >
> >
> > Aaron D. Hunt
> > Technical Manager
> > ZedX Inc.
> > Voice: 814-357-8490
> > Fax:    814-357-8499
>
> -- 
> ______________________________________
> Vincent Schut
> Sarvision B.V.
> Wageningen, The Netherlands
> www.sarvision.com