[Mapserver-users] label angles

[Michael Smith]

That does not seem to work, I must be doing something wrong.  Here is a
portion of my map file can you or anyone tell me if this looks correct?


LAYER
  NAME "Roads"
  GROUP "roads"
  STATUS ON
  DATA "tgrds"
  TYPE LINE
  LABELITEM "street"
  CLASS
    NAME "Streets & Roads" #this title appears in legend
    #SYMBOL 'symbols/ctyhwy.gif'
    TEMPLATE "tgrds.html"
    COLOR 0 0 0 #212 208 200
    LABEL
      SIZE TINY #tinysmallmediumlargegiant
      POSITION UC
      ANGLE AUTO
      BUFFER 2 #40 how close label are to each other
      MINDISTANCE 150
      MINFEATURESIZE 30
      #FONT arial-bold
      #SIZE 12
      COLOR 0 0 0
      SHADOWCOLOR 218 218 218
      SHADOWSIZE 2 2
    END #label
  END # Class
    HEADER "tgrds_header.html"
    FOOTER "tgrds_footer.html"
    TOLERANCE 5
    DUMP TRUE # allow GML export
END # Layer

-----Original Message-----
From: mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu
[mailto:mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu]On Behalf Of Sebastian
Albrecht
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 10:32 AM
To: Michael Smith
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] label angles


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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