[Mapserver-users] Positioning of labels

[Johan Antonsson]

Thanks Gerry,

The thing is that MapServer doesn't seem to do any table lookup for the
POSITION parameter (which also is in the CLASS object). I use the
precompiled Windows version of MapServer. My map set is huge with an
individual position for virtually every label, independent of class. It
seems to me that such a lookup (but in the LAYER object) would be very
useful feature. A problem might be different positioning standards.

Regards

/Johan

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Johan Antonsson
johan at antonsson.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu
[mailto:mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu] On Behalf Of Gerry
Creager N5JXS
Sent: den 16 november 2003 16:05
To: Johan Antonsson
Cc: MapServer Users
Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] Positioning of labels

I'll have to go back and play with it, but at least with a perlscript, 
you can do a quick table lookup.

Or it'd be trivial to add a database column that corresponds to what 
Mapserver uses, and is updated once from the existing dbf.

I've got labels that have to go in specific positions.  It's not that 
hard to do it once in the mapfile and go on.

gerry

Johan Antonsson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In my map sets there is information about label positions in the
> annotation layer attribute table. The positioning system is about the
> same as in the POSITION CLASS object parameter except that it uses
> numbers instead of named positions:
> 
> POSITION parameter
> ul uc ur
> cl cc cr
> ll lc lr
> 
> Position information in my .dbf file
> 7 8 9
> 4 5 6
> 1 2 3
> 
> I don't like to use the POSITION parameter since every label has its
own
> position relative to its point. What I'm looking for is a parameter in
> the LAYER object e.g. called LABELPOSITIONITEM that would refer to the
> position attribute table column. Is there such a feature in MapServer
or
> do I have to be content with POSITION=auto in the CLASS object? 
> 
> TIA
> 
> /Johan
> 
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> johan at antonsson.com
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> 
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