[Mapserver-users] placing text along an arbitrary path

[Daniel Morissette]

David Mitchell wrote:
> I'd also be interested in this. Could the developers please comment on 
> this idea?
> 
> Cheers
> David
> 
> Alexander Pucher wrote:
> 
>> I've asked this already about a year ago and I'm wondering, if there 
>> is any effort/news about this subject?
>>
>> Is there a way to label lines not only horizontal or by a given angle, 
>> but along a path. In a PostScript book I have, they call this method 
>> "placing text along an arbitrary path".
>> Consider labeling roads or even rivers that curve a lot.


That would be a very interesting feature, but I'm not aware of anyone 
working on that at the moment.

There's the maptext.com guys that have talked about integrating their 
software as an extension to MapServer for improved labelling, but that 
wouldn't be free.

Daniel
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