[Mapserver-users] label angles

Sebastian Albrecht api at justapi.de
Wed Nov 19 11:32:17 EST 2003


Hi Michael,

> I am running IIS 5.0, windows 2000, and Mapserver 4.  Is there a way to get
> my street labels to follow the curvature of the streets? Thanks in advance.

Have a look at the Mapserver documentation.
There is the ANGLE feature within the LABEL object.
Set it to ANGLE AUTO and your labels will follow the curvature of your
streets. I think you need to have mapserver compiled with truetype
support and your layer has to be of type LINE.

Regards,
Sebastian Albrecht




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