[Mapserver-users] label angles

[Gregory S. Williamson]

I think you need to use truetype and not bitmaps for auto angle to work.

Here is an excerpt from a file that works for me (Windows OS, MS 3.x):
NAME SSF
STATUS ON
SIZE 600 600
EXTENT 542724.08 4173551.37 557476.48 4187315.33
UNITS METERS
SHAPEPATH "DATA"
FONTSET "D:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\ssf\fonts\fonts.list"
    This is the literal path; the fonts.list file is a simple file:
arial		arial.ttf
arial-bold	arialbd.ttf
garamond	gara.ttf
garamond-bold	garabd.ttf

The fonts (arial.ttf, etc. are all in that same directory).

Then when I have a line layer:
LAYER
  NAME streets_ano1
  GROUP streets
  MINSCALE 5000
  MAXSCALE 50000
  STATUS OFF
  DATA roads
  TYPE ANNOTATION
  LABELCACHE ON
  CLASS
    COLOR 10 150 150
    TEXT ([FENAME] [FETYPE])
    LABEL
      ANGLE auto
      ANTIALIAS true
      MINFEATURESIZE 25
      MINDISTANCE 100
      POSITION CC
      TYPE TRUETYPE
      FONT arial-bold
      SIZE 9
      BUFFER 5
      COLOR 255 255 255
      OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
    END
  END
  PROJECTION
     "init=epsg:4269"
  END
END # County streets upper

Note the SIZE is a number (for trutype) and the font name is in the fonts.list file. This seems to behave as advertised.

HTH,

Greg Williamson
DBA GlobeXplorer LLC


-----Original Message-----
From:	Michael Smith [mailto:msmith at sanangelompo.org]
Sent:	Thu 11/20/2003 9:25 AM
To:	mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu; Sebastian Albrecht
Cc:	
Subject:	RE: [Mapserver-users] label angles

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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